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Organizations
Association
for Humanistic Psychology
Includes materials advancing humanistic psychology, and calls for the removal of humanistic psychologies from the
medical model, industrialized healthcare, and mainstream
organizations such as the APA. Through the Humanistic
Psychology Learning Community one can access a number of
position papers and archival,
historical and bibliographic resources on humanistic psychology
including the Old Saybrook 2 Conference Proceedings.
National
Coalition of Mental Health Professionals & Consumers
The NCMHPC's goal is threefold: to expose problems and
abuses of managed care, to bring about regulation of the managed
care industry, and to promote pro-patient, pro-quality
alternatives that preserve a patient's right to choice, personal
privacy and control over treatment.
Division
of Psychoanalysis (39)
The website of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American
Psychological Association (APA) whose purposes are to promote
understanding and interest in psychoanalysis in the professional
community and the general public. Includes information on
Section IV (Local Chapters).
Dallas
Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
A local chapter of Division 39. The website contains news and
information about the society's activities, current and back
issues of the society's newsletters, and links.
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Philosophy
Applied Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and practice of interpretation and
becomes the basis for a philosophical approach to the analysis of
human understanding and behavior. This website is dedicated
to exploring applications of hermeneutical theory across different
disciplines, offering a variety of theories by leading figures in
the field as well as articles and links.
Center
for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Inc.
Website providing information for those interested in
phenomenology, including graduate school programs, specialty
bibliography, texts of major figures in phenomenology, additional
links, and publishing outlets.
Epistemology
Research Guide
Provides a convenient list of online resources for those
working in contemporary analytic epistemology, which is the study
of the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge. Some believe
that an individual's personal epistemology is a central aspect of
psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Michel Foucault
Created by Clare O'Farrell, this is an extensive resource on the famous French thinker Michel
Foucault, and on research and publications inspired by his
work. It contains a comprehensive bibliography of Foucault's
work, including list of available works that have been translated
into English.
About
Foucault.info
A repository of articles pertaining to Michel Foucault, offering texts,
and documents written by Foucault, as well as links to a selection of
available resources on the web.
Phenomenology
Online: Homepage
Phenomenology can be considered a profoundly reflective
inquiry into human meaning, and is one of the central
purposes of a psychoanalysis that is outside of the medical model.
This website, organized by Max van Manen, allows one to explore and
study the different topical domains, orientations, sources of meaning,
methodology, methods, writings and practices of phenomenological perspectives.
Available are numerous articles, monographs, and other materials.
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Arts
Aesthetics
on-line
This is the official website of the American Society for
Aesthetics, founded in 1942 to promote the study of aesthetics, which is understood to
include all studies of the arts and related types of experience
from philosophic, scientific, or other theoretical standpoints.
The ASA sponsors a
several conferences annually, and publishes the Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism, as well as the ASA Newsletter.
This site contains articles about aesthetics, philosophy
of art, art theory and art criticism. It also provides information on events
worldwide, and hosts the Aesthetics-L email discussion
list.
Architexturez
The architexturez project offers a collaborative space for
individuals who share an interest in architectural research.
spanning theory, teaching, and
practice of architecture as it relates to any discipline in an
effort to understand the meanings in the natural, designed, built,
and virtual
environments created by people. Available is information on
related discussion groups, links, images, glossalalia, and a rich
and vast assortment of online papers and other texts speaking to
all aspects of constructed space.
Semiotics
A comprehensive website by Martin Ryder at the University of
Colorado at Denver offering a compendium of online resources
on semiotics, a study of the nature of representation and a
perspective by which we might conceive of human reality as a construction. The site includes the
work of significant figures in the field of semiotics,
organizations, journals, and information on conferences.
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Humanities
Radical
Constructivism
emphasizes the tenet that any kind of knowledge is constructed
and that there is no completely external reality. This
website offers an array of materials on constructivism and its
radical nature, including organizations, papers, links to
periodicals, conferences, people who have made significant
contributions, books
available online, and more.
the/untimely/past
This website is an on-line bibliography whose objective is to
compile a set of English-language entries related to the
intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism,
postmodernism, and allied areas of theory/practice. Offers
alternative understandings of history, a concept whose meaning has
been central to psychoanalytic theory and practice.
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Critical
Psychology
Transtherapy
Transtherapy is an international association of practitioners who have
begun a reform movement which is critical of the trend of
commercialism, medicalization, bureaucratization and
idolization in psychotherapy and in the mental helping
professions.
