New Models, Paradigms etc
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- The
Ally's Secret
- An extract from Arnold Mindell's book
'The Shaman's Body'. This passage focuses
on how we can use body symptoms to meet
our ally (a concept borrowed from Carlos
Castaneda). See also Field
of Dreams: An Interview with Arnold
Mindell; A Conversation with Arnold
Mindell
- About
Gregory Bateson (The Tangled Web,
Lawrence University WI)
- Bateson is a key figure in modern
thinking about the mind, the discoverer
of the 'double bind' and an all round
good guy. Also
- Gregory
Bateson
- 'Multi-disciplinary and
trans-disciplinary resource for scholars
and other professionals' 'contributres to
develoopment of a new paradigm influenced
by a relational worldview'
- The
Body Keeps the Score
- 'Memory and the evolving psychobiology of
post traumatic stress' Important survey
of research on 'body memories' and the
physiological side of PTSD etc. See also Articles on the Web by Bessel van der Kolk
- Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence
- Important article analysing anthropological material from a Reichian viewpoint to argue that pleasure-affirming childrearing practices correlate with less violent societies.
- Bringing
About Change
- Article by Denis Postle
- Society
for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the
Life Sciences
- 'An international forum bringing together
reasearchers, theoreticians and
practitioners interested in applying
dynamical systems theory ... (etc etc)
... to psychology and the life sciences.'
Includes a 'What Is...' section!
- Chicken
Wire Mother
- 'This is about an experiment performed in
1966 by Harry Harlow, in which several
rhesus monkeys had some very bad days.'
Highly recommended site combining words
and pictures to look at not only what the
experiment tells us about the effects of
bad parenting, but the questions it
raises about a culture that will
undertake such experiments. 'Find the
Chicken Wire Mother in YOUR
Neighbourhood!'
- Cognitive
Neuroscience Encounters Psychotherapy
- Interesting and informative article by
Daniel J Siegel on the implications of
neurological memory research for
psychotherapy, especially trauma work.
- The
Double Bind
- Article by Patrice Guillaume. 'This paper
explores the double bind in two specific
types of so-called 'abnormal"
behavior - schizophrenia and borderline
personality disorder. But the power of
the double bind theory lies in its
ability to illuminate the dynamics of
communication that we consider
"normal" within organizations,
communities, and families.'
- Ecopsychology On-Line
- A large, useful site directed by Theodore
Roszak, devoted to 'the emerging
synthesis of ecology and psychology' and
'the skilful application of ecological
insight to the practice of
psychotherapy'. Only shortcoming: the
site seems to know nothing of the other
ecopsychology resources on the Net.
- Ecopsychology
- Theory and Practice
- A summary of the 'second conference on
ecopsychology at the Esalen Institute,
1994, covering topics like 'is our
consumer culture a form of
psychopathology?' and 'What is the most
effective way to encourage healthy
environmental behavior?' Among the
participants were James Hillman, Theodore
Roszak, and Ralph Metzner.
- Emotional
Competence: A Luxury or a Professional
Obligation?
- Article by Denis Postle on what it takes
to be a humanistic practitioner.
- Ruben
Feldman-Gonzalez
- Hefty lectures on Krishnamurti-inspired
approach to life and therapy. Interesting
stuff.
- The
Fourth Way: Gurdjieff Ouspensky School---
Psychology
- Lengthy outline of Gurdjieff's view of
human beings: headings like 'essence',
'personality', 'the four possible states
of human consciousness', etc
- Generic
Psychotherapy Home Page
- A web site devoted to exploring 'the
fundamental active ingredients that
operate in every form of therapy.'
Contributions are invited via a lengthy
form; William Dubin also offers his own
understandings.
- Ken
Gergen - writings
- A large number of interesting documents
by this leading proponent of 'social
contructionism' - that is, the idea that
our personal psychology is the product of
social forces - available for
downloading.
- John
Heron - Human Potential Voices!
- This site includes several important
articles by John Heron, a key figure in
humanistic psychology and psychotherapy.
See also:
- International
Centre for Cooperative Inquiry
- more Heron
- James
Hillman and Archetypal Psychology
- Important post-Jungian thinker. Also
- James
Hillman Links
- Learning/Unlearning:
an Introduction to Personal Development
- Article by Denis Postle on the interface
of
therapy/development/training/education.
- LifeWeb:
The Writings of Elisabet Sahtouris
- 'To find meaning and guidance in nature,
I integrated my personal experience of it
with those scientific accounts that
seemed to best fit it. From this
synthesis, meaning and lessons for
humanity emerged freely.' Includes
complete book, Earthdance, and other
writings.
- Loving
Presence, A Therapist's Orientation
- Latest distillation by Ron Kurtz, founder
of Hakomi. 'For me, therapy is no longer
about techniques and theories. Now it
requires that I turn inward, that I
change who I am, that I seek to become
the highest expression of who I can
be...'
- Male,
Female; The Evolution Of Human Sex
Differences by David C. Geary
- Book description, two chapters on-line,
and ordering link.
