Please let this page help you decide if the PMTH forum is right for you. 

PMTH stands for "Postmodern Therapies."  It is a list intended primarily for therapists, graduate students, and scholars with a special interest in psychotherapy.  Others can join, but they must be sponsored by a listmember and their application will be reviewed by the listowners and an advisory board.  Do you fit in the group that PMTH is tailored for? Or, if not, do you already know someone who is a member of the list who will sponsor you? If so, you need to click on the E-mail form at the bottom of this page and write us a letter telling us how you fit in. 

If you do join PMTH, you will see that the discussion topics on PMTH can vary widely, but you can anticipate an emphasis on postmodern topics which discuss the meaning, advantages and disadvantages of postmodern thinking for therapists.  We consider the heart of our own postmodernism to be a quest to create productive conversation in which people generally feel that their understanding of discussed issues moves forward in a collaborative way.  We value disagreement, but we encourage disagreement to be stated moderately. 

I say "we" because this list is the creation of 7 people who were dissatisfied with the climate on another list.  Leonard Bohanon, Peter Rober, Catherine Levine, SY Yusim, Tom Hicks, and Craig Smith serve as an advisory group to the primary listowner, Lois Shawver (which is me).  Leonard will serve as a back-up listowner.  All of us will be trying to create a site in which productive conversation (paralogy) can flourish. We want a conversation that can move us all to the frontier of this new literature and help each of us discover our evolving voice in this discussion. 

If this sounds like the list for you, please write me,  Lois Shawver, by clicking here or the co-administrator of the PMTH list, Leonard Bohanon, by clicking here  and you will be provided with an already addressed E-mail form. Just use this form to tell us a little about yourself.  Are you a professional therapist?  Or a scholar with an interest in therapy?   If so, one of us will start the process of subscribing you. Sometimes, due to the way the list is structured, this may take a day or two. If you have not heard from us, however, in a couple of days, please feel free to get back to us and push the process along, as sometimes I can get bogged down. When you are subscribed, you will get a subscription notice immediately. Probably you will begin receiving mail, as well, for this is becoming a quite lively list. However, if that is not so, you can address the PMTH list directly, once you're a subscriber, by posting to: clicking here.

Also, to help you decide about joining our list, visit our newsletter. 
..Lois Shawver 
  Leonard Bohanon 
and the PMTH advisory group: 
Rober, Levine, Yusim, Hicks & Smith