International
Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
A research and educational network devoted to educating
professionals and the public concerning the impact of mental
health theories on public policy and the effects of
therapeutic practices upon individual well-being, personal
freedom, and family and community values. Sponsors the journal Ethical Human Sciences and Services.
The
Unofficial R.D. Laing Website
R.D. Laing was a leader in challenging and opposing the
disease model of mental illness and highlighting the
socio-political construction of madness within the institutions,
language and practices of medicine. This website offers
articles, a biography, a brief list of scholars of Laingian
thought, related organizations, quotations, and links to others
websites of interest.
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Psychoanalysis
Apres-Coup
An independent non-profit organization established in 1987 and
devoted to analytical formation and the discussion of
contemporary issues in psychoanalysis and culture. Apres-Coup has
brought together researchers, scholars, and psychoanalysts from around
the world for a variety of fascinating and important
seminars and colloquia.
Psy
Broadcasting Corporation Online Symposia for Mental Health
Professionals
Offers unique format where standing panels of thinkers in the
field select and discuss important articles from the current
literature in conjunction with the authors and readers.
Discussions take place via email. Currently offering several
symposia series, including one on psychoanalysis.
Modest subscription fee.
Lacan
dot com
"Lacan dot com is Jacques Lacan in the us".
A creative presentation that offers "lacanian
ink", a biannual journal also available online and
"perfume", as well as a messageboard, a symposium
featuring several topics, including
feminine jouissance, hysteric's discourse, la sesion
analitica, Lacan and others, a guestbook and chat options. A
fascinating site in which to enjoy the work of Lacan.
Psyche
Matters
An extensive website that is an excellent resource on the web
for things psychoanalytic, including the full texts of many
articles, biographies of analytic figures, bibliographies,
and links to other organizations.
World
Association of Psychoanalysis
A site founded in 1992 to promote psychoanalysis throughout
the world and to support the orientation given by Lacan to the
field of experience that Freud inaugurated. Sponsors online
conferences, pubications, e-lists, data bases as well as a display
of artwork. Contributions are published in French,
Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Postmodern
Therapies News
This newsletter is published on a bi-weekly basis and is a summary
of the discussions taking place on a Postmodern Therapy discussion
list which focuses on the meaning, advantages and disadvantages of
postmodern thinking for therapists. The newsletter is
available on an innovative website where the discussions are complemented
by the provision of many other resources on philosophy,
philosophers, postmodernism, references, an index of
scholars as well as an archive of past newsletters.
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Critical
Psychiatry
Critical
Psychiatry Network
Offers information on lectures, conferences, debates, links
and numerous articles on critical psychiatry which reject the
medical model in psychiatry and which challenge the dominance
of clinical neuroscience and its reductionist claims to explain
forms of emotional distress.
International
Society for the Psychological Treatment of the Schizophrenias and
Other Psychoses (ISPS)
An organization whose objective is to promote psychological
treatment and understanding for persons with schizophrenias and
other psychoses, as opposed to the dominant biogenetic medical
model. They publish a newsletter, offer info on local
groups, training programs, books and papers, links, a discussion
group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ISPS-All)
and sponsor an annual international conference.
MindFreedom
Online Support Coalition International
Support Coalition International is an international non-profit
alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to defending
the rights of people in the mental health system and to 'breaking
the silence' about psychiatric abuses and oppression. They
are a leader in vitalizing the mind freedom movement and have
launched human rights campaigns that activate a wide diversity of
the public. Consists of over 100 member organizations and
thousands of individual members in fourteen nations. Sponsors
discussion forums, the Mind Freedom journal, and offers news
directory with alerts, information on current campaigns, related
links, references and more.
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Education
International Federation for
Psychoanalytic Education
A federation of individuals and organizations dedicated to
encouraging alternatives to restrictive psychoanalytic education
and training, reversing the decline of psychoanalysis as a viable
profession, and facilitating dialogue with disciplines that can
enrich psychoanalysis.
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Independent
Practice
Boulders
Psychotherapists Guild
An interdisciplinary organization of psychotherapists who are
practicing independently, and who offer an alternative to the
managed care system with the conviction that people should have
the autonomy to arrange and make decisions about their own
therapy as part of a collaborative confidential relationship.
This guild and others (Connecticut, Atlanta, and Kansas City)
believe the managed care system threatens the right of people and
violate the essential values of psychotherapy.
V.I.P.
