CONTACT THE IPJP
The
IPJP is currently
edited by Dr Christopher Stones of Rhodes University in South Africa:
 | Professor C R Stones,
Editor-in-Chief, IPJP,
Department of Psychology, Rhodes
University,
Grahamstown, SOUTH AFRICA
Professor
Christopher Stones has enjoyed a lengthy academic and research career,
predominantly based at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa,
in the course of which he has taught in the areas of physiological,
clinical, forensic, social and research psychology. He is
Vice-President of the South African Association for Psychotherapy and
past Chairman of the South African Society for Clinical Psychology.
Editor-in-Chief of the Indo-Pacific
Journal of Phenomenology since 2003, he is also on the
editorial panels of two other on-line journals. An
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with which he is
also registered as a Chartered Psychologist, Professor Stones is
registered with the South African professional board as both a research
and a clinical psychologist, and conducts a part-time clinical practice
with particular focus on adolescents, young adults and families, as
well as offering long-term psychotherapy. Additionally, he is regularly
called on to serve as an “expert witness” in
medico-legal
(civil and criminal) court proceedings. Using natural
scientific quantitative methodologies and
phenomenological approaches, Professor Stones’s research
interests are
in the areas of identity, attitudes and attitude change,
phenomenological praxis and methodologies, abnormal psychology and
psychotherapy, spirituality and religious experience, in all of which
areas he has published extensively.
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Executive Secretary is Dr van der Mescht of Rhodes University in South
Africa
 | Professor Hennie van
der Mescht
Head, Department of Education, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown,
SOUTH AFRICA Dr
van der Mescht has published in the area of management in education,
and has a particular interest in qualitative research methodology.
His areas of research interest include
educational leadership and management and literary theory. Professor
van der Mescht is responsible for co-ordinating the
submission of articles dealing with the journal's specialist theme, Phenomenology in
Education. Contributions should - in the first instance - be
sent to him. |
Other members of
the Editorial Board include:
 | Professor
Sally
Borbasi
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith
University (Logan campus), AUSTRALIA Professor
Borbasi is a registered nurse and has extensive teaching and research
experience in the tertiary sector. She has an acute-care background and
her research interests cover a wide range of issues around health care
delivery including the experience of people with lymphoedema;
end-of-life decision making in patients with heart failure; care of
patients with dementia in acute settings and quality of life for people
with a disability. Sally has a national
research profile, having worked in the tertiary sector as an academic
in NSW at the University of Sydney and more recently in South
Australia, at the University of Adelaide's newly established
Department of Clinical Nursing as well as at Flinders University.
Sally has a particular interest in qualitative research
design, particularly within a phenomenological paradigm. |
 | Bruce C. Bradfield
Clinical Psychologist, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Having
completed his MA in 2003 which explored the impact of psychiatric
labelling on an individual’s intersubjective experience,
Bruce
worked for two years in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation in the
United Kingdom (in Oxford) before returning to Rhodes University to
commence clinical training. Currently, Bruce is working in private
practice in Cape Town, and reading for a PhD in Psychology at the
University of Cape Town. His doctorate is a relational psychoanalytic
exploration of the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Bruce
Bradfield’s research interests include phenomenological
psychological praxis, trauma research and narrative approaches to
mental illness. His theoretical orientation is towards relational
psychoanalytic
and phenomenological interpretations, with a developing interest in
narrative psychological approaches.
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 | Professor
Roger Brooke
Department of Psychology, Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh, USA
In
addition to his academic position, Professor Brooke is a Board
Certified (ABPP) Clinical sychologist in private practice. In 2005 he
was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Academy of
Clinical Psychology for a three year term (renewable) and in 2006 he
was elected to the honorary position of Affiliate Member of the
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
Roger
completed his
Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand
and his doctorate at Rhodes University, South Africa, where he worked
from 1982–1993. From 1994–2007 he was Director of
Clinical
Training at DU. Having stepped down as DCT, Professor Brooke now has
more time to write, already being the author of Jung and phenomenology
(London, Routledge, 1991, to be republished by Trivium Pubs) as well as
a contributing editor of Pathways
into the Jungian world (Routledge, 1999). Additionally, he
has written a number of papers on phenomenology and psychotherapeutic
issues.
Roger’s
current interests include interpretations of analytical psychology,
soldiers with trauma, geropsychology, therapeutic process, and
therapeutic outcomes research (of which he is highly critical).
