Dear Division 24 members,
Hope everyone is well. This is a call for submissions for our Winter newsletter. The newsletter highlights the work of the division, columns from division leadership, and announcements from members. We also hope to solicit brief essays from division members on a general theme that intersects with the interests of STPP members. This is an opportunity to publish early thoughts on new projects and we especially encourage student members to submit.
Before I introduce the theme, I would also like to welcome our incoming newsletter editor Micah Ingle who will fully take over the newsletter responsibilities next year. Micah is a doctoral student at the University of West Georgia. He is currently involved in working with Division 32 and we are excited to have him work with us. His interests include the intersection of sociopolitical/economic structures and mental health, individualism in psychology, gender, liberation psychology, and mythopoetic perspectives inspired by Jungian thought.
For the issue, which we plan to publish in December, we invite columns from division leaders and executive board members about their goals and plans for the STPP and upcoming events. We also invite short essays from members and students on the theme "Psychology for Humans: Can psychological humanities include those psychological science neglects?". Below you can see a longer description of the theme. All submissions should be between 2-5 double-spaced pages, in APA style, and emailed directly to me and Micah Ingle by December 8. Please feel free to reach out with questions.
Theme: Psychology for Humans: Can psychological humanities include those psychological science neglects?
The predominant approach to psychology as a positivistic science has, through its processes, methods, content and institutions, systematically neglected and marginalized those outside the statistical and imagined norm. In doing so the field has narrowed our collective conception of who gets to be a psychological subject—who counts as humans are the humans we count. Alternative approaches to knowledge construction with deep roots in the conceptual tools, ethical commitments, and practices of the humanities may serve to broaden and unsettle the field’s conception of the human subject. We invite submissions that both apply and interrogate the methods and literature from the psychological humanities (e.g. history, philosophy, political theory, science and technology studies, feminism, literature, psychoanalysis, critical theory, disability and mad studies) and explore the theoretical and practical implications of this approach.
Regards,
Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, WI
Science News Writer, Mad in America
Newsletter Editor, APA's Division 24