Letter from the President

As I sit here at my computer on 9/11/03 and contemplate where to begin this letter to our membership, I can't help but think of how the world views of many people have changed drastically, how illusions of safety have been shattered, and how difficult it is to capture and understand the perspective of someone who has been raised in a culture that is vastly different from one's own. For those of us in the United States, 911 is an access code to get help in an emergency; now when we hear those numbers, other images come to mind: an image of terrorism, tragedy, heroic behavior, suffering and loss, courage, and patriotism. Perhaps we also need to view the date 9/11 as a call for help from an endangered planet.

It is so easy:

• to fall into a simplistic perspective of dichotomizing actions as right and wrong, good or evil, with us or against us
• to stereotype
• to let fear cause us to strike out at others
• to ridicule the opinions and actions of those with whom we disagree
• to assume a position of moral superiority.

There has never been a greater need than now for humanistic psychologists to further the human condition, to challenge intolerance, to promote the concept of "world citizens," to make a difference. Our Division is currently one of the smaller divisions of APA. If we are going to continue as a constructive force, we need to address this situation. At our incoming board meeting at the APA convention, I appointed David Cain as our new Membership Chair. He replaced Will Wadlington, who very ably served in this position for many years. David is committed to increasing our membership and has a variety of ideas and plans to do so. We all need to share responsibility for the future of this Division. He has asked each of us to recruit one new member for the Division this year. Please try to do so. This represents just one of the ways that we are trying to sustain our membership. Other steps we have taken recently included a voluntary phone outreach by board members to other division members in their general geographic areas, a special social hour at APA this past convention to welcome new and returning members, and expansion of sections within our Division. Other efforts that are currently underway include having Ilene Serlin, our Council Representative, explore with APA ways that we can offer special joint membership deals to members of other divisions with similar interests. David and I have identified the 142 current members of APA who have dropped out of our Division in the past three years. We will try to find out what caused this exodus and see if we can get them to rejoin.

Key points about the Division that you might want to share with an interested colleague include:

Our journal is up to date with its publications, it has become a quarterly journal, and we have just signed a contract with Erlbaum Associates to publish the journal beginning this coming year.

We are an approved Continuing Education provider and will be offering more workshops. Many of our programs at this past convention were approved for CE credits.

We have an active listserv, newsletter, and website, which offer stimulating discussions, valuable information, humor, and support to those committed to the practice of humanistic psychology.

We offer a reduced membership rate for students.

We are a proactive force within APA, representing a humanistic perspective. Our recent endeavor to design an alternative template is a good example of these types of efforts.

By now you have picked up the flavor of what I hope to accomplish as President: to leave the Division in an even stronger position at the end of my term of office than it was when Franz passed the "actualizing oil can" on to me. And if you don't understand the reference to the oil can, just come to our membership meeting next year at APA in Hawaii, and you will discover its historical meaning to the Division.

How else can you help our Division? When you receive your apportionment ballot from APA later this year, please remember that every vote you cast for "32" helps us to remain a visible force in APA!

Best wishes,

Art Lyons

Letter from the Past President

Hi Everyone:

It was such a pleasure and privilege for me to serve as your President for the past year, and I look forward to following through with some of the goals I had for the Division during my presidential year and helping the Division in any way I can. The board has asked me to be, for a one-year term, the first Humanistic Continuity Officer. My primary responsibility will be to keep the Handbook for officers up to date and posted on our website and filed with the APA central office. Rom Brafman, a graduate student at the University of Florida, has agreed to help me again with this project, and I welcome input from everyone. While I will leave most of the topics of discussion and comment to the President, I would like to make special note of progress in two areas. First, the sections of the Division have been strengthened and are regularly reporting their activities in the newsletter. In addition, this year we added a new section of Psychology and the Arts to the existing sections of Transpersonal, Human Science, Psychotherapy, and Constructivist. Second, the reception for new members in the hospitality suite at the Toronto convention was a big success thanks to the hard work of Daniel Helminiak and April Metzler who were in charge of all the divisional programming at the convention. In addition, there will be a new award created soon for young professionals who are just beginning their careers. Kathleen Wall, our most capable Awards Chair, is spearheading this effort. I look forward to a very productive year under the proficient direction of our new President.