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Professor Karin Dahlberg
School of Health Sciences, Centre for Lifeworld Research (LIFE),
Växjö University,
SWEDEN
Professor
Dahlberg has been in the “caring sciences” since
2000,
having previously obtained degrees in nursing and education (or
pedagogy as it is known in Europe). Karin's doctoral degree was in
pedagogy (educational research) and she is currently in charge of the
PhD Health Science education programme which is an interdisciplinary
field of study having its central focus on the patient perspective of
suffering, illness, and well-being related to the care and treatment
received. Karin's own research is mainly in continental
epistemology which provides her with a suitable methodological approach
to support the analysis of the health science field. |
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Dr André de Koning
Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Psychoanalyst , AUSTRALIA
Born
in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) in 1951, Dr de Koning completed his
doctoral examination in Clinical Psychology at the University of Leiden
(1975), where he was a student of Professor J H van den Berg. Later, he
was a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in phenomenological psychology at
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA (1974-1975) and a Thyssen Fellow
at Heidelberg University, Germany (Department of Psychiatry;
1977-1978). André also worked in the United Kingdom for
several
years (1975-1977) in the field of Psychiatry. He
completed his training as a Jungian psychoanalyst in Brussels in 1983
and became a training analyst and member of the Training Committee of
the Belgian Society for Analytical Psychology in January 1991.
Since
moving from The Netherlands for Perth (Australia) in 1994, Dr de Koning
has been involved in the further development of training with the
Australian and New Zealand Society for Jungian Analysts and its C G
Jung Institute (ANZSJA-CGJI). He was Convener of Training from
1994-2003. André was a Member of the
Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical
Psychology (IAAP) from 1998-2004, and he is currently President of
ANZSJA. Additionally, Dr de Koning assisted in setting up the
Singapore C G Jung Institute and has since taught courses there.
André
was Chief Editor of the book “Phenomenology and
Psychiatry”
(Academic Press, London, New York, 1982); Co-Editor of
“Qualitative Research in Psychology” (Duquesne
University
Press, Pittsburgh, 1986) and has a strong interest in Sufism as
presented to the West by the thinker Idries Shah. His interest in
“Metabletics” as developed by J H van den Berg has
remained
ever since the seventies. |
 | Dr
Stuart Devenish
Australian
College of Ministries, AUSTRALIA
Dr
Devenish is Senior Teaching Fellow with the Australian College of
Ministries based in Sydney, Australia, where he teaches in the areas of
Theology and Spirituality, and serves as Director for Teaching and
Learning for the College. Stuart is an Academic Board member of the
Sydney College of Divinity and a Director for the Australasian Centre
for Studies in Spirituality. In 2008 he was elected onto the Executive
of the Psychology and Spirituality Society (sponsored by the Templeton
Foundation and Metanexus Institute) of the University of Western Sydney.
His
areas of particular interest and expertise lie in phenomenology as a
methodology for the study of religious conversion, spiritual
experience, numinous encounter, and identifying religious epistemology.
He has completed a book manuscript on the topic of the interior life of
the Christian saint and the perceptual substance of the mystical
faith-vision which results from the excess of meaning found there.
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 | Professor Stephen Edwards
Emeritus
Professor and Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Zululand,
KwaDlangezwa, KwaZulu Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
Steve Edwards served as
HoD in the Psychology Department of the University
of Zululand
for
over 25 years. He has doctoral degrees in Psychology (UCT, 1974) and
Education
(UNISA, 1992), and is registered as a Clinical and Educational
Psychologist
with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and a Chartered
Clinical,
Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the British Psychological Society.
His research,
teaching and professional activities, usually phenomenological in
approach, are mainly concerned with health
promotion.
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 | Professor
Lester Embree
William F.
Dietrich Eminent Scholar at Florida
Atlantic
University, USA
Professor Embree
received his doctorate in philosophy from the New
School for
Social Research (New York) in
1972 under
Aron Gurwitsch. He also studied with Dorion Cairns, and is currently
leading
the teams editing the multivolume collected works of these leaders of
American
phenomenology.
Dr Embree has
over 200 publications on modern philosophy and the theory of science as
well as
in constitutive phenomenology. His books are Reflective
Analysis (2006
in English; also in Castilian, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, and
Russian
with translations into Czech, French, German, Korean, and
Portuguese in
various stages), Fenomenologia Continuada (2007), Environment,
Technology, and Justification (forthcoming in Castilian,
Chinese, and
English), and he is currently composing a text entitled Alfred
Schutz's
Theory of the Cultural Sciences.
Lester
has also edited, translated, and co-edited several dozen volumes.
Before becoming
William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar at Florida
Atlantic University
in 1990, Professor Embree had taught at Northern Illinois and Duquesne
Universities,
and was President of the Centre
for Advanced Research in Phenomenology for 20 years. In
addition, he
precipitated the founding of the Organization
of Phenomenological Organizations and the
“Newsletter of Phenomenology”. Under the auspices of Zetabooks,
Lester is co-editor of the series "Post-Scriptum-OPO" and is currently
developing the multilingual series "Phenomenology Workshop Texts".
