Much hard work went into this, over many years. But here is a valid method to research life. It will be honed and improved over years to come. #existential

Slow Simmer vs. Quick Boil Awe | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/awaken…

New Interview: Jeff Sugarman on Psychology, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Personhood A thread on our latest conversation with Jeff Sugarman, a leading scholar in theoretical and philosophical psychology. Read: madinamerica.com/2025/03/psycho…

Jeff Sugarman critiques how mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideology of neoliberalism, shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psy…

A past president of APA Division 24, Sugarman has spent his career pushing psychology to critically engage with history, philosophy, and power. APA Division 24

The Center’s affiliated colleague, Justin Karter, examines how psychology, shaped by historical and cultural forces, can isolate individuals and reinforce systemic harm. Learn more below! madinamerica.com/2025/01/how-ps…

The Center’s affiliated colleague, Justin Karter, reports on new findings showing most people prefer depth-oriented therapy—but many are not receiving it. Read more here: madinamerica.com/2025/03/most-p…

Matthew Clemente & David Goodman explore Freud’s take on desire and intimacy in their latest @psych_today piece. 🔗 Learn more here: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-hu…

“Psychology has built an entire discipline that explores humanity with the exclusion of the other.” —David Goodman, Director of the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics, founder of the Psychology & the Other conference, pst-president APA Division 24

Past Div24 president David Goodman Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics on the Mad In America podcast

We were grateful to welcome Point Park University's Brent Robbins (Brent Dean Robbins) to the CPHE lab, thanks to the coordination of our colleague Justin Karter APA Division 24. His reflections on psychology’s history and the healing power of a hermeneutic of love left a lasting impression.

The Certainties of Therapy-Speak Are Contributing to Our Social Collapse A provocative new paper argues that therapeutic culture may be entrenching, not healing, our collective wounds. By Justin Karter madinamerica.com/2025/04/the-ce…

Laurence Kirmayer speaks with Ayurdhi Dhar about culture, psychiatry, trauma, and why metaphor matters in how we experience—and respond to—suffering. Full interview: madinamerica.com/2025/05/the-po…

Call for proposals: Faith, Fiction, and Flourishing takes place Nov 6–7 at Boston College. Join us in exploring how literature and faith shape human flourishing. Submit abstracts by June 15 to [email protected] 🔗 Learn more: bc.edu/content/bc-web…

Manon Voice joins Psychology and the Other 2025 as a plenary speaker. A poet, emcee, and activist, she blends art and justice to tell the human story. Learn more: bc.edu/content/bc-web…

How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter By James Moore madinamerica.com/2025/08/how-to…

The APA Division 24 conference will meet from May 14 to 16, 2026, at York University in Toronto. My presidential theme for the conference is Madness, Mysticism, and the Reenchantment of Psychology. Submit your proposal here: lnkd.in/egDz4jcY

The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology conference APA Division 24 call for proposals is now open.

The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology conference in 2026 will feature the theme Madness, Mysticism and the Reenchantment of Psychology. American Psychological Association APA Division 45 Society for Humanistic Psychology MadStudiesNetwork #madstudies #criticalpsych #philosophy