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additional info on Bacigalupe, Gonzalo
Some CV facts (the modern perspective): I am an Assistant Professor
at the University of Massachusetts Boston (this is my fourth year here),
at the Graduate College of Education, directing this year the Master/CAGS
MFT Track in the Counseling Dept. I am also a research affiliate at the
Mauricio Gaston Institute for Public Policy and Community Development.
Finally, I also consult and have a private practice mostly in the trauma/supervision
areas. You can visit my modest website for other vitae things. My
research and clinical practice right now attempts to respond to questions
like: How do professional discourses construe Latinos and how we suppose
to intervene with them in counseling/consulting and other professional
venues? What is the meaning and the "realities" of Latino's access to health?
What are conversations that lead people to cooperate and move forward when
the situation is frequently diagnosed as dangerous and very conflictive
as in the case of child protective cases?a native Chilean trained as a
family therapist (at the craze of Maturana's rediscovery by Paul Dell in
the U.S.) there and then did a doctoral in Amherst at a lucky point in
time since so many good people were relating to each other there (Janine
Roberts, Lynn Hoffman, Von Glasersfeld, Vernon Cronen, Sara Cobbs, Marcelo
Pakman, and other social constructionist minds). Some CV facts (the modern
perspective): I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts
Boston (this is my fourth year here), at the Graduate College of Education,
directing this year the Master/CAGS MFT Track in the Counseling Dept. I
am also a research affiliate at the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Public
Policy and Community Development. Finally, I also consult and have a private
practice mostly in the trauma/supervision areas. You can visit my
modest website for other vitae things. My research and clinical practice
right now attempts to respond to questions like: How do professional discourses
construe Latinos and how we suppose to intervene with them in counseling/consulting
and other professional venues? What is the meaning and the "realities"
of Latino's access to health? What are conversations that lead people to
cooperate and move forward when the situation is frequently diagnosed as
dangerous and very conflictive as in the case of child protective cases?
Publications include my writings about "Writing in Therapy as a participatory
approach" (Journal of Family Therapy, 1996) and edited a special issue
of Journal of Systemic Therapies (1998) about" Training and Consulting
in the Land of Others", this is besides a couple of chapters about Latinos
and Family Therapy (2000), and one about interpersonal and systemic theories
of personality.
additional info on Katherine
Levine:
Aging hippy and religious wanderer: began as a WASP became a non Christian
Quaker converted and became an Orthodox Jew following marriage, continue
to keep Kosher at home and to observe the Sherbet, but also have strong
Buddhist and Quaker leanings. Social worker: MSS from Bryn Mawr in
1961,
worked in child welfare, medical, psychiatric services in Pennsylvania,
Vermont, New York. Have taught in one or another capacity at Columbia
University School of Social Work since 1968. Took a 12 year sabbatical
from professional status to become a special need foster parent.
Provided non-secure detention to six boys and or girls at a time.
This
meant 366 kids each charged with being delinquents or in need of
supervision lived in our home as members of our family for an average
of
four weeks each. This experience turned me away from modernist thinking
toward narrative and other post modern ideas--becoming a parent teaches
you how little you really know. Two books and a business have grown
out of
this foster parent experience. The books: When Good Kids Do Bad
Things
and Parents Are People Too. Both are trade books, not scholarly
books.
The business: Emotional Fitness Training, Inc. (EFT). EFT seeks to
make
money doing good. Physical fitness programs improve physical
health; EFT
programs improve mental health. Pay the rent jobs: Adjunct professor
teaching Adolescent course at CUSW; program manager for Visiting Nurse
Service of New York--program I manage is a hospital diversion and
consultation service operating as a wrap around, individualized care,
family driven community mental health program in the Mott Haven section
of
the South Bronx, NY. (Read Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol for
a
description of this poorest community district in the US.). Loves of
my
life: husband David, two birth sons, all children, all animals even
snakes
and insects (trained polo ponies during my teen and young adult years),
trees and other plants, the beauty of this world, poetry, reading,
good
jokes, and my friends including those on this list.
suspended disbelief - (comment
composed by Lois
Shawver)
It has been several years since I first heard Katherine
Levine tell a story that has stayed with me. I found the story
powerful. I no longer remember if it was Katherine that invented
the word 'suspended disbelief' to describe what she did, but I think the
term serves well to represent it.