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 | Dr Linda Finlay
Freelance Academic Consultant, UNITED
KINGDOM
Dr Finlay teaches and writes with the Open
University (Milton Keynes, UK) and also supervises post-graduate
dissertations at the University of East London (UK). She is a qualified
occupational therapist and an academic psychologist whose areas of
teaching include social psychology and qualitative research
methodology. Dr Finlay is best known for her textbooks on
occupational therapy in mental health and her work on reflexivity in
qualitative research. Linda's research
interests include the application of existential phenomenological and
hermeneutic approaches. She is currently researching the
lived-experience of disability and the role of empathy and reflexivity
in phenomenological psychology. |
 | Dr Assie Gildenhuys
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria,
SOUTH
AFRICA Dr
Gildenhuys has teaching and research interests in the field of group
analysis and group psychology, and he is actively involved in community
projects in this field. He also consults in the organizational and
institutional fields as well as being involved in the development of a
distance-learning international project based on his experience in
developing a web-assisted PhD course in psychotherapy offered in his
Department. Charting the
influence of social development on the emerging structures and
strategies in small and larger groupings in institutions forms the main
thrust of his present interest. |
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Professor Amedeo Giorgi
Research Professor, Saybrook
Graduate School, San Francisco,
USA
Amedeo P. Giorgi received his PhD
in experimental psychology from Fordham
University in 1958. After
working as a human factors consultant to government
and industry for several years, Amedeo moved into an academic career,
beginning at Manhattan College, followed by Duquesne
University, and later the University of Quebec
at Montreal. Currently,
he is a Professor at Saybrook Graduate School
in San Francisco
with which he has been associated since 1986.
Professor
Giorgi, being critical of mainstream psychology, began to seek
alternative approaches to the study of psychological material. He studied philosophical phenomenology, especially the
work of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and adopted that approach as
a framework for developing an alternative approach to understanding psychological
problems. Amedeo's speciality is in the area of psychological research practices,
especially qualitative approaches. He is the developer of a
phenomenological method based on the thought of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
Professor Giorgi has directed over 100
dissertations that have used the method on a wide variety of psychological
problems, and he has published over 100 articles on the phenomenological
approach to psychology. Amedeo has lectured on phenomenological psychology in
Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia
and South Africa.
He is the founder and original editor (for over 25 years) of the Journal of
Phenomenological Psychology and is author of the classic text Psychology as a
Human Science: A Phenomenologically based Approach (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). Additionally, he has published, inter alia, Phenomenology and Psychological Research (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1985 - Editor) and Qualitative Research in Psychology (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1986 - Editor, with P. D. Ashworth & A. J. J. de Koning).
Professor Giorgi is an advisor to
the journal and its editorial board.
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 | Dr
Philip Greenway
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of
Education, Monash
University,
Clayton, VIC, AUSTRALIA
As a psychologist, he teaches in the
broad area of psychology and
counseling, and is a member of the British Society for
Phenomenology. Over the years his research interests have
spanned
the fields of personality assessment, counseling, spiritual and
transpersonal experience. His
current areas of research interest include spirituality, religious
experience, counseling, psychological assessment, and phenomenological
psychology.
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 | Professor
Steen Halling
Professor, Psychology Programme, Seattle
University,
Seattle, Washington, USA
Professor Steen Halling is a licensed psychologist and
professor at Seattle University, Seattle, USA, where he
teaches in
the MA programme in existential-phenomenological psychology as well as
in the undergraduate programme. He is editor of the
International Human Science Research Conference Newsletter,
and co-editor, with Ronald S. Valle, of Existential-Phenomenological
Perspectives in Psychology
(Plenum, New York, 1989). More recently, he has authored Intimacy, Transcendence and
Psychologyse: Closeness and Openness in Everyday Life
(Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008). Steen grew up in Denmark, but
received his
high school and undergraduate education in Canada, before moving to the
United States where he completed his doctorate at Duquesne University.
Before moving to Seattle, he taught at Seton Hill University in
Pennsylvania. His research
and publications have tended to focus on topics such as the psychology
of forgiveness and the phenomenology of psychopathology, as well as the
psychology of hopelessness, interpersonal relationships, and
qualitative research methods. |
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Manton Hirst
Anthropology Curator, Amathole Museum,
King William’s Town, SOUTH AFRICA
Manton
Hirst has had a long-standing interest in Southern Nguni history,
ethnography, religious representations and traditional healing. Dr
Hirst’s PhD research (1974-1977) dealt with the Southern
Nguni
healer’s art, and was conducted on Xhosa and Mfengu diviners
and
herbalists resident in the townships of Grahamstown. During this time,
he served a two-year apprenticeship under a leading Mfengu diviner (igqirha lokuvumisa