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Freud’s Medusa

by Thomas Moore

Freud’s Medusa Freud's Medusa

The Body in the Trees | poems about marriage, children and illness.

by Roxane Beth Johnson

The Body in the Trees | poems about marriage, children and illness. The Body in the Trees | poems about marriage, children and illness.

Growing New Edges | The History and Future of Humanistic Psychology

by Ilene Serlin

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Breaking Through My Stride | Running as Being

by Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Breaking Through My Stride | Running as Being Breaking Through My Stride | Running as Being

The Shared Experience of Solitude

by David T. McCarty

The Shared Experience of Solitude The Shared Experience of Solitude

Issue 7 | December 15, 2011

by Jason McCarty December 14, 2011
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I enjoy the Dasein Project the most when there is a variety.  In this issue we have a bit of that, with some art, writing, and video. The collaborative art of  Schmitt Hall Studios provides a haunting reality to being and offers a deeply felt presence.  Richard Bargdill’s Part II of an essay he wrote [...]

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Neighborhood Film Co. | Our Story

by Neighborhood Film Co. December 14, 2011
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Note: Be sure to watch video below! Walk down any block suffering from economical distress and you’ll find reoccurring themes of addiction, violence, and neglect. For us, there are two options: Move far away and pretend it doesn’t exist or move in close and be apart of the change. We have decided to move in [...]

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Schmitt & Hall Studios

by Schmitt & Hall Studios December 14, 2011
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The following are images of paintings done in collaboration between Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt.  Ron and Ric paint on the same painting at the same  time with no discussion before-hand as to what they are going to paint.  Here are some images showing them at work.  See a gallery of their images below and their [...]

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Sterile Treatment

by Lee Vance December 14, 2011
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The inpatient unit where I work is not unlike any other clinic or health facility, set with decades old white washed walls and colorless decor. Walking in, I hurry my pace and refrain from inhaling the burning aroma of disinfectant. Antiseptics and sparkling clean floors should, intuitively, bring about a sense of safety in reminding [...]

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Same Project: Psychologist, Artist, and Client | Part II

by Richard Bargdill December 14, 2011
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This is part 2 of a piece Richard Bargdill wrote for the Dasein Project on October 15, 2011. Client and Artist (cont.) 7. Clients and artists must resist urge to judge one’s self or the piece before the work is finished. One of the great gifts of a phenomenological education is the concept of bracketing. [...]

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Sigmund Freud | Issue 6 | December 1, 2011

by Jason McCarty December 1, 2011
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Part of why I wanted to focus on Freud was because of the magnitude of his influence on our lives, our culture, and how we think.  One piece to the Dasein Project that we have sort of hit on and sort of haven’t is the power of paradigm shifts and this is something I respect [...]

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Freud’s Medusa

by Thomas Moore December 1, 2011
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Most of us are probably familiar with traditional images of terrifying goddesses or women of myth. Kali in India, the fierce goddess with bulging eyes, multiple weapons and long, red, protruding tongue is one, and the more fanciful, perhaps less terrifying Sheila-na-gig from Ireland and England is another. Through a Freudian lens Kali’s tongue could [...]

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The Cinematographic Freud

by Adam Blum December 1, 2011
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Peter Fuller’s Psychoanalysis and Art (1980), which looks psychoanalytically at four major art works and their corresponding historical movements, is fortunately as vivid and instructive a history of psychoanalysis as it is of art history.  Motivated at least in part by his own analysis, Fuller traces developments in both the production and criticism of art [...]

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Everyday Life and Imperial Thoughts

by Jason Wakefield December 1, 2011
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  Sigmund Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life was one of the most widely translated works of German psychology in the last century. This psychoanalytic and clinical approach to analyzing psychopathological cases has been superseded by advances in neuro-science and must be considered in terms of its historical and sociological context. Despite the century of thought that [...]