The story was that Levine was doing therapy with a young
adolescent girl who had been raped. In the therapy session the girl
asked, "Since I have been raped, does that mean I am no longer a virgin?"
Levine responded in a way that feels quite natural to me.
She said, "Oh, no. You don't stop being a virgin just because your
raped!"
But the girl's eyes glazed over and Katherine saw this, and
she said, "But it doesn't feel that way to you, does it?"
And the girl shook her head and began talking about how
she felt.
This seemed to me to represent listening at its best.
Levine expressed a point of view quite naturally and sympathetically, too,
but her mind was not closed by her own point of view. Although she
disbelieved in the girls' changed status that would make her no longer
a virgin, although she had some impulse to try to convince the girl of
that, this "knowledge" (or opinion) was suspended and what became important
was the girl's point of view.
I think therapists do this all the time. Levine
is not alone, but somehow her presentation of this case made the process
clearer for me. It is as if the therapist moves out of the telling
mode and into the listening mode. I think it is an micro event in
the process of therapy, and that as therapists we can learn to notice this
in ourselves and even induce it.
Additional information on Jerry Gale
I direct the doctoral MFT Program at the University of Georgia.
I am
married, no children at this time, with 2 dogs. I have been married
three times, same person. No divorces, just different rituals (civil,
Jewish, Budhist). I have interests in
improvisational theater performances, tai chi, yoga, Budhist
philosophy, and racketball. My therapy is influenced by a varied
history of experiences (as both client and therapist) ranging from
bio-energetics, psychodrama, Fisher-Hoffman therapy, meditation,
Adlerian, strategic, structural, Ericksonian, Milan, CLS, solution
focused, narrative. Currently I have been doing research on
mediation skills and conversation analysis of therapeutic
conversations. I have lots of interests in qualitative research. I
am
planning on attending the Narrative Therapy Conference in Australia
next February and am very excited about that. Currently (and
frequently) I am struggling with how to develop and maintain a
quality mft program, do all the various activities of my job, do more
clinical work, and have a life away from work. I have written one
book (Conversation analysis of therapeutic discourses) and edited a
book with Les Steffe (Constructivism in education) which was based
on
an international conference on alterative epistemologies in education
in 1992 held at Georgia (authors include Gergen, Shotter, Tomm,
Auerswald, Wertch, von Glasersfeld and many many more) and written
a
number of papers for various mft journals.
manfred m straehle
Who am I? and why am I here?
Sometimes the most difficult question answer for the self.
Ill begin by stating that Im a 25 year old male enrolled in the master's
level counseling psychology program in my 2nd year at New York University.
Also, I am working towards a masters in Measurement and Evaluation
in
Psychology at NYU.
My influences of constructivism and Peppers--organismic world view was
influenced by Jay S. Efran whom I was a student of and Dr. Willis Overton
both are at Temple University. Jay S. Efran is my mentor and is well
versed
in many theories he is one of the interpreters of Maturana and Varela.
And
from these two people I have been unable to shake off my views of
constructivism. From Efran, I have learned about his mentor
George Kelly. Also, I have learned of and admire Sullivan, Thomas
Szass(sp), Maturana and Varela, Foerester and Glasserfeld, Neimeyer,
M.
Erickson, Perls, and Whitaker.
My philosophical interest include Henri Bergson, Hericlitus, Vaihinger,
Derrida, Lyotard, Witt, Von Foerester, Glasserfel, Maturana, Varela,
Popper, Einstein, Confuscious and some that I can't think of at the
moment.
Well the why will be continued but most of all its a great place to learn.
that is my short biography
Manfred
My name is Ulf Korman. I am 50 and have been working as a child psychiatrist
since 1977.
