Constructivism in the Human Sciences back issues from January 2006:
Editorial
Jan 01, 2006; ... Michael Mahoney, founder of Constructivism in the Human Sciences, came to Salve Regina University in September 2005 as my replacement as I phase out of the graduate degree I founded in Holistic Counseling in 1983. Having sought unsuccessfully for someone to take over as editor he asked me. I ...
Personal Growth in and Beyond Therapy1
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Today it is no longer surprising to talk of incorporating Buddhist ideas and practices in psychotherapy. However, the main focus of this incorporation has been on using meditation as an adjunct to therapy, but usually divorcing meditation from its valuable Buddhist philosophical ...
Mind and Mental Health Based on a Realistic Constructivism
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract This essay concerns a philosophical examination of the nature of mind and the relevant implications for mental health. Traditionally, realism and constructivism are regarded as two contrastive positions in explaining the nature of mind. While realists take discovery of reality ...
Empiricism in Psychiatry's Post-Psychoanalytic Era: Contemplating DSM's "Atheoretical" Nosology
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract The publication of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980 marked an epistemological turn within the American Psychiatric Association that rejected its interpretivist tradition in favor of a research and practice agenda ...
Conceptualizing the Efficacy of Mindfulness of Bodily Sensations in the Mindfulness-based Interventions
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract One of the most significant developments in psychotherapy over the past several years is the advent of the Mindfulness-based Interventions (MBIs). Essentially the introduction of Pali Buddhist mindfulness practices into cognitive therapy, the MBIs appear to be significantly more ...
Integral Research: A Multi-Method Approach to Investigating Phenomena
Jan 01, 2006; ... "Each of the important methodologies (from empiricism to collaborative inquiry to systems theory) are actually types of practices or injunctions-in all cases, they are not just what humans think, but what humans do-and those practices therefore bring forth, enact and illumine a particular ...
The Hegemony of "Empirically Supported Treatment": Validating or Violating?
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract This article explores the hegemony that the Empirically Supported Treatment (EST) movement has exerted on the field of psychotherapy in the last decade. We begin by discussing epistemology and the role of empiricism in inquiry. We then provide an overview of the EST movement and ...
Constructivism and Archetypes: A Search for Eternal Wisdom
Jan 01, 2006; ... This article examines the relationship between Jungian psychology and the Constructivist approach to life and the psychotherapeute process. In it, we discuss archetypes as natural phenomena, existing both within the individual psyche, and in the outer world. We also discuss how our understanding ...
Synchrony: A Core Concept for A Constructivist Approach to Psychotherapy
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Synchrony is a pervasive concept relevant to diverse domains in physics, biology, and the social sciences. This article reviews some of the evidence both from natural and human systems. Our main focus is on the role of synchrony in psychotherapy research. Its association with ...
Notes from Big Sur: the Evolution of Gestalt Conference at Esalen
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Our human capacity for productive relationships is at the core of much contemporary philosophical inquiry, research in neuropsychology, visionary politics and many forms of the healing arts. Gestalt has offered a holistic theory for understanding human process. It posits that we ...
Conversing Universe
Jan 01, 2006; ... Paper and books sprawl across the desk. More piled on the chair Even more slipped beside the desk. Hidden discretely Like e-mail lurking within the in-box Of the computer: Unsorted, Unanswered. Little fossils of time, questions, ...
Choosing Love Over Fear
Jan 01, 2006; ... An example of choosing love over fear can be found in the life of the Swiss-born physician, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose groundbreaking book, On Death and Dying, not only opened a generation to a more humane and dignified approach to death, but her devotion to facing the inevitability of death ...