On not Being There

On Not Being Human.

Morton Ann GernsbAcher is the Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She can be reached via email at [email protected]. Around the time I took office as president of the Association for Psychological Science, Wray Herbert, Public Affairs Director of APS, began e-publishing his now syndicated blog,...

MINDFULNESS IN PRACTICE Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Some Reflections on Being Good, on not Being Good and on Just Being

Over the last 12 years, through my work at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University, I have been engaged with colleagues (both within CMRP and from other training centres in the UK) in an exploration of how to support the development of a robust professional practice context for our own teaching team and for the growing community of mindfulness-based teachers...

Passivity, being-with and being-there: care during birth

This paper examines how to best be with women during birth, based on a phenomenological description of the birth experience. The first part of the paper establishes birth as an uncanny experience, that is, an experience that is not only entirely unfamiliar, but even unimaginable. The way in which birth happens under unknowable circumstances (in terms of when, how, with whom…) creates a set of a...

On Not Being Able to Paint

many who have been studying artistic products and the creative impulse that no glib formula can be stated on the basis of a superficial examination, even though of hundreds of free drawings. Joanna Field gives an answer to those who are constantly criticizing psychoanalysis for lack of integrative functions or any philosophic approach to life. She has for the first time, as far as I know, put i...