Beyond the Psychology Industry
How Else Might We Heal?
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In this paper, eight practicing psychologists, a dog (Oscar), white cockatoos, crimson rosellas, blue gums, plum blossoms, the words of theorists of eco-psychology and post-humanism joined together for two day...
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Post-COVID-19 environments have challenged our embodied identities with these challenges coming from a variety of domains, that is, microbiological, semiotic, and digital. We are embedded in a new complex set ...
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This autoethnography tells the story of myself, a blonde haired blue-eyed Aboriginal woman exploring identity and belonging. It begins with a brief overview of the dark history that Aboriginal and Torres Strai...
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This paper investigates one aspect of meaning making that occurs in the wake of systemic change. It addresses the question of how time is re-configured by socio-material changes resultant from the COVID-19 pan...
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Dominant approaches to support people in psychological distress are individualistic, emphasizing intervention conducted in the privacy of the therapy room, focused on exploring and resolving intrapsychic probl...
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Pina Boggi-Cavallo calls for a different kind of response to disaster, beyond physical rebuilding or individual psychotherapy to an engagement with psychoterratic distress, the existential pain caused by the l...
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Who am I? How can I be true to myself? How can I be authentic given the world I live in? These questions have been explored by existentialist philosophers, positioning courage in the face of dread as central t...
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Dominant approaches to support people in psychological distress are individualistic, emphasizing intervention conducted in the privacy of the therapy room, focused on exploring and resolving intrapsychic probl...
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Despite an increased interest in understanding characteristics of long-standing anorexia nervosa (AN), there is a lack of knowledge into the processes that occur with the development and maintenance of the dis...
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Since efforts to stage anorexia nervosa (AN) revealed the existence of various presentations, research into the long-standing subgroup has increased. A change in treatment has been proposed with the intention ...
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The Black Summer of 2019/2020 was an unprecedented bushfire event in Australia, destroying nearly 20 million hectares of bush and 1 billion animals. Psychologically, this event caused untold distress, not simp...
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Psychology as a science has focussed on internal landscapes at the expense of external ones, a fact that becomes increasingly problematic as we struggle to accept and respond to the climate crisis and its psyc...
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Mainstream clinical psychology is centered on an individualistic view of human distress and healing, where the expert therapist adheres to specific models supported by empirical evidence. It has also become an...
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Maudsley Family Therapy and its manualised version Family-Based Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (FBT-AN) have accrued the most significant research evidence-base for the treatment of adolescent Anorexia Nervosa (...
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This article is a collection of poetry by psychologists who practice in cities, mainly sunny Sydney, with solidarity from others. Poetic introspection gives us access beyond the visible into the affective atmo...
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Maudsley Family Therapy (MFT), and its manualised version, Family-Based Therapy (FBT), are the only well-established treatment interventions for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN), with treatment efficacy primar...
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A meta-synthesis was conducted to explore women’s constructions of anorexia nervosa and childhood trauma. Following a systematic review of the literature, six studies were isolated and synthesized within a mat...
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Anecdotally it is well known that eating disorder memoirs are popular with people with anorexia nervosa and recovery stories are readily available online. However, no research to date has empirically explored ...