- Lloyd
deMause and Psychohistory
- 'Author of six books, deMause believes
that history runs in cycles, and that
these cycles have their ultimate origin
in common childhood, infantile, birth and
pre-birth traumas'. Several articles.
- Center
for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor
- 'Dedicated to the dissemination of papers
and research work on metaphor...from a
number of related disciplines'. A
treasure trove of articles and
bibliography.
- Metaself
- 'This site's goal is to collect and make
explicit the familiar spatial figures of
speech that help us conceptualise the
self.' Dead interesting. Based on the
work of Lakoff and Johnson.
- Myth,
Metaphor and Magic
- Article by Patrice Guillaume (32k) on
right and left brain, metaphor, first and
second order reality, etc.
- 'Reinventing
the Growth Psychology Agenda: Towards a
Therapeutic Counter-culture'
- 'Wake
Up Call for Humanistic Warriors'
- Two splendid articles by Maureen O'Hara
reasserting the radicalism of humanistic
psychotherapy:
- Personality
and Consciousness Bookstore
- Very attractively organised site giving
thumbnail accounts, with links and books
for sale, of a number of major theorists
in this field - e.g. Freud, Jung, Maslow,
Skinner, Tart, Buddhist Psychology...
- Plural
Analysis
- An enormously complex, magnificently
obscure site devoted to a development of
Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Many
multi-coloured diagrams.
- Center
for Process Studies
- 'Multi-disciplinary and
trans-disciplinary resource for scholars
and other professionals' 'contributes to
development of a new paradigm influenced
by a relational worldview'
- Psychotherapy
in the 1990s
- A very valuable critique of the managed
care system of psychotherapy controlled
by the insurance companies. By John
Martin, a Californian therapist who has
disengaged from the managed care system.
- Psychotherapy
Integration
- Artcle by George Stricker and Jerold R
Gold on the history and approach of
integrative psychotherapy, which
assimilates techniques from a range of
approaches around a basically
psychodynamic framework.
- Qualitative
Inquiry Project
- 'A continuing forum dedicated to the
exploration of alternative and innovative
analyses, methods and metaphors, and
useful resources fo0r study and
investigation of Cclinical experience.'
See also Qualitative
Research as Seen From a Batesonian Lens
- Quantum
Nonlocality
- 'Our "local realistic" view of
the world assumes that phenomena are
separated by time and space and that no
influence can travel faster than the
speed of light. Quantum nonlocality
proves that these assumptions are
incorrect, and that there is a principle
of holistic interconnectedness operating'
- Reverse
Speech
- Marvellously far out page devoted to 'a
new form of communication that has the
ability to uncover a deeper truth and
meaning behind what we are actually
speaking. As we speak consciously, the
brain is generating messages arising from
the unconscious. these messages occur
every 10 to 15 seconds and can be heard
by simply playing a recording of normal
speech in reverse.' Many Real Audio files
of famous people talking backwards!
- Rogerian
Rhetoric: An Alternative to Traditional
Argumentation
- Interesting article by Douglas Brent,
based on classroom work, suggesting that
Rogerian approaches offer a successful
method of using debate as cooperative
enquiry rather than confrontation.
- "Science
Without Bounds: A Synthesis of Science,
Religion and Mysticism"
- 'A freely-available online electronic
book that describes a world view based on
the insights of the mystics, compatible
with science's way of knowing.'
- The Seduction of Madness
- Summary of book by Dr Edward Podvoll, founder of Windhorse, about his approach to healing psychosis from a Buddhist perspective.
- Self/Person/Personal
Identity
- Extensive bibliography of writings in
this area, mainly academic. Divided into
subsections - e.g. 'embodiment, self and
personal identity'; 'feminism and gender
theories'.
- Serendip
Home Page
- 'A gathering place for people who suspect
that life's instructions are always
ambiguous and incomplete ....an expanding
forum and a continually developing set of
resources to explore and support
intellectual and social change'
- Spirit
of Now
- Home page of Peter Russell, author of The
Global Brain Awakens, etc. Material on
Mind Maps, How To Be A Wizard, and much
more.
- Spirituality
and Western Psychology
- Article on links and differences between
the two, with special reference to
humanistic and transpersonal psychology,
brain research, and the unconscious.
- Dr. Charles T. Tart Home Page and Virtual Library
- Charles Tart is a leading researcher into altered states of consciousness, ESP, etc., and a number of his papers and articles are available here.
- Nick Totton
- Writings on aspects of therapy and being,
including bodywork, incarnation, state
and process in psychotherapy, Freud's
Nose and the Turing Test.
- Transference
as an Interactive Field
- Collaboration between Marvin Spiegelman,
a distinguished Jungian analyst, and
Victor Mansfield, a physicist.
Cross references
- Geometry
of Psychological Space
- Integrative
Psychosynthesis
- Society
for Constructivism in the Human Sciences
- Somatic
Trauma Therapy
- Trauma
Treatment Manual
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