{"title":"Fromm-Reichmann’s (1959/1990) Real Loneliness in the Contemporary United States","authors":"Andrew M. Bland","doi":"10.1177/00221678241266372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241266372","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, researchers have noted higher levels of loneliness among younger generations in the United States compared to Europe and Asia, and last year, the U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory about the nation’s loneliness epidemic. Sixty-five years ago, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann published a groundbreaking paper on the topic of real loneliness—which she described as uncommunicable, characterized by a high degree of experiential avoidance, and central in the etiology of psychopathology. Today, that conceptualization seems more relevant than ever and may be helpful for understanding the national differences in loneliness. To supplement Fromm-Reichmann’s recommendation to account for developmental history in real loneliness, in this article, I submit that a broader and deeper understanding of macro- and chronosystemic dimensions also is needed. I validate contextual factors that play into loneliness in the contemporary United States which are already discussed in the literature. Then I explore additional ones—technocracy and cultural disconnection, competitiveness at the expense of cooperation, and, consequently, psychological polarization.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141801372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tribute to My Friend Donna Rockwell","authors":"Nathaniel Granger","doi":"10.1177/00221678241252962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241252962","url":null,"abstract":"We all have the capacity to love, but the courage to do so must be cultivated! Once in a lifetime, if we are lucky, we meet that someone who has against insurmountable odds mastered the courage to love. One who doesn’t simply talk it but whose very being exudes love. I consider myself of all people most fortunate to have befriended such a one in the person of Donna Rockwell. It is only through developing one’s total personality to the capacity of loving one’s neighbor with “true humility, courage, faith and discipline” that one attains the capacity to experience real love, and this should be considered a rare achievement. My friend, Donna Rockwell accomplished this! This little woman, small in stature yet a giant in the lives of so many, dared to love. And for this, Donna will forever be revered as a power-house in my life and in the field of Existential-Humanistic Psychology.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141813404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. C. Highfill, Jessica Cassidy, Kathy Lee, E. W. Pollio, Vinay S. Kotamarti, Justin M. O’Brien, Rie Sharky, Katy McDonald, David Pollio, Carol S. North
{"title":"A Focus Group Study of Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapy for Military Veterans Reintegrating Into Civilian Life","authors":"M. C. Highfill, Jessica Cassidy, Kathy Lee, E. W. Pollio, Vinay S. Kotamarti, Justin M. O’Brien, Rie Sharky, Katy McDonald, David Pollio, Carol S. North","doi":"10.1177/00221678241256143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241256143","url":null,"abstract":"Many veterans returning to civilian life face medical and mental health issues. As there is a stigma of using mental health services, equine-assisted activities and therapy (EAAT) has been considered a nonconventional intervention to support the mental health and well-being of veterans. In this qualitative study, 14 focus groups with 67 participants and program volunteers and staff of a veteran-led EAAT program were conducted to explore perspectives among current and past participants in the program. Five themes emerged: (a) benefits of EAAT, (b) connections with horses, (c) program engagement, (d) equestrian experience related to military experience, and (e) recommendations for the program. In spite of emotional and physical challenges, they indicated that they felt stronger, confident, and fulfilled. The participants developed meaningful relationships with the horses and developed horsemanship skills. Some participants connected their involvement in the program to their past military experience based on interactions with peers in a group setting. Recommendations made by the participants included efforts to increase community awareness and expand the program by including families and adding therapeutic and aftercare components. Findings from this study suggest relevance for care of veterans reintegrating to civilian life from the point of view of individuals participating in EAAT.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure as Ontological Shock? Exploring Diversity Among Social Media Responses to a Congressional UAP Hearing","authors":"Tim Lomas","doi":"10.1177/00221678241251871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241251871","url":null,"abstract":"The topic of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” (UAP) has risen to increasing prominence recently, as exemplified by the Congressional UAP hearing in July 2023. Indeed, some observers interpreted the event as “disclosure” – a process by which authorities, long suspected to have withheld evidence that some UAP are genuinely anomalous (e.g., extraterrestrial), admit this to the public. Whether it actually constituted disclosure is another issue, but it was certainly experienced by some as such. The significance of such disclosure is that some commentators suggested it may precipitate “ontological shock” (a person having their fundamental sense of reality challenged in some way). Whether the hearing did indeed do so is the research question animating this paper, which presents an exploratory, preliminary examination of reactions to the hearing on X (previously Twitter). A Grounded Theory analysis identified 19 themes (involving 76 subthemes), distributed across four categories: concern; positive reactions; skepticism and indifference; and critical engagement. Evidently, even if this event constituted disclosure and/or ontological shock for some people, there were diverse reactions, and collectively the effect was more one of ontological “fracturing.” The paper highlights the complexity of this topic and the need for further research.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam K. Craig, Jay A. Hamm, Patrick Steuer, Bethany L. Leonhardt