Sincerely,

Franz Epting

Hello to All:

Division 32 lost one of its founders on July 19, 2003, when Dr. Carmi Harari died at the age of 82. He was our first president and led the effort to create a section for Transpersonal Psychology within our Division. A therapist and an educator, Dr. Harari was also the first international coordinator for the Association of Humanistic Psychology. For this issue's "Your Say" column, Ilene Serlin writes of Division 32's founding.

Beginning with this issue, a membership form for Division 32 will appear in each newsletter. Please encourage others to join and help us further the humanism movement through tolerance, respect, and concern for the health and well-being of all people.

Sincerely,

Elli Winer

FELLOWS IN DIVISION 32

The deadline for receipt of completed dossiers is November 17, 2003. For information regarding APA requirements and Division 32 standards, please contact Maureen O'Hara, Chair, Fellowship Committee, Saybrook Graduate School, 450 Pacific 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133. Phone: (415) 394-5208, Fax: (415) 415-394-5193 or mcarleton@saybrook.edu.

The board meeting was divided into two parts, the first part chaired by the current President and the second part chaired by the President-Elect.

Chair: Franz Epting, President. Attendees: Franz Epting, E. Mark Stern, Ilene Serlin, Mike Arons, Connie Fischer, Kathleen Wall, Marsha Hammond, Art Lyons, Scott Churchill, Art Bohart, David Cain, Larry Leitner, April Faidley, Kirk Schneider, Marc Celentana.

Secretary Report. April Faidley.

The estimate for a hard copy directory printed by APA was presented. Given the cost, it was determined we would not have a directory printed. The directory is available online at the APA website. It can be accessed with one's APA membership number. Connie Fischer moved that we remind the membership in every newsletter and on the website how the directory can be accessed online. The motion was seconded and passed. The board approved an expenditure of up to $150 for the secretary to purchase a zip drive or CDs for indexing the minutes.

Handbook. Franz Epting

Franz Epting will oversee the update of the Handbook for the next year, to put it in final form, and forward it to Division Services.

Continuity Officer. Franz Epting.

Franz Epting volunteered to serve as the Continuity Officer for the next year as we consider adding the position as an office of the Division. Mike Arons noted that the archives might also serve a function in regard to continuity. Ilene Serlin proposed that Franz Epting and Mike Arons prepare a proposal for the mid-winter meeting specifying how the archives can function in the continuity project/problem.

Membership Chair. President Epting announced that President-Elect Art Lyons has selected David Cain to replace Will Wadlington as Membership Chair. A motion was made, seconded and approved that the board accept the appointment.

Program Committee Report. April Metzler.

April will forward information for the Handbook pertinent to the job of Program Committee Chair. She emphasized the importance of submitting our APA program offerings for CE credits, which helps centralize the location of much of the programming and potentially generates revenue. Connie Fischer moved that the Div. 32 program be emailed to the Executive Committee, emailed to those on the listserv, and published in the newsletter if possible. The motion passed. It was noted that we need to investigate how the program can be more broadly disseminated. Art Bohart, the Div. 32 Cluster Program Representative, reported his concerns that cluster programming is not accomplishing its objectives. Divisions lost programming time so that there would be less competition in programming; however, when there should have been only 10 tracts, he counted 18 separate programs that were scheduled.

Hospitality Suite. Daniel Helminiak.

Daniel will add his experience this year to the Handbook; thus, assisting future Hospitality Suite Chairs. Expenses of the hospitality suite this year were covered in part by nine donors: Association for Humanistic Psychology, Center for Humanistic Studies, Duquesne University, Existential Humanistic Institute, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, Sonoma State University, University of West Georgia, and York University.

Treasurer's Report. Marc Celentana.

The Treasurer submitted the 2003-2004 budget. Scott Churchill suggested that the Treasurer's Report indicate net change in investment value on our investments and that the Treasurer monitor what is happening on a monthly basis. Mark Stern noted that the Finance Committee needs to become functional. The committee consists of the Treasurer, the Past President, and two Executive Committee members, Marsh Hammond and Scott Churchill. The donation to CDPP in the budget will be moved to the miscellaneous category, since the organization no longer exists. It was moved, seconded, and passed that the board adopt the budget.

Journal Report. Larry Leitner.