Between 1984 and 1993 I worked as a director for a small child
psychiatric
clinic in the southern part of Sweden, in the small city of Karlshamn.
Our
catchment area has about 55000 people and child psychiatry is the only
facility for family therapy and other kinds of therapy where children
are
involved. We are two child psychiatrists, 5 psychologists and 3 social
workers and the focus is on therapy. I still work in the clinic but
now as a
consultant (the english meaning). The clinic has always been focused
on
family therapy but when I started there I tried to change focus from
structural work to Milanese work as I had been very inspired by the
Milan
team from around 1982. We started with our own " Milan" team 1985 and
we had
a few exciting years that we also wrote about in Human Systems-an English
journal. My main therapeutic source is still the Milan group and especially
Cecchin has meant a lot to me. Amongst other things I love his irreverence
and ability to think in terms of usefulness instead of helfulness.
In the
clinic we also have had Steve de Shazer and Insoo KIm Berg as supervisors
for two years so they have also been very influential and I use a lot
of SFT
ideas ( in my own vintage) in my work.
One of my main interests for many years has been to try to find out
whether
we do any good for people who come to us and if we do-for whom and
how, and
1994 I started on a PhD-research project following 75 randomised patients
in
the clinic and my idea was to use both qualitative and quantitative
measures. Unfortunatley I am not much of a researcher and I am quite
fedup
with the project, but I am trying hard to go through with the follow
up one
year after the first contact.
I live with my wife and 11-year old Felicia in a very small village
on the
Baltic sea ( Ahus) and we also have a son, 24, who studies medicine
and a
daughter who studies the violin. I am a big fan of classical music
and
playing the clarinet, especially with and in a symphony orchestra are
amongst the highlights in my life.
Questions?????
Warmly Ulf
Sartre is famous for his statement that, for humans, "existence precedes essence." By this he means that we are born, we exist, before "we are who we are." In this early, primitive form of human existence, we are, like an amoeba, only passive recipients for incoming sensations. Our sensations may be more complex than those of an amoeba but they do not yet have meaning for who we are. Sartre calls a person who experiences this primitive form of consciousness a 'being-in-itself.' Think of an infant who is simply taken care of. There are no projects, no dreams, no visions, but also no shame or pride.
When our personalities come into being, then we become what Sartre calls a 'being-for-itself' which means we begin the human project of continuously creating ourselves in the image of who we want to be. It is not only that we create ourselves as in professional images by going to school and making that happen, but it is that we humans become preoccupied with the everyday project of continuously creating ourselves, controlling and choosing how we dress, what car we drive, what we say to people. How we engage in this continuous self-creation project, our style, determines who we are, but we cannot escape the project. We might say, "I don't want to be a person overly concerned with how I look," but then we become a person who tries not to be "overly concerned." It is for this reason that Sartre made his famous statement that the human being is 'comdemned to be free.' This means, we cannot stop this continuous preocupation with creating ourselves.
In the writings we will look at here, Sartre is trying to discover how it is that a human being goes from a simple, primitive 'being-in-itself' that is not preoccupied with self-creation to what is normal for humans, a 'being-for-itself' who is preoccupied with self-creation. We will be studying excerpts from Sartre's most important work, Being and Nothingness. This work was first published in French in 1953.
Additional details on George Spears:
George Spears has appeared in one postmodern stage production, 'Malcolm:
A Demonstration', authored by Fred Newman and produced at the Castillo
Theatre, Soho, New York City; active in Third Party Politics, founding
member of the New York State Independence Party, founding member of the
National Reform Party, ran for New York State Assembly office against
the present House Speaker, currently enrolled in the Eastside Institutes
social therapy training program studying to become a licensed social
therapist; applying, MSW graduate student, September '99, Adelphi
University; is of the opinion that a combination of politics, psychology
and culture informed by a progressive postmodernist outlook is the path
to collectively develop toward transforming the way humans relate to one
another.
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