Are you going to San Francisco? There's going to be some special people there.     David J. Cain

       If these lines ring a bell you may have been a hippie or a humanistic psychologist (or both) almost 40 years ago. San Francisco still has its charm and plenty of counter-culture. A visit to Haight and Asbury should bring back some memories. It was a time of excitement in the development of many humanistic psychotherapies and a time when humanistic psychology and the human potential movement were in full bloom. We made quite a difference then and continue to do so today. Just without the flowers and bell bottom pants. Many of the persons who were founding or developing major approaches to psychotherapy. Carl Rogers, Rollo May, Jim Bugental, Virginian Satir, Clark Moustakas, Art Combs, Eugene Gendlin, Laura and Fritz Perls, R.D. Laing , Viktor Frankl, Erv Polster and many others were developing provocative, creative and sound concepts and ways of being in the therapeutic endeavor. The ideas of these seminal thinkers have been carried forward and built upon by later generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners.
       Today the research evidence for the effectiveness of every major humanistic approach to psychotherapy is substantial and compelling. Humanistic psychotherapies are as effective or more effective than all other major therapeutic approaches. Today’s humanistic psychotherapists have embraced both natural and human science approaches to testing the effectiveness of psychotherapy for essentially every major problem humans experience, while also providing us with a penetrating understanding of the inner world of therapy as experienced by therapists and their clients.      
      This August 14-16, you will have the opportunity to meet and learn from many of the most prominent, innovative and contributive humanistic psychotherapists of our times. The Humanistic Psychotherapies Conference, sponsored by the Division of Humanistic Psychology, will be a time to look back and pay our respects to those whose foundations we built on and a time to look forward to our continually developing and promising future.
       I want to extend a personal invitation to each of you, on behalf of myself and our conference planning committee, to attend what promises to be an extraordinary and magical event. I hope, too, that many of you will stay on for the APA convention that follows (August 17-20) and attend many of the exceptional programs sponsored by our division. So come to San Francisco. Please let your colleagues and graduate students know about these special events. There will be a lot of special people there.
 

Recognize Talent: Nominate now for the Div.32 Early/Mid Career Awards
                                                            Kathleen Wall
 
       Kathleen Wall, your Div. 32 member at large and the Awards Committee Chairperson remind you of an opportunity to nominate yourself or a colleague for the exciting Early/Mid Career Award, for the Boston, 2008 conference. Nominate by June 1, 2007. These are exciting award that is a wonderful member service. It is often in early and mid career we need to recognize talent. The Board of Division 32 developed this relatively new award with the first awards given at the 2006 APA conference.
       In the winter, 2007 meeting we discussed the need for collaborations and mentoring, to include our early career members. These awards help humanistic and transpersonal psychology be more visible. They also acknowledge the exciting new developments, and you who are making these contributions. These awards are inclusive in that it covers three areas: social action, application and inquiry.We have many talented people deserving this award, so nominate yourself or a colleague. The awards were first generated by Dr. Scott Churchill. Thanks Scott for your efforts to recognize our fine early career contributors.
       Early Career Contributions to Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology awards are given to psychologists, no more than fifteen years after receiving their doctorates. Three early/mid-career
contribution awards are established in the areas of application, social action and inquiry.
      The Inquiry Award, the Carmi Harari Early Career Award, covers the range of in-depth inquiry, research, new discoveries and theoretical insights - using a broad range of inquiry methods both qualitative and integrative - of quantitative methods. Nominators should include in the letter of nomination a statement addressing the following questions: Describe the general themes of the nominee’s inquiry; Describe the important theoretical contributions usually attributed to the nominee’s inquiry; Describe the research findings usually attributed to the nominee’s research and inquiry; To what extent has the nominee’s work generated research in the psychological field?
       The Application Award is given to a psychologist - or a team of psychologists - whose innovative applications in the area of psychological practice and education include - but are not limited to assessment, consultation, instruction, intervention, and prevention. The original development of procedures, methodologies or technical skills that significantly improve the application of psychological knowledge - providing direct and immediate solutions to actualizing the full human potential - will be considered; as well as research informing psychologists on how to better observe, define, and actualize the human spirit.
      The Social Action Award is given to a psychologist or teams of psychologists who have provided outstanding services to communities or clients, from groups which might include but are not limited to: urban inner cities, rural, refugees, minority populations, those affected by war, violence or social inequities. Contributions may be judged or distinguished by virtue of peer recognition, advancement of the public’s recognition of psychology as a profession, relevant professional associations, honors or other meritorious accomplishments denoting excellence as a practitioner; including improvement of public service delivery systems or development of psychologically informed public policy.
       Early Career Contributions will be considered with the following: a statement of the worthiness of the nominee (at least two pages), a recent curriculum vitae, a recent complete bibliography, and a statement of presentations with no more than five reprints or abstracts of presentations.
       Email Nominations to these 3 addresses: Dr Mark Stern (dremstern@aol.com),  Dr. Constance Fischer (fisher@duq.edu ) and Dr.Scott Churchill (bonobo@udallas.edu)     Details about applications are available on the website.
 