Volunteers In Psychotherapy
An independent community nonprofit organization, whose members
provide truly private psychotherapy as "an alternative to
managed care, its destruction of privacy, and its reliance on
pills." Also available on their website are a variety
of resources that offer testimony confronting the myths of managed
care and the which expose the relationship between the drug
company profits and the current prominence of the biomedical model
where treatment primarily consists of medications.
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EJournals
that are actively publishing and offer full text articles
Applied
Semiotics /Sémiotique appliquée
An ejournal devoted to literary research and semiotics,
encompassing research on communicative structures and processes
available in actual texts. Offers opportunity to study
the meaning that can be found in text and language and the
communications of people, providing a basis to understand
psychoanalysis as a semiotic endeavor. Available in English
and French. Seven volumes currently available.
Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts
An e-journal that provides a forum for new work relating the
arts and literature to the exploration of consciousness currently
flourishing in many disciplines such as philosophy, psychology,
physics, and cognitive science. A variety of fascinating
articles are offered which speak to aspects of self and
performance in a variety of art forms, of which psychoanalysis is
one.
Film-Philosophy
Journal | Salon | Portal
An ejournal and discussion salon promoting a philosophical review
of cinema, combining original review articles with email reponse
and argument in the salon. Also a portal link to interesting
writings and fascinating other sites from around the web.
Regarded as one of the most valuable and reliable film sites in
its area. Recently published Volume 4 of the ejournal
Film-Philosophy.
Genders
OnLine
an ejournal that questions gender and sexualities as being
something other than a biological given and considers it in
relation to various contexts in which it is produced, including
artistic, semiotic, political, literary, social, ethnic, racial,
economic, rhetorical or legal. The journal publishes essays
that articulate the ways in which sexuality has been created and
sustained for the purposes of different discourses.
IPNOSIS:
a journal for the Independent Practitioners Network
an ejournal accumulating articles challenging the statuatory
regulation of psycho-practitioners taking place in the UK under
the banner of "accreditation" presented by the
Independent Practitioners Network. Also available are
materials on groups that favor the empowerment of clients without
relying on medical precedents and metaphors such as 'treatment',
'patients', and 'diagnosis'; G.O.R.I.L.L.A., Confronting
Psycho-Practice Professionalisation, and Human Potential Voices.
Janus
Head
An ejournal devoted to maintaining an attitude of respect and
openness to the various manifestations of truth in human
experience, encompassing ideas from continental philosophy,
literature, phenomenological psychology, and art. Publishing
since 1998.
JOURNAL
OF EUROPEAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
The JEP seeks to provide an international forum for the
exploration of the frontiers of psychoanalytic inquiry, giving
voice to diverse perspectives, research, and clinical practice, as
well as introducing readers to important authors, and some of the
debates and trends within psychoanalysis and other related
fields... especially philosophy, humanities, and social sciences.
New
Therapist, the magazine for the thinking psychotherapist
New Therapist is an independent, magazine for mental health
therapists, produced by journalists and therapists on five
continents, providing coverage of the changing world of therapy.
The magazine is not affiliated to any organizations, associations
or particular school of therapeutic thought but aims to provide
the definitive read on what's happening in therapy.
Other Voices - the (e)Journal
of Cultural Criticism
Other Voices is an electronic journal of cultural criticism
founded in 1997 and published at the University of
Pennsylvania. It is dedicated to expanding the dialogues
between the disciplines and challenging received notions. It
publishes provocative essays, interviews, lecture
transcriptions, hypermedia projects, translations and reviews
in the arts and humanities; covering philosophy, literature, visual
art, music and theory in a variety of traditional and
non-traditional forms.
Postmodern
Culture
Ejournal devoted to postmodernism and critical theory.
Has published three issues a year since 1990 and offers a text
only archive which includes the full text of all articles.
Radical
Psychology: A Journal of Psychology, Politics, and Radicalism
An ejournal that provides a forum for scholars dissatisfied
with the manner in which mainstream psychology has addressed the
issues of the betterment of human welfare and social justice.
Publishes on subjects such as anti-psychiatry, radical clinical
theory, critical theory, feminism, and political psychology.
Radical
Philosophy
Radical Philosophy is a journal of socialist and feminist
philosophy providing a forum where radical ideas and issues can be
expressed and discussed. It links currents of thought and
discussion in philosophy with theoretical work in sociology,
psychoanalysis, psychology, history, and literary studies.
Shine
A very active online magazine, created in Macedonia with,
among other things, a unique collection of essays on the
philosophy and theory of literature, theatre and other arts. Available
in several languages.
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