Politics – Pluralistic Practice

Pluralistic Therapy Meets Global Mental Health

Lynne Gabriel, Christine Kupfer, John McLeod, Kate Smith and Mhairi Thurston A group of members of the pluralistic network recently participated in a two-day on-line conference on Pluralizing Global Mental Health Care: crisis, and critique, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology. We presented two papers –…

Pluralism as Diversity in Practice: But What about Indigenous and Transpersonal Approaches?

December 9, 2021 Critiques Cultural diversity Cultural resources Person-centred Personal Philosophy Politics Spirituality No Comments

Joe Bartholomew, trainee psychotherapist, Brighton Therapy Centre; radicalcultureint@gmail.com; www.radicalculture.co.uk On my journey as a trainee therapist I’ve previously worked as a trainee NHS psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) within an IAPT service. This involved using a CBT model, as well as CBT based interventions when working with clients. More recently in…

The Strength that We Find in Our New Everyday

January 5, 2021 Cultural resources Leadership Personal Policy Politics Strengths and Resources 4 Comments

Kate Smith PhD, Abertay University At the start of 2021 we entered another lockdown, another phase of potential isolation, changes to our usual habits and preferences and, for many, the removal of essential cultural resources and supports. I have been dwelling on how pluralism responds to difficulties such as these…

Pluralism: A Home for Gender Fluidity?

July 29, 2020 Gender Personal Politics 7 Comments

Dan Jones is a mental health social worker in the University of Roehampton’s Student Support Services and with the Enabling Assessment Service London. He is also a trainee psychotherapist at the Minster Centre. As I write this, I am again feeling a profound sense of anxiety – an experience which…

A Plural Personal History: Can Pluralism ‘Mek Room for All of We’?

June 22, 2020 Critiques Cultural diversity Personal Politics Training 12 Comments

Paula Watson, Humanistic Psychotherapy Trainee, Juneteenth 2020 Until I started school, I was raised by Windrush grandparents in the heart of a Caribbean community in 1970s London. My grandfather had been a subsistence farmer back home in Jamaica, and he still kept many chickens and rabbits in the backyard despite…

Leadership and Solidity in a Time of Crisis

March 11, 2020 Leadership Philosophy Politics 7 Comments

Marcella Finnerty, College President, IICP Core to our training as psychotherapists is to trust in the process, to sit with not knowing. To stay calm with the messy vulnerability and uncertainty of life. We are taught to meet and greet the most difficult of feelings, to walk with clients on their…

A Soulful Solstice

December 17, 2019 Personal Philosophy Politics Shared decision making 2 Comments

Lynne Gabriel, School of Psychological and Social Sciences, York St John University For me, the winter solstice is an important time for simply being, for reflecting on the year and for heralding the return of the light. I am usually to be found winding down at this point; feeling mellow,…