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The Thanatos Magnet

by David Gatta December 1, 2011
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The Use of Contemporary Kleinian Ideas to Find the Beginning: Some Thoughts on Freudian Death Drive. Both the beginning and the end of our lives put us closer in some ways than we have ever been to death. These time points constitute bookends for the middle. In the middle we disavowal endings so that we [...]

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Issue 5 | The Human Body | November 2, 2011

by Jason McCarty November 1, 2011
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The Human Body.  What a huge topic.  So many directions to go, and yet these 5 women have contributed pieces that intertwine.  I am going to let you explore their pieces and experience a full gestalt that it is the human body through words.  Stories about family, pain, death, beauty, dancing, movement, and being.  These [...]

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Men, Their Bodies, & Death

by Jason McCarty November 1, 2011
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I find it interesting that no men submitted a piece for this issue on the Human Body.  Is this just coincidence?  I dont’ think so.  So why then?  Well, it is certainly not very masculine to speak of one’s body.  I think men experience a lot of shame about their body in their own ways. [...]

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The Body in the Trees | poems about marriage, children and illness.

by Roxane Beth Johnson November 1, 2011
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  First Story of Marriage With a misread line from Richard Hugo In your hands, I am twelve small stones you throw at your giant in the yard. I am in a redwood tree in the high winds where I’ve grown into an owl’s dress. My changes are frightening, you say, but my beak conceals [...]

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The Girl Who Befriended Her Scapegoat

by Debbie Devine November 1, 2011
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A Tale To Transform Body Image Warning: What you are about to read is the sort of writing that happens when you cross a former preschool teacher, radio storyteller with a psychotherapist specializing in food and body image issues. Let’s put down the academic articles for a moment and tell a story instead. If you [...]

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This Tribal Dance

by Stacy Barton November 1, 2011
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In this tribal dance of motherhood that disrupts the pattern of my breath, my own secret places bring forth daughters. Wildly demanding   all of me and more, they move from the fullness at my breast to their rites of passage. Their flow of blood and passion   seals with ceremony in my soul, their [...]

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The Human Body | Death & Beauty

by Lisa Basquez November 1, 2011
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I, like most, had never given much thought to my body outside of what it could do for me.  I treated it poorly often and used it carelessly.  I counted on it to be available for me whether I’d given it what it needed or whether I’d neglected it.  It wasn’t until I came face [...]

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Action Stories | an exploration of movement and story

by Ilene Serlin November 1, 2011
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Note: This piece was a contribution by Ilene Serlin to the book Healing Stories: The Use of Narrative in Counseling and Psychotherapy  Edited by Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, and Leslie Gray; published by Puente: Charlottesville, VA: 2007. Growing attention is being paid to the use of narratives for healing (Feinstein & Krippner, 1988; May, 1989; [...]

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Issue 4 | October 15, 2011

by Jason McCarty October 15, 2011
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This issue presents some more interesting articles.  I love the variety that shows up here.  Jason Wakefield has brought more of his very interesting and complicated philosophical material in Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou’s Fine Armour of Axioms.  Richard Bargdill intertwines some personal, professional, and psychological material in Same Project: Psychologist, Artist, Client. Jacqueline Simon [...]

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Growing New Edges | The History and Future of Humanistic Psychology

by Ilene Serlin October 15, 2011
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This article is a reprint from the Journal of Humanistic Psychology XX(X) 1–4 © The Author(s) 2011 Sage Publication:  http://www. sagepub.com Abstract Since much of humanistic psychology’s agenda has been taken up by mainstream psychology and culture, the question of whether humanistic psychology is relevant today is critical.This article draws on Maslow’s description of “sickness [...]

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Breaking Through My Stride | Running as Being

by Jacqueline Simon Gunn October 15, 2011
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In discovering self-consciousness Descartes proclaimed “I think, therefore I am.” To explain the experience of self-consciousness in such a manner presupposes that the mind and body are separate. This however, remains to be seen and is a constant debate within philosophical circles. Are the mind and body separate and does the existence of one preclude [...]

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