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These Black Kids: Culturally Responsive Poetry and The Lived Experience of African American Adolescent Girls

January 22, 2024

There is a space that resides between girlhood and womanhood. This space contains what is personal, familial, and societal. It is the place that transforms Black girls into Black women. This is also the place that beckons us to create our own identities and definition of Black womanhood. These Black Kids: The Lived Experience of African American Adolescent Girls Writing Poetry uncovers the voices of teen girls writing their way to Black womanhood together. This book exposes the journey of learning strength through vulnerability; (re)defining love and recovering from grief and suffering. These Black Kids offers the writings and lived experiences of three adolescent girls, “Keisha,” “Mishaps,” and “Blue,” as they uncover their muted voices to speak with truth, courage, and conviction. This is the space where the “girlchild” learns what it means to be free. Grounded in phenomenology, Black feminism, lived experience, and the poetic voices of girls and women. This book is indispensable for anyone seeking to integrate culturally responsive poetry into their own teaching, community work, research, counseling practice, coursework, and healing.

Obviously, I’m Not from Here

June 26, 2023

Available for Preorder. Anticipated ship date is September 15, 2023.

Obviously, I’m Not from Here: Embodying a Sense of Belonging with the Help of Horses is essential reading for anyone involved in working with horses and humans. It offers a process-oriented, embodied, and relational approach to navigating the complexities of understanding the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through honest and personal examples, Dr. Lac outlines the impact of not attending to cultural competencies rooted in cultural humility when working with marginalized populations, and how cultivating an attitude of cultural humility and reflection can help to increase our capacity to engage in crucial conversations. Dr. Lac encourages readers to adopt a BRAVER framework and creates an active reflective experience throughout the book. Drawing on her experiences with horses, Dr. Lac invites readers to consider how the power and oppression humans hold over horses is in direct parallel with how we treat other humans. This volume also showcases the work of The HERD Institute® through chapter contributions from HERD instructors, graduates, and students, illustrating how horses can help us all find a sense of belonging.

Eros & Psyche (Volume 2: Spiritual & Clinical Perspectives)

July 15, 2023

Human beings are sexual beings. While this is an existential reality, the way individuals relate to sexuality—their own and the sexuality of others—varies significantly. In our contemporary world, understanding what it means to be sexual beings is ever-evolving. Eros and Psyche is an in-depth encounter with sexuality through diverse existential perspectives. In this 2-volume series, many leaders in the existential field explore topics including how Heidegger and Foucault could reinvigorate your sex life, sexuality and the arts, finding God in the bedroom, and working with sexual attraction in psychotherapy. Eros and Psyche is essential reading for existential scholars, researchers, and therapists. Volume 2 focuses on clinical and spiritual perspectives with chapters by Tom Pyszczynski, Peggy Kleinplatz, Susi Ferrarello, Nisha Gupta, Steve Simpson, Louis Hoffman, Melissa Racho, and others.

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Eros & Psyche (Volume 1: Philosophical & Theoretical Perspectives)

November 23, 2023

Human beings are sexual beings. While this is an existential reality, the way individuals relate to sexuality—their own and the sexuality of others—varies significantly. In our contemporary world, understanding what it means to be sexual beings is ever-evolving. Eros and Psyche is an in-depth encounter with sexuality through diverse existential perspectives. In this 2-volume series, many leaders in the existential field explore topics including how Heidegger and Foucault could reinvigorate your sex life, sexuality and the arts, finding God in the bedroom, and working with sexual attraction in psychotherapy. Eros and Psyche is essential reading for existential scholars, researchers, and therapists.

Volume 1 of Eros and Psyche focuses on philosophical and theoretical perspectives with chapters by Heidi Levitt, Zenobia Morrill, Brent Dean Robbins, Stanley Krippner, Sara K. Bridges, Digby Tantum, and more.

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Wound Care

October 15, 2023

Anyone who has been wounded will resonate deeply with Wound Care. Through mostly short, flash length essays that are part poetry, part narrative, Rich Furman brings the reader on an emotional journey traveling the full array of emotions: sadness, joy, grief, contentment, melancholy, and glee. A book that pushes the edge of literary boundaries, Wound Care explores the nature of human woundedness. Divorce, disability, and the complexities of being a father are all torn apart, unpacked, and reconfigured. Honest, vulnerable, and urgent, this is a collection of essays that are poetic medicine for the aches of existence.

Weaving Ourselves Whole

November 2, 2023

Weaving Ourselves Whole: A Guide for Forming a Transformational Expressive Arts Circle is the inspiring story of an expressive arts circle that has met for over twelve years. Weaving their collective insights and experiences of conscious creativity with the colorful threads of imagination, artful expression, and friendship, the authors demonstrate how expressive arts and co-creating via their creative spirit circle process has the potential to lead to personal and spiritual growth.

Expressive arts circles speak to the wonder and transformational power of creative awakening and tap into our collective potential as we attempt to meet life’s challenges. Creativity circles speak across cultures and help heal our world through personal and collective transformation. By changing ourselves, we change our world.

