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...
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Critique and Praxis: Commentaries
Autoethnography — 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,...
read moreParkmore Institute Professor Wins Prestigious Gradiva Award!
As is well known, in recent years some of the most provocatively challenging and intellectually intriguing developments have come from the arena of quantum physics. These developments have stimulated many thinkers to consider what quantum reality means for everyday...
read moreOn Waking Up to Coloniality: An Invitation
It seems that every few decades the dominant paradigms in social theory start to crumble and are replaced by paradigms that supposedly correct for the deficiencies of the former. Then the new paradigms are revealed to be insufficient and are themselves displaced....
read moreSouth African government culls psychiatric patients for financial and political gain
Sometime in 2015, the government of Gauteng Province (which surrounds Johannesburg and is home to over 25% of South Africa’s population) decided to save money by deinstitutionalizing a substantial portion of the inpatient psychiatric population in its care. As...
read moreThinking about Books…one psychoanalyst’s perspective
After forty five years of psychoanalytic practice, it is not a particularly easy task to pick out ten books that I believe are singularly important for anyone wishing to understand psychoanalysis ‑‑‑ as a theory of the mind, a cultural critique and a therapeutic practice. I will inevitably leave out some essential texts out (e.g., the works of Sándor Ferenczi and Otto Fenichel). I read many of the books I have listed many years ago. Yet they were formative of my thinking in a foundational way.
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