The journal has moved from 3 to 4 issues per year. The first 3 issues are out. The fourth issue each year will be guest edited by Scott Churchill, thus incorporating Methods in the journal. We will end 2003 current and under budget. The same format will continue in 2004. Lawrence Erlbaum agreed to hold to the $22.50 per member fee for 4 issues beginning in Jan. 2005. The contract also states that as soon as the journal is generating income, there will be a 50/50 split on the profits. The editor accepted a 40% reduction in honorarium to keep the price down. The contract specifies 100 pages per issue, which will be 4 or 5 articles per issue. Erlbaum is confident that it will be able to increase subscriptions. Continuing Education questions will be added to 2004, no. 1. Articles being accepted now will appear in late 2004 or 2005. Art Lyons requested the journal report at the mid-winter meeting include a summary of number of submissions, number of acceptances, areas in which we are receiving submissions, etc.

Election Report. Larry Leitner.

Scott Churchill, President-Elect. Maureen O'Hara and Mary Fox, Members-at-Large.

Membership Report. David Cain.

David will send letters of welcome to new members. He encouraged everyone to recruit graduate students, whose dues are $18, suggesting that perhaps professors could sponsor graduate students or send $18 to the Membership Committee as a fund for students who cannot afford the fee. David will be updating the brochure, shifting the emphasis to the Division's relevance and the benefits available to members. President-Elect Lyons appointed Scott Churchill (1-yr. term), Ilene Serlin (3-yr. term), and Marsha Hammond (2-yr. term) to the Membership Committee. Scott Churchill and Ilene Serlin will assist with the brochure. Marsha Hammond will investigate how we can compile an email list of the membership. Every year there will be a slot open on this committee where a new Member-at-Large can serve. David suggested that the journal and the newsletter include a membership application. Div. 32 is one-half of 1% of the APA membership. There was discussion regarding recruiting membership at APA. It was suggested that students be recruited to take membership applications to Div. 32 programs at APA and announce their availability.

Chair: Art Lyons, President-Elect.

Transpersonal Section. Robert Frager, delivered by Kathleen Wall.

The Association of Transpersonal Psychology and ITP will have a professional conference, starting Feb. 15, 2004, somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area. The paper call will be in the hospitality suite. The conference is designed to bring together professionals to dialogue about the field. Larry Leitner noted that the interest in the field has been evident recently in that the journal issue devoted to transpersonal psychology netted the division an additional $300 in revenues for extra copies purchased.

Psychotherapy Section. Art Bohart.

The Principles of Humanistic Psychosocial Services is now on the website. It will be published in the journal, 2004, no. 1. The Michigan Society in Psychoanalytic Psychology is publishing it on their website. Ron Fox replied that he was impressed with it. Tom Greening would like to publish an excerpt in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Next, Art would like to draft a piece for the website that would list our recommendations on how to choose a therapist.

Human Science and Research Section. Scott Churchill.

Scott reported on a dearth of submissions of qualitative and/or phenomenological research. He encouraged everyone who teaches to promote process and outcome research and to encourage students to submit their work for publication.

Constructivist Section. Jon Raskin, delivered by April Faidley.

The next constructivist conference is in Memphis, TN, June 17-20, 2004: Constructivism 3D: Dialogue, Development, and Diversity.

Psychology and Arts Section. Ilene Serlin.

The section sponsored a kick-off event at APA, a book-signing featuring Paul Camic, co-author (with Rhodes & Yardley) of Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design, APA Press, 2003. The book signing was co-sponsored by the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations, East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, and the Phillips Graduate Institute.

Awards. Kathleen Wall.

Nominations are open for 2005. Send them to: Kwall@itp.edu. The October issue of the Monitor will contain a report of our award winners. Ilene Serlin suggested we see that the award winners are published in the Division Services Newsletter and are sent to APAGS. The website solicits submissions from the membership, and Kathleen will also send a notice to Elli Winer for the newsletter. Kathleen suggested we consider an early career award. She will investigate how to submit names for APA awards, and we will consider submitting Div. 32 members for those awards.

Jourard Awards. Scott Churchill.

Scott will be sending out a notification for submission for Jourard awards. The deadline is December 1, 2003.

Mid-Winter Meeting. Art Lyons.

The meeting is scheduled for Jan. 9-11, 2004. There will be focus working groups. Art will get out the list so board members can self-select in the area of their interest. Board members may also suggest topics to Art.

New Member Reception. Art Lyons.