This remarkable book is a treasure full of creative tools and inspirational resources. Weaving Ourselves Whole serves and guides professionals in the fields of expressive arts, education, mental health, and coaching, as well as students, artists, individuals, and groups who have a desire to cultivate creativity and support social transformation. Ultimately, Weaving Ourselves Whole sparks imagination and invites us on a collective adventure to live to our fullest potential.

Open a Window: An Artbook from Therapists

October 15, 2023

Psychotherapy is a science, but many argue that it is also an art—the art of connecting, the art of listening, the art of opening “new windows,” the art of creatively seeking new possibilities of being-in-the-world. Using art in psychotherapy is a powerful tool for expressing what is inexpressible. Many therapists not only use art in therapy but are artists themselves. This book is a collaborative effort to bring together the artwork and the writings of 10 therapists. It endeavors to “Open a  Window” to the world of therapy.

Life Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World

June 16, 2024

Life-Enhancing Anxiety makes a bold proposal: It is not less anxiety that we need today, but more, at least of a certain kind of anxiety. The book comprises a collection of original and previously published essays that converge on what Schneider calls life-enhancing anxiety.  Life-enhancing anxiety is the invigorating degree of anxiety needed to become passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. Set against our anxiety-avoidant times, life-enhancing anxiety enables us to “live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.” The potential for life-enhancing anxiety begins at the moment of birth—the point at which we shift from relative nonexistence and unity to sudden, abrupt existence and disunity. This juncture is both daunting and wondrous. Yet it is the management of the juncture by both caretakers and the culture at large that is all important; for it is that management that forms the bedrock for our capacity to deeply live, or to skim only the surfaces; to attain courage, or to seek refuge in gimmicks. The book goes on to elaborate this developmental arc and apply it to a range of personal and social challenges. Among these challenges are Schneider’s personal struggle with life-enhancing anxiety; the role of life-enhancing anxiety in the cultivation of a sense of awe (humility and wonder) toward all existence; the role of life-enhancing anxiety in the arts, particularly film and literature; applications within the discipline of psychology; applications to social and political crises (war and violence in particular); and applications to spirituality and religion. Schneider concludes the book with a brief section on the relevant research on life-enhancing anxiety, followed by an Epilogue. The Epilogue summarizes the implications of life-enhancing anxiety for a more sane, sustainable, and awe-informed world.

 

Who Are We After the Pandemic? Psychology, Technology, and Relationships

November 23, 2023

The pandemic has disrupted our way of life, our relationships, our way of being. This collective limit situation is historically unprecedented. Just as unprecedented is the extreme virtualization of love, work, and study, caused by social distancing and isolation. This has also activated a paradox in our emotional bonds: the experience of the other as a risk and, at the same time, as a loved one we long to be with. Much of what we took for granted in our lives has been hampered: going out with friends, traveling, hugging, celebrating a birthday, and even grieving for someone who is no longer with us.

How do we relate to each other, to the world, and to ourselves after the pandemic? Will we internalize technological automatism, or will we succeed in channelling our humanity through technology? What consequences will the chronic uncertainty and the back-and-forth of the illusion of a “return to normalcy” have on us? What are the trends in contemporary psychological suffering, and what forms is it taking? What are the human resources that this existential crisis calls upon? These are some of the questions that the authors try to address in Who We Are After the Pandemic?.

We are in uncharted territory. The authors test possible horizons and paths, aware that change continues to take place on a daily basis. This exploration has an integrative and humanistic compass as it outlines its cartographies in interaction with clinical psychological experience, empirical research, and psychological, philosophical, and sociological thought. The journey is collective and individual, social and subjective, and seeks the reconstruction of meaning and bonds.

The Friendliest Place in the Universe: Love, Laughter, and Stand Up Comedy in Berlin

April 2, 2022

Dismayed by the divisiveness of the Trump/Brexit era, anthropologist Hillary S. Webb began to fear that the better angels of our nature had deserted us entirely—if they had ever existed at all. In the Fall of 2017, Webb traveled to Berlin, Germany, for a week’s vacation. There, she found renewed hope in an unlikely place: Cosmic Comedy, an international stand-up venue described as “The Friendliest Comedy Club in Europe.” Down in that dark, beer-soaked basement, Webb watched with awe as the club’s eccentric-but-lovable co-promoters, Dharmander Singh and Neil Numb, gathered a group of culturally and demographically diverse comedians and audience members, transforming them over the course of an evening from strangers into allies through laughter. Convinced that Cosmic Comedy offered a model of togetherness that could help heal the divisions between us, Webb returned to Berlin a few months later with the intent of uncovering the club’s recipe for what is known in humanistic anthropology as communitas or “collective joy.” As with all journeys of the mind and heart, Webb’s investigations revealed more than she bargained for, including the unwelcome realization that collective joy has a dark side and that she, herself, was as susceptible to its intoxicating influence as anyone else. The result is a humorous, hopeful examination of the nature of human togetherness.

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