[In 2016, Dr Gerald Gargiulo, a distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at the Parkmore Institute, published his path-breaking book on 'Quantum Psychoanalysis.' In these reflections, he offers us some of the interesting background to his thinking. The...
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Critique and Praxis: Commentaries
Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies
[This paper by Dr Robert Beshara, Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Parkmore Institute, was presented in 2018 at the Islamophobia Conference at the University of California, Berkeley. The Parkmore Institute is delighted to be able to publish this outstanding...
read moreOn Ignacio Martin-Baró’s ‘Writings for a Liberation Psychology’
[This brief essay was originally published in "Psycho-analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa" volume 19(2) 2011, 121-133.] As many people now know, Professor Ignacio Martín-Baró was a radical psychologist, prolific scholar and Jesuit priest, who was killed by the...
read moreBrief Reflections on one of the Roots of our Hostilities
[This paper was originally presented at a Psychoanalytic Symposium, University of Witwatersrand as long ago as 2011. Despite being superseded by more recent writings --- particularly "Oedipality and Oedipal Complexes Reconsidered: On the Incest Taboo as a Key to the...
read moreMultiple Case Studies — A Methodology Suitable for Doctoral Projects on Clinical (or Similar) Topics
For many doctoral Candidates --- perhaps especially those writing in the areas of body psychotherapy, psychoanalytic studies or human sexuality --- the presentation of a multiple case study makes most sense. This is a method in which several "cases" are written up in...
read moreAutoethnography — Researching the Self as a Method of Socially Critical Inquiry
The Parkmore Institute asked Professor Clarke to provide an introduction to the methodology of autoethnography, because this is an approach to writing a doctoral project that might be useful to some of the Institute's Candidates. Professor Clarke kindly provides a...
read moreThe Mass Psychology of Trumpism
[Published previously as a blog for the London Review of Books, reprinted here with the personal permission of Dr. Zaretsky] Since the Republican primaries in the USA of 2015-16, some people have turned to psychiatry in an effort to locate the irrational wellsprings...
read moreFascist “creep” and the relevance of sexual (un)freedom
Despite several worthy efforts, we have yet to grasp, adequately or sufficiently, how the politics of oppression are ideologically encoded in the bodymind of every participant in the collectivity or polis. This month I participated in the 16th Congress of the European...
read moreBridging the Gap between Academia, Activism, and Lived-Experience: Engaged Scholarship in South Africa
The following is excerpted from the excellent anthology, edited by Susan Levine, At the Foot of the Volcano: Reflections on Teaching at a South African University (2018, Human Sciences Research Council Press). Instead of conforming to the logic and rhetoric of elitist...
read moreIntroducing Bodymind Healing: A Bibliographic Guide for Students
The Parkmore Institute asked Professor Greg Johanson to provide a bibliography of what he considers a useful approach to studying the literature in bodymind healing. Professor Johanson notes that his list includes items from the early days of somatic psychotherapy,...
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