{"title":"Navigating Client Deaths in the Community Mental Health Center: A Humanistic Approach to Clinical Supervision","authors":"Adam K. Craig, Jay A. Hamm, Patrick Steuer, Bethany L. Leonhardt","doi":"10.1177/00221678241252961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241252961","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health providers in community mental health centers (CMHCs) often contend with patient deaths but there is little established guidance in the literature in regard to clinical supervision following these losses in general, and making meaning of these experiences specifically. Following a brief review of relevant literature, the authors offer four identified challenges to a meaning-making supervisory approach. Namely, these are (a) determining a supervisory response, (b) disenfranchisement of grief in professionals, (c) a hyperfocus on quantifiable outcomes, and (d) an outsized focus on risk response. The authors contend that a humanistically-oriented, meaning-making response guided by the recovery model provides answers to these challenges, and present a case study demonstrating how these have been navigated in a CMHC.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141111888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Phenomenology and Mindfulness","authors":"Susi Ferrarello, Christos Hadjioannou","doi":"10.1177/00221678241251416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241251416","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue collects papers that explore the relationship between phenomenology and mindfulness with the goal of creating a fruitful dialogue between these two traditions, so as to bring into relief the overlaps and incongruities, exploring historical as well as systematic connections. Both phenomenology and mindfulness are inclusively construed: the former (phenomenology) is understood as an umbrella term that includes philosophers and approaches that follow directly from Brentano’s and Husserl’s phenomenological discoveries. For this reason, the issue will focus on phenomenology as a method as well as a philosophical approach with a major emphasis on Husserl’s, Heidegger’s, and Merleau-Ponty’s approach. The latter (mindfulness) includes a wide range of conceptions of mindfulness, from Buddhist-inspired strands of meditation practices and theories to Stoic-inspired. The journal issue takes into consideration the potential benefits that such a theme would have to clinical psychology by exploring the existing connection between mindfulness, well-being, and self-exploration. In particular, in this special issue we will point out how the phenomenological approach to mindfulness can help to further the understanding of such notions as “attention,” “authenticity,” “time,” “dignity,” and more.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of a Brief Spiritual Intervention on Perceived Stress During COVID-19","authors":"Shawn Wang, Peter Nooteboom, Theodore F. Robles","doi":"10.1177/00221678241252728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241252728","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increased need for self-administered coping strategies to combat the threat to mental health posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. The current study investigated the feasibility of using spiritual connection as a way of coping with chronic stress emerging from the global pandemic. Participants ( N = 122) recruited from a college sample were randomly assigned to complete either daily spiritual connection tasks or a no treatment control group for a week and then completed measures of perceived stress, spiritual health, and spiritual beliefs at baseline, 4-day, and 7-day time points. No differences in perceived stress over the week were found between groups, but participants in the spiritual condition who showed increases in spiritual health showed decreases in perceived stress. These findings may help to illuminate potential pathways of leveraging specific aspects of spirituality to combat chronic, global stress exposures.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Roots of Jewish Consciousness: Parts 1 and 2","authors":"Edward Hoffman, Tass Bey, S. Muramoto","doi":"10.1177/00221678241254185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241254185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Mortality Salience and Religion on Aggression","authors":"Peter K. H. Chew, Patrick K. F. Lin, Cybelle Quek","doi":"10.1177/00221678241252731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241252731","url":null,"abstract":"The current study aimed to examine the effects of mortality salience (MS) and religion on aggression. Participants were 120 students (58.3% females; 73.3% with religion) from a private university in Singapore. They were randomly assigned to either the MS condition or the control condition, asked to remember a time when they were deeply hurt or offended by a person, and provided an opportunity for revenge by sticking pins into a voodoo doll that represented the person. The results showed that participants in the MS condition inserted a significantly higher number of pins into the voodoo doll than participants in the control condition. However, this effect was not moderated by religion and extent of belief in God. Limitations include the consideration of participants with religion as one group for data analysis. Future research directions include recruiting a larger and more diverse group of participants.","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140985609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Considerations on the Psychedelic Landscape","authors":"Anthony P. Bossis, Charles S. Grob","doi":"10.1177/00221678241246631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678241246631","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47290,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Humanistic Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141004591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}