Beyond the Psychology Industry
How Else Might We Heal?
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Open AccessWorlding Eco-psychology: a Collective Bio-ethnography
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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Open AccessRemaining Human in COVID-19: Dialogues on Psychogeography
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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Ultra-running: Repositioning the Injury Experience Within an Embodiment Framework
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Exploration of My Aboriginal Heritage: An Autoethnography
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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Open AccessRemaking time: Cultural semiotic transformations of temporality during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown
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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Community Psychology and Psychological Distress
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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Yearning for Home: Place, Loss, and New Paradigms of Psychological Practice
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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Identity and the Courage to Be: From Kierkegaard to Covid-19
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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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Community Psychology and Psychological Distress
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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Open AccessHow and why does the disease progress? A qualitative investigation of the transition into long-standing anorexia nervosa
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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Open AccessLived experience perspectives on labeling and defining long-standing anorexia nervosa
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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Eco-Anxiety and Psycho-Terratic Paradigms of Practice: A View From Australia
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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Humboldt, Romantic Science and Ecocide: a Walk in the Woods
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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A Drifters Handbook
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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Open Access“As long as they eat”? Therapist experiences, dilemmas and identity negotiations of Maudsley and family-based therapy for anorexia nervosa
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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We Are Barometers of the City; Collected Poems by Psychologists
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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Open Access“We don’t really know what else we can do”: Parent experiences when adolescent distress persists after the Maudsley and family-based therapies for anorexia nervosa
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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Women’s Constructions of Childhood Trauma and Anorexia Nervosa: a Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
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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Open AccessAre recovery stories helpful for women with eating disorders? A pilot study and commentary on future research
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 ...
