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Psychology Today: Our Human Condition
Why We Want to Be Wanted
Sex is often not just about sex.
"Desire is that which humanizes us by helping us to overcome our basic needs for the sake of love."
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Conference Highlight
Psychology & the Other London 2024
An annual gathering designed to rejuvenate psychology through engagement with philosophy, theology, and other humanities, attracting a diverse group of professionals. This community seeks to innovate approaches to understanding human identity, addressing suffering, and improving responses to the needs of others.
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Publication Highlight
Undeclared
Discover a university where self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose are paramount. In Undeclared, Chris Higgins envisions a transformative higher education that fosters personal growth and vocational clarity.
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Press Highlight
Psychological Humanities Minor
Boston College introduces an innovative minor in Psychological Humanities this fall, designed to weave together diverse disciplines and expand traditional psychological perspectives. The program aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, blending the study of psychology with philosophical, ethical, and artistic inquiries into human nature.
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Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology
Join us on June 14-16, 2024 at Boston College for a vibrant discussion that challenges the status quo and reimagines psychological knowledge. The full program is now available.
The Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics promotes conversation between the psychological sciences and humanities to advance our understanding of the enduring ethical questions at the heart of human existence.
Upcoming Offerings
Honoring Philip Cushman
Philip Cushman, a moral and political luminary in the field of psychology, died on August 22, 2022, the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
A beloved teacher, scholar, and clinician, Phil is remembered for his rich analysis of how the self has been conceptualized in the field of psychology, along with his historical and critical exploration of the moral and political horizons of psychotherapy.
With the establishment of this endowed Fund, created to honor Phil and foster his moral imagination for the field of psychology, we will continue this critically important work for generations to come.
“The argument over the question of whether or not psychology is or is not a philosophical science is, for psychology, a struggle for its very existence.”