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Eugene: Thank you for responding with a mention of your book. In following the links in Chris Green's syllabi postd on the Div 26 Teaching Resource page, I saw a very thoughtful and incisive article by you published in American Psychologist 2000 on the developing a new understanding of the history of psychotherapy. In courses I'm developing, in the areas of Critical Thinking in psychology as well as History of Psychology, I'm interested in fostering careful thinking of this sort, rather than just doing a "memorize the names and dates", or "Psychology from the time of the Greeks", etc. approach. If you have any other articles, especially in the broader development of psychology rather than just psychotherapy I would appreciate it. Also, this new listserv doesn't give us a place to access the personal emails; if you would be willing I would like to contact you offline about this. Thank you. I can be reached here drdelia at gmail dot com

See David Levy&#B9;s recently revised book on critical thinking.
I will forward this to Eugene Taylor for suggestions regarding history of psychology.
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Subject: Society for Humanistic Psychology

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Thanks, Tom, for the tip on David Levy. Great reading!

Cross post from SPSSI

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 Please find below a request for comment from the APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation. A website link is provided for comments; due date is March 22, 2010.

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REQUEST FOR COMMENT - PROPOSED ACCREDITATION POLICES



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From Ilene Serlin:

Thanks to Michael Price for the article, "Disputing a Slam Against Psychology," reviewing critical reactions to the article by Baker, McFall, and Shoham, which attacked psychology practitioners for failing to base their treatments on scientific evidence.


I would add the criticism that empiricist-objectivist types like Baker et al. conflate science with Scientism--the epistemological presupposition that the methodology of the natural sciences gives the only access to truth and valid knowledge. What is needed in this Age of the Quick Fix is serious philosophical questioning about the kind of knowledge and "evidence" that is appropriate for guiding the therapeutic approach to the depths of a suffering human soul.


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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Zeno Franco <zeno.franco@gmail.com> wrote: > http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/303/1/47?home
>

I am glad to see this kind of response. Members of my department were overjoyed that Baker, McFall, and Shoham finally spoke up in the name of good science against practitioners and those without a proper reverence for hard nosed quantitative research.

On a personal note, when I was at Duquesne, I had a conversation with a professor who admonished that I should not think or speak about viewpoints like phenomenology as "alternative" views, as "we" had been accepted by the mainstream (in other words, my language was considered perpetuating a myth). Since my time in graduate school I have worked at 3 clinics and 3 institutions of higher education. Of all the people I have worked with, 1 individual was a "humanist," ALL the rest were "empiricist-objectivist types." I now work in a department that offers the only course in positive psychology in the entire state of NJ and I am still viewed as a
"practitioner" (which is code for non-scientist), and a nostalgic dreamer preoccupied with the old guard of psychology. Most recently I gave a paper on Winnicott and Kohut to the faculty member who teaches positive psychology and his response to the article was a snide and giggly "I remember that stuff".... I am currently prepping a course on critical thinking and all of the books I have reviewed for potential adoption basically tow the empiricist-objectivist line. They each note that those critical of quantitative research are pseudoscientists. These are the books that teach would be psychologists how to think?

Eugene


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Hi all,

I have had a request for a humanistic therapist in the metro DC area. Please e-mail me back channel with any suggestions you may have and I will forward them on.

Thanks much! -Sara
sbridges@memphis.edu

Folks,

I was in a rush yesterday and didn't elaborate on this beyond the subject line, which I am not sure displays with this system.

There is a new study out that finds that antidepressant medications are ineffective for all but the most severe cases of depression.
Being heralded as explaining the very divergent results of prior
studies.

The link to the JAMA article is below. If you don't have access, I can email the pdf back channel.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/303/1/47?home

Best,

Zeno

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Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM
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The VII Annual SOCIAL THEORY FORUM*
*Call for Papers*
*Critical Social Theory: *
Freud & Lacan For the 21st Century**
*April 7 and 8, 2010*
University of Massachusetts Boston*

*
Dear Colleague,

I\m pleased to tell you about an exciting conference coming up April 7-8, 2010 at the University of Massachusetts, Critical Social Theory: Freud & Lacan for the 21st Century.

A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE MEETING APPEARS BELOW. I encourage you to participate in this meeting by submitting a ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT as an email attachment to the Chair of the Organizing Committee, Professor Siamak Movahedi at SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com no later than February 9, 2010.

The Social Theory Forum (STF) is an annual conference organized by the University of Massachusetts, Boston in order to creatively explore, promote and publish cross-disciplinary social theoryaand to develop new, integrative theoretical structures and practices.

The 2010 meeting welcomes submissions in feminist theory, queer theory, literary criticism, social linguistics, conversational analysis, philosophy of mind, etc. that critically engage and interrogate Freud or Lacan. Conference organizers ask authors to submit a one page-page abstract as an email attachment to SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com no later than February 9, 2010.

Upon selection and notification of approval by the organizing committee, submitters must send completed presentation paper manuscripts (around 12-15 double-spaced pages in Times12 typeface) by March 22, 2010. As in previous years, papers will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees for publication in a volume based on the conference.

PLEASE SEND YOUR ABSTRACT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to Professor Movahedi at SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com.