About 150 members received an invitation, and a number attended the reception. About a dozen people responded that they would not be attending APA but appreciated the invitation. We would like to see this become a regular event in the hospitality suite at APA.

APA 2004. There was discussion of possibilities for APA 2004: whether or not we would have a hospitality suite, for how many days, and when it would have programming. Members offered suggestions for alternative activities, such as field trips or presentations on the beach. A task force composed of Mark Stern, April Metzler, Scott Churchill, Mike Arons, David Elkins, and Will Wadlington was appointed.

Fellows Committee. Maureen O'Hara.

The following have been endorsed for Div. 32 Fellow status: Kenneth Gergen, Louis Sass, Brent Slife, Donald Polkinghorne, Mary Reuder. Scott Churchill is the nominee and new Fellow this year.

Changing the name of the Division? Mark Stern.

Mark suggested that we consider including "Spirituality" in the name of the Division. Discussion ensued regarding the heightened interest in spirituality, the large amount of research and publications in the area, and the extent to which spirituality has historically been a part of humanistic psychology. Art Lyons proposed we create a hospitality suite program on spirituality to gauge the membership response.

Accreditation Committee. Connie Fischer.

Connie, Bob Morgan, Marsha Hammond, and Kathleen Wall attended 7 hours of APA training for site visitors and learned that accreditation requirements are being interpreted broadly. Connie did not see anything that would be detrimental to any of the programs associated with the Division becoming accredited.

Council Report. Ilene Serlin.

A proposal to declare a moratorium on Guidelines was defeated in Council. Div. 42 wants to insert language to specify that guidelines are not standards. There is ongoing discussion in this regard. Some are opposing the trend towards specialization, along with us. Ilene encourages individuals to serve on CODAPAR. One only needs to have been a division officer. Items for council can be proposed through CODAPAR.

Emergence of a new field? Mike Arons.

Mike asked the Division to appoint a committee to explore the possibility of a new field (similar to the emergence of counseling psychology or to psychology separate from psychiatry). Art Lyons, Mike Arons, and Kirk Schneider will carry this suggestion forward.

Council Report

For my Council Report, I would like to share a short version of my report for the Presidential Task Force that Div. 32 co-sponsored in Council. What I hope is significant about this report is that it finds that depression seems to be related to the media coverage of the war and that talking about politics may be clinically indicated in the therapy session.

APA Task Force: Prevention of Terrorism. The growing rates of depression and anxiety in the U.S. have been increasingly related to internal biological factors (for example, see Peter Kramer's article in the July 26 issue of the New York Times called "Tapping The Mood Gene," p. A29). Managed care insurance companies are now requiring a psychiatric consult and/or medication for depression as a medical disorder. However, clinical observations from my consulting room are showing different trends: increasing rates of depression and anxiety may be related to social and cultural factors like the war in Iraq and the American news coverage of that war.

This paper explores the effect of media on the mental health of people who are seeking or are in psychotherapy during the time of the 2003 Iraq war. It examines the clinical impact of the war's use of technology in fighting and reporting; its rationale of "shock and awe"; and its use of secrecy, lying, spin, and unilateralism to push its agenda on patients' views of themselves and their sense of humanity. Its premises are grounded in humanistic psychology, which holds that basic security, integrity, and meaning are central to mental health and that the deprivation of these results in "metapathologies" (Maslow, 1962).

Using a narrative/archival research method, I collected stories from media available to local patients, and then interviewed patients about the effects of these stories. The reports came from their written narratives, as well as their oral interviews. The first cohort group was comprised of patients who were Vietnam War veterans. In addition to reporting predictable incidences of posttraumatic stress and depression, they also reported new symptoms of cynicism, distrust, fear, breakdown of reality testing, paranoia and helplessness/hopelessness. The report below summarizes these preliminary findings in terms of recurring themes found in the news reports and subject narratives.

Media Reports. Truth: Press Democrat (PD) 3/8/03: Even in March, administration knew of lies; evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appeared to have been fabricated, wrote the U N's chief nuclear inspector in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions deemed "not authentic," after careful scrutiny by UN and independent experts.

Wall Street Journal (WSJ) March 25, A12: "The unprecedented access journalists from around the world have shared in covering the fighting in Iraq has produced starkly divergent accounts of the conflict, in a way that underscores continuing international skepticism about the U.S. mission there. While some U.S. embeds have clearly bonded with their military cohorts, using the personal pronoun 'we' when reporting about the troops' progress, there is often more detachment from non-US embedded organizations."