Previous newsletters are available at: www.apa.org/divisions/div32
 

Conference Program (to date)

hArt Bohart- How Clients and Therapists Make Therapy Work-
hElizabeth Bugental- Jim Bugental's Contributions to Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy
hDavid J. Cain-Learning and Teaching Empathy
hAnn Weiser Cornell and Glenn Fleisch- Inner Relationship Focusing in Therapy
hErik Craig- The Tao of Love
hErik Craig- Existential Analysis of Dreams in Psychotherapy
hRobert Elliott & Alberto Zuconi- Doing Research on Humanistic Psychotherapy and Training: Practical Strategies for Practice-Based Research, with Live Research Consultation
hRobert Elliott Process-Experiential Therapy: Overview and Demonstration
hConnie Fischer-Journeying through Collaborative Psychological Assessment into Psychotherapy: Building Client Agency, Lived Insight, and Therapeutic
hHarris Friedman- Bioenergetic Analysis: Working with Mind and Body in Psychotherapy
hMaurice Fried man- Healing Through Meeting
hRhonda Goldman- Processing Shame and Vulnerability-
hDavid Gonzalez- The Seminal Contributions of Arthur W. Combs (1912-1999)
hLes Greenberg- Emotion-focused Therapy of Depression: A Process Experiential Approach
hLes Greenberg- Working with emotion in psychotherapy
hDoralee Grindler Katonah- An Introduction to Focusing-Oriented  Therapy
hTom Greening and Jerry Krakowski-Responsibility as a State of Mind: Hellmuth Kaiser's Writing and Carl Rogers Method in Conducting Interviews
hLouis Hoffman, H. Juliett Warner, Christine Buck & Steve Fehl - Existential-Integrative Perspectives on the Psychology of Evil: Clinical Implications
hKevin Keenan & Shawn Rubin- The use of therapeutic enactments in experiential supervision
hAl Mahrer- Experiencing Experiential Psychotherapy:
Transformational Change  In  An Experiential Session
hFred Massarik- Hum anistic Approaches in Group Psychotherapy what to do  when the therapeutic goes beyond one and two
hKerry Moustakas, Diane Blau and Shawn Rubin- Clark Moustakas' Contributions to Humanistic Psychology and Psychotherapy: Founder, Theorist, and Practitioner
hJonathan Raskin- Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World
hDavid Rennie- An Experiential Person-Centered Approach to Psychotherapy
hRobert W. Resnick. & Rita F. Resnick- Two Become One And Then There Are None!  Relationships and Couples Therapy Revisited
hRobert Resnick- Transference, Character in Motion: A Gestalt Therapy Process Approach  to Character, Transference and Countertransference
hNatalie Rogers- Expressive Arts for Therapists
hKirk Schneider - The Experiential Liberation Condition of the Existential-Integrative (EI) Model of Psychotherapy.
hKirk Schneider,  Ilene Serlin & John Galvin - Rollo May and His Existential Legacy: A Twenty-Year Retrospective
hIlene Serlin- Laura Perls, Gestalt, and Kinaesthetic Imagining
hErnesto Spinelli- Exploring the Inter-Relational Worldview of the
Client: an Existential Perspective
hErnesto Spinelli- Human Sexuality: An Existential Perspective
hMark Stern- Addressing Guilt, Remorse and Restitution in doing
humanistic psychotherapy
hKathleen Wall- Lived Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Demonstration of Psychospiritual Integration and Transformation
hArielle Warner- Yoga and Humanistic Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach
hJeanne Watson -Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression: Unfinished Business and Case Formulation
hJeanne Watson- Empathic Resonance: Recent findings from neuroscience and implications for practice
hAlberto Zucconi- A person centered psychotherapist's process oriented compass
hConversation Hours:
     hAl Mahrer
     hLes Greenberg
     hMaurice Friedman
     h Ernesto Spinelli
     h Natalie Rogers
 