Best regards,
Richard Koenigsberg*

*Sponsors*

*Sigmund Freud Foundation Museum & Library, Vienna*
*University of Rome Tor Vergata, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy*, *Rome** Clark University Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures,* *Worcester** City University of New York Department of Sociology, New York
Boston College Department of Sociology & Psychoanalytic Studies,* *Chestnut Hill**
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis & The Institute for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture*
*Brunel University School of Social Sciences*, *London*

*Organizing Committee*

*Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D. (Committee Chair*) Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston; Professor of Psychoanalysis and the director of the Institute for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
*Samuel Binkley, Ph.D. *Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emerson College *Neal Bruss, Ph.D. *Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston
*Patricia Clough, Ph.D. *Professor of Sociology and Women Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
*Jorge Capetillo, Ph.D. *Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
*Lewis Kirshner, M.D. *Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Faculty Boston Psychoanalytic Institute
*Glenn Jacobs, Ph.D. *Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
*Murray Schwartz, Ph.D. *Professor of Psychoanalysis and Literature, Emerson College; Scholar Member, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute

*This year\s conference in April 7th & 8th of 2010 at the University of Massachusetts Boston will explore the relationship between psychoanalysis and critical social theory. From its very beginning Sigmund Freud\s psychoanalysis has walked the border as a kind of fugitive discipline in academia yet one multifarious in its influence on the mainstream. Surely the welter of hostile and critical responses accompanying its trajectory in the history of ideas bears a kind of testimony to its rich intellectual underpinning. In sociology it has had a creative influence on critical theorists such as Herbert Marcuse, Eric Fromm, and others of the Frankfurt School, and now has engaged feminist theorists, post-structuralists and other sociologists interested in the way in which unconscious processes figure in the construction of hierarchical social relations.*

*Jacque Lacan\s French reading of Freud comes particularly close to the sociological imagination. His theory of the symbolic order and the linguistic precursors of the unconscious have added additional dimensions to the discourse of social theory. His notion of the decentered and alienated self rooted in the intellectual culture of Emile Durkheim, Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude L&#E9;vi-Strauss and Michel Foucault find its corollaries in the writings of sociologists and philosophers such as George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, and Erving Goffman. This year\s Social Theory Forum provides an opportunity for a re-examination and discussion of these fertile intellectual domains for a new cross-disciplinary pursuit of scholarship in social theory. The conference organizers seek papers that employ rigorous analyses and interpretations of the past and present of these intellectual engagements that form the foundation of modern social theory. *

*Papers in feminist theory, queer theory, literary criticism, social linguistics, conversational analysis, philosophy of mind, etc. that engage and interrogate Freud or Lacan are all welcomed.*

*The conference will feature both invited and submitted papers and presentations. We welcome submissions from scholars and graduate students in humanities and social sciences and as well as from writers in allied disciplines. We ask that authors submit a one-page abstract as email attachment (MS Word Format) to
SocialTheoryAbstracts@libraryofsocialscience.com no later than February 9, 2010. Upon selection and notification of approval by the organizing committee, submitters must send completed presentation paper manuscripts (around 12-15 pages, preferably double-spaced in Times 12 typeface) by March 15, 2010. We are in the process of securing a publishing venue for selected papers. As in prior years, the papers will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees for possible publication. Details will be announced before the conference. *

*About the Social Theory Forum*
*Department of Sociology*
*University of Massachusetts Boston*

*The Social Theory Forum (STF) is an annual conference organized jointly by the sociology, other departments, institutions, interested faculty and students at University of Massachusetts Boston in order to creatively explore, develop, promote, and publish cross-disciplinary social theory in a critical framework. STF offers faculty and students of UMass Boston and other area colleges and universities an interactive medium to discuss various aspects of the way in which particular theoretical traditions can be relevant to present everyday issues, as well as to the current state and the future of social theory.*

*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa** Correspondence address*
*Attn.: Social Theory Forum*
*Department of Sociology*
*University of Massachusetts Boston*
*100 Morrissey Boulevard*
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3rd Annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
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The American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) announces its third annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology to be held on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, from 8:00am to 6:00pm, in San Diego, California. This one-day Institute will target approximately 30 mid-career women psychologists who are APA members and who work full time in academic or academic medicine settings.
 
The overall mission of the CWP Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology is to empower, prepare, and support women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional and organizational life and to increase the diversity, number, and effectiveness of women psychologists as leaders. The program’s mission supports APA’s goal to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.
 
The CWP Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology has several objectives:
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> Dear colleagues and friends,
>
> We are delighted to announce that the SPR Asilomar 2010 conference
> website can now be reached through the SPR homepage
> http://www.psychotherapyresearch.org by clicking on the conference
> logo, or directly at
>
http://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/displ...=1&subarticlenbr=25
7.
> The 41st International SPR conference will be held at the spectacular
> ocean front venue - Asilomar - located south of Monterey California,
> from June 23-27, 2010. For your own personal tour of Asilomar,
> California, by local host George Silberschatz, be sure to click on
> the California map located on the conference website home page - a
> beautiful experience awaits you. The conference submission module
> will be open on November 1 2009 (closes December 1 2009) and complete
> information regarding the conference theme and submission procedures
> is currently available on the Asilomar conference website.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you all at Asilomar this June,
>
> Lynne Angus, SPR Program Chair : prog2010@yorku.ca
> George Silberschatz, Asilomar Local Host : spr2010@sbcglobal.net
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