The following lists the contents of Self and Society, Volume 43 Issue 1.
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Editorial:
Authors: Kalisch, House
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FEATURES:
Author: Bazzano
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Author: Purser
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Abstract:
Based upon a first-person experience of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, this article provides a critical reflection on this clinical intervention within the context of late capitalist society. It draws inspiration from Russell Jacoby's critique of contemporary psychology, what he referred to as ‘social amnesia’, a form of collective forgetting, manifesting as a tendency to repress, forget, and exclude the larger social, historical, and political context of therapeutic interventions. With its fetishization of the present moment, MBSR is predicated on a politics of subjectivity that assumes stress is localized to the failure of the individual to regulate their emotions.
Author: Talbot
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This article is an exploration of how reconnecting with the somatic memory of pre- and perinatal life experience can bring to light and help to resolve very early wounding. In the author's experience, meditation and psychotherapy alone could not access this deep, preverbal territory. The key to peace of mind and ease of being may lay in allowing the body to remember and fully process the trauma of birth.
Author: Brazier
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In this critical article, mindfulness as understood in contemporary psychological dialogue and mindfulness in Buddhism are distinguished. Mindfulness is distinct from awareness and from consciousness, these latter not being factors of enlightenment. Their role in Buddhist faith and practice is explained. The this-worldly, hedonistic, here-and-now spirit of our times is contrasted with the transcendental, renunciant, eternity-oriented perspective of Buddhism. Such a spiritual refuge, once established, does not require ceaseless awareness or endless consciousness. The idea of dwelling in the here-and-now is examined and put in context. The value of the there-and-then, the unconscious, and longer-term perspectives is also reasserted.
Author: Chisholm
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Mindfulness is now being touted as an all-purpose solution for virtually any problem that is set before it. But is it possible that something essential might be lost when it is presented as nothing more than an effective method of stress reduction? According to Buddhism, mindfulness should be linked to morality and wisdom in order to realize its benefits fully. But following the example of Kabat-Zinn, psychotherapy may have much to gain by using it as a
Author: Greenslade
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This article explores an alternative philosophical route to contemporary mindfulness practice. Through a consideration of Hellenistic philosophy, the article argues that a Western cultural heritage has much to offer the current mindfulness milieu, which largely depends upon a singular model of secularized Buddhism. This latter approach can limit the therapeutic potential of mindfulness as an embodied practice for living. Through embracing a more complex understanding of present-moment awareness – one that is underpinned by Hellenistic philosophical practice – we encounter valuable seeds for self-transformation.
POEMS:
Author: Bazzano
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Author: Rowan
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ARTICLE:
Author: Bazzano
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This article is a reflection as well as a personal response to Islamic terrorism, psychology and the political Left. It discusses Nietzsche's notions of active and passive nihilism in response to a
CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUMS:
Author: Loewenthal
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This article reports on a conference designed to explore whether something has gone seriously wrong with the psychological therapies. While through the state's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme more people are having psychotherapy and counselling, is this through the psychological therapies becoming an industrial process requiring technicians? Is our work and training fundamentally changing with call centres, state regulation and manualization in addition to the overall ills of neoliberalism? In different ways William Morris, John Ruskin and Karl Marx saw the move from cottage industry to factory production as leading to a deterioration in working people's quality of life. Rather than the intrinsic pleasures of the work itself, instead money compensates for our working time, which leads to consumption as the external source of pleasure. Consideration is given as to whether this is also becoming increasingly true of the work of psychotherapists and counsellors, and increasingly inevitable for their working clients.
Author: de Carvalho
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Author: Johnston
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Author: McKie
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REPORTS:
Author: Scurfield
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ROOTS AND HISTORY OF HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY:
Author: Hall
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The author shares her excitement on first encountering humanistic psychology approaches in the early 1970s – a breakthrough into a new world of experience. A considered critique follows, while accentuating the liberation of the non-victim culture of that period. The author goes on to elucidate her appreciation of the training she undertook with Gerda Boyesen, with its emphasis on a respectful handling of our varying modes of defence, enabling access to our primary or natural vitality. It was this approach that led gradually to reconnection with the spiritual dimension of life that had sustained the author as a child. She concludes with an account of the growth of humanistic psychology in Norwich (UK), fortuitously arriving there at the same time as Brian Thorne in 1974.
AHP CHAIR'S PAGE:
Author: Scurfield
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NEWS INTERCHANGE:
Author: Lykou
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS:
Author: Barclay
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Author: Davies
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Author: Watts
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Author: Duffell
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ETHICAL DIALOGUES:
Author: Rogers
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BOOK REVIEWS:
Author: Dodgson-Katiyo
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Author: Brewer
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Author: Perez
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Author: Pearce
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