WSJ March 25, D1: "Studies show regular television exposure to traumatic events can increase risk for stress and depression and it can even weaken our immune systems. Doctors think excessive war viewing before bedtime can cause stress-induced nighttime snacking and interfere with sleep. Even young children who seem oblivious to events on the screen may suffer ill effects simply as a result of leaving the television on throughout the day." Another study found that when participants "watched gory videos, levels of the protein dropped, indicating a weakening of the immune system."

New York Times (NYT) March 23, B3: "So far the war itself is selling like beer on a troopship, thanks in part to compelling news accounts from reporters bunking with frontline units. Like the most sophisticated Madison Avenue marketers, Pentagon planners have also reached out to diverse outlets where public opinion is shaped, by including reporters from MTV, Rolling Stone, People magazine and Men's Health, and foreign journalists running the gamut from Al Jazeera, the Arabic-language television channel, to Russia's Itar-Tass news agency."

Subject #1

At his discharge in 1969, he came back and didn't fit into society. He has had a jaded view of society since. He is bitter. He has sleep disturbances with early morning awakenings. His first wife tried to get him to talk about the anger after 1979, tried to get him to vet groups, but he wouldn't talk. The "anger and resentment" he feels now is that "we're facing the human part now." It is "distressing to take the human part out of war. The Germans had the perfect machine, but it was the people who were behind that machine who stopped fighting. In Vietnam there was no purpose to being there--that's why they [the Germans] didn't fight as well. What the men saw were just men, poor, Communists, trying to earn a living." It was the servicemen "who refused to fight that stopped the war." He felt that his life and thoughts were very different from those of "most people," which brought him "isolation and loneliness."

The war in Iraq brought back these thoughts because, like the Vietcong or American soldiers, " they're Iraqi, their lives are not worth as much. And we don't understand why they don't like us. It seems that we are repeating all the same things over again. All of this is hyperbole.

"After four years of college, you're given a diploma and you have years of wonderful memories. Memories that will be shared for many years. After four years of service, you're given a discharge and a head full of memories that may not be shared. You've been trained not to feel; yet every day those feelings of mourning are with you. Those memories of the dead, dying and the suffering. And now after all these years-the feelings grow more intense. The good life. Yet these memories. Keep reminding me of all those who will never have this life. Why?"

This patient struggles with a sense of lack of meaning, probably above all. He describes moving from the "Humphrey Bogart" role model of his earlier years to his present "Woody Allen." He sees life as somewhat surreal and absurd, and describes his change as "more toward having more conversation and being more open" to life. "Seeing through war how human life has so much less value, war changes the meaning of life."

Subject #2

"The whole thing is orchestrated by some very professional people. Shock and awe-shows the superiority of the American forces over selected shots-destruction being rained on Iraq. Almost cartoonish--it avoided showing anyone being directly killed. It was like a theatrical production. It was good theatrics when Bush spoke from the aircraft carrier. I almost threw up, like he was paid to say that. He is master of the art of television, he has embedded people everywhere (cynicism). Someone somewhere in the White House who cranks out these things. The aims of the war changed from being about chemical and biological weapons to freeing the Iraqis, similar to the military in Vietnam. They are blaming the looters, and there is always a finger being pointed at someone else (lack of taking responsibility, projection). There is not a single word that I believe.

"I am fearful of foreign travel; there is now a vast unknown about your own personal future that pops up (insecurity). Where is the next target? What's going to happen?" You can't cover all the bases. You've raised the risk of terrorist attacks in this country. The real fear is not just my own. But how many people in this country actually believe what they see on television? People will believe what they see because it's on television (reality).

"As the evidence pyramids, I am more than ever, convinced that the Bush administration is the most corrupt, inept political machine ever constructed! And what is so terribly scary is the most powerful and most inept--space limits descriptions--but I am quickly becoming quite fearful (paranoia) (trust) of the known and unknown conspiracies being concocted at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave."

Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D.
Council Representative, Div. 32

Division 32, Humanistic Psychology
Prepared by: Marc Celentana, Treasurer

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY 2004, February 13-15, 2004 (Presidents' Day Weekend). This will be an exciting conference bringing transpersonal psychology up to date for psychologists, therapists, educators, health professionals, scholars, writers, researchers, students, and others interested in the transpersonal field. The meeting will be held in Palo Alto, CA, sponsored by the William James Center, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Further conference details and registration information will be posted on the Association website, and the ITP website.

Look for the special issue (summer) of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology regarding "The Future of Humanistic Psychology," which attempts to take a hard look at where our field is potentially headed.

Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D., is the new Chair of CODAPAR, Committee on Division/APA Relations, and Fellows Chair for Div. 42.

Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery, and the Fluid Center of Life (forthcoming, spring 2004, Paragon House) by Kirk Schneider, Ph.D., aims to restore a sense of awe (the thrill and anxiety, humility and wonder of living) to self, society, and spirit. Information regarding the book is displayed at http://www.paragonhouse.com/. "Enchanted Agnosticism," an article drawn from the book, appeared in the July/August issue of the political and cultural periodical Tikkun magazine. To order the magazine, call 1-800-395-7753 between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM PST.

Survey on End-Of-Life Issues

The American Psychological Association (APA) Ad Hoc Committee on End-of-Life Issues is interested in finding out what psychologists are doing in the areas of dying, suicide, bereavement, traumatic loss, and end-of-life issues. Please take a few moments to go to the following website (http://watson.apa.org/eol/divmem/) and complete the committee's five-minute, online survey.

Results from the survey will be summarized and posted on the APA website at the following location: http://www.apa.org/pi/eol. Please note that individual responses to the survey will be confidential and only aggregate data will be made available to the public. This survey is being disseminated through multiple communication channels, and thus it is possible that you might receive it more than once. We ask that you complete the survey only one time. If you have any questions, please contact John R. Anderson, Ph.D. Staff Liaison for End-of-Life Issues, at janderson@apa.org, or at 202-336-6051. By mail: American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242.

YOUR SAY

Carmi Harari and Humanistic Psychology at APA: Division 32

by
Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D.

Humanistic psychology was reflected at APA well before it became a formal division. Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow were elected presidents of the American Psychological Association. In a January 12, 1971, letter to John Levy, Executive Director of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, Don Gibbons, Associate Professor of Psychology at West Georgia College, proposed a new division of humanistic psychology in APA. He wrote, "We feel that the humanistic movement in psychology is growing at such a rate that the eventual formation of such a division of the APA is inevitable." To form this new division, 275 members, or approximately 1% of APA's total members, were needed to sign a petition. John Levy's worried memo of January 15 to the Board of AHP shows his concern that a second organization devoted to humanistic psychology might cause confusion and a weakening of AHP. Although the issue was resolved by deciding that AHP's membership would be interdisciplinary while Division 32's would focus on psychologists, and although AHP and Division 32 collaborated on a hospitality suite for Division 32's first program in APA, some tension remained.

After 374 members of APA petitioned for the proposed division, the Council of Representatives, receiving affirmation from the existing divisions of APA, confirmed and made official the new Division of Humanistic Psychology. The first newsletter of Division 32 was circulated on November 1, 1971, by Acting President Carmi Harari.

By September 1972, Harari reported that membership had increased almost 70% in the first year, and the loyalty of the members had led to gaining two seats on Council. Harari and Stanley Krippner were instrumental in organizing various international conferences on humanistic psychology during the early 1970s. The Division's first real election was held in 1972 to select its actual officers. Harari was selected President; Everett Shostrom, President-Elect; Barry Crown, Treasurer; Fred Massarik and Albert Ellis, Council Representatives.

The Executive Board later appointed Mike Arons and Carmi Harari, two of the Division's founding members and longtime leaders, archivists for the Division's history. One significant project that grew out of these appointments was the oral history project. This project involved videotaping interviews with the most prominent scholars in the field, such as Rollo May, Clark Moustakas, Paul Ricoeur, Jim Bugental, and Stanley Krippner. The series now has more than 50 hours of tape and is housed in the Division 32 Archives at the University of West Georgia.

Call for Nominations

Div. 32 needs nominations for President, Treasurer, Council Representative, and two Members at Large. Send your nominations (including self-nominations) to Franz Epting (epting@ufl.edu), Dept. of Psychology, University of Florida, P. O. Box 115550, Gainesville, FL 32611-2056. Deadline for nominations is Dec. 15, 2003.