Newsletter Report

       As many of you know, our previous newsletter editor, Elli Winer has resigned from her position and we are in a period of transition. At its last Board meeting in January, the Board members expressed an interest in seeing an expanded newsletter in the future, including not only general announcements and news but also articles and columns. We are now working at developing a more substantive newsletter, the first issue of which will be out in the early fall. Fortunately, we have obtained the able and conscientious assistance of Dr. Shawn Rubin  as managing editor and Dr. Kevin Keenan as layout editor. I am confident that this newsletter team will produce some very exciting results in the near future and we hope you will begin to anticipate with confidence the regularity and depth of our new Division 32 Newsletter.
 

The 2nd Annual Focusing Institute Summer School will be held at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York, August 20-26, 2007. This week-long intensive offers the opportunity to study with six master Focusing teachers and to connect with other Focusing enthusiasts from around the world. For further information, visit the Focusing Institute website //
 

New Publications by Humanistic Psychologists:

Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D.'s new book, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice, will be published in the summer of 2007.  Dr. Schneider is the 2004 recipient of the Rollo May award for "outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology" from the Humanistic Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. Also, Dr. Schneider recently conducted Existential Therapy for an APA video series on psychotherapy and with Dr. Ed Mendelowitz, completed the chapter on Existential Psychotherapy for Corsini and Wedding's Current Psychotherapies (2007; 8th ed.).

Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D.'s latest book, Terror in the Holy Land: Inside the Anguish of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, is about the psychosocial issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Kuriansky has developed unique workshops merging eastern and western techniques to facilitate peace within and between (people, cultures) and taught these in countries around the world from Argentina to Austria, and from India to Israel and Iran.  Her previous book was The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tantric Sex. She is a series book editor for Praeger Press and invites Division members to submit book proposals to her for their work to be published.

Ad Hoc Listserv Committee Report              Erik Craig, Co-Chair

     As many of you know the Ad Hoc Listserv committee has been working this year on developing a mission and purpose statement as well as a clear set of guidelines, procedures and policies to strengthen this important venue for supporting the development and application of distinctively human psychology and to provide us with a forum for professional exchange. I am happy to report that the proposal has been submitted to the Board for its review and consideration at its meeting in August. Although some aspects of the proposal still need to be fleshed out of the document, namely the mission statement, on which there seems to be general agreement. The entire, final, approved proposal will be sent out after the Board Meeting in August.
       The tentative Division 32 Listserv Mission Statement is: APA's Division for Humanistic Psychology has established this listserv to support the development and application of distinctively human psychology and to provide humanistic psychologists with a forum for professional exchange and the enrichment of the community of humanistic thinkers and practitioners world wide. Specific purposes aimed at supporting the Division listserv's overall mission are as follows:
h to exchange ideas regarding the human condition in general and humanistic psychology in particular;
hto develop and deepen personal and professional relationships within the humanistic community;
h to inform the community of humanistic psychologists about events and opportunities of interest;
h to support the exchange and development of humanistic ideas and practices;
hto support the exchange and development of humanistic approaches to psychotherapy and counseling;
h to support the development and dissemination of research reports, findings, and methodologies;
h to consider important aspects of the relevance of humanistic psychology in and for today's world;
hto support individuals who are interested in humanistic psychology, whether as psychotherapists, teachers, or researchers;
h to invite and encourage the development of new scholar and practitioners in humanistic psychology by providing opportunities to engage with elder scholars and practitioners; and
h to invite new members of the division as well as students to explore and become active in humanistic psychology.
        The Ad Hoc Committee members have worked diligently on the proposal and are due our collective gratitude for their conscientious efforts. They are Zaynab D'Elia, Sheena Demery, Zeno Franco, Brent Robbins, Mark Stern, and Rick Umbaugh.