Hello.

I am in the process of transitioning from Face Book, and although I’ll keep this list going, also from this list.  I am focusing.  I’ve got (who knows) maybe… MAYBE ten years left?  (My dad died at 84).  So, I am doing two things that are connected. I am creating a web site and a Substack account. The website is postsecularpsychotherapy.com, and the Substack is titled Postseculastonishing. I have a proposal for a book now being considered at Routledge, but if they don’t accept it, I will serialize it at Substack.  I will write and develop community at both locations, and I’ll edit various videos I’ve done into more cohesive units and make new ones.  We will see what happens.  Since the post-secular affects research, I will be talking about that as well and inviting post-secular considerations of research methodology in light of post-secularity, especially as that relates to research on psychotherapy.

Here is the “about” piece for Postseculastonishing:

This site will develop the application of post-secular thought to psychotherapy. That means we will be exploring both post-secularity and psychotherapy. The post-secular is an update of some assertions from the Enlightenment and relevant to politics, international relationships, gender and sexuality, sociology, religion, spirituality, and theology, but it is much more than a simple return of religion. The type of psychotherapy about which I will concern myself is one characterized by the interpretation of experience in a complex adapting field that cannot exist if there are no individuals in various kinds of relationships. 

A great deal about the kind of therapy we practice (field, relationships, phenomenology, experience, etc) is relevant to the sociology inherent to post-secularism. It is a foundational level consideration of what is going on that provides a philosophical base for spiritually-integrated psychotherapy,  but it’s not simplistic.  I ran across, for instance, an interesting article by a young woman who is investigating the “Queering of Post-secularity” by conducting sociological research in Bangladesh.  It’s one of the reasons I like this subject. It attracts all kinds of people. It makes me think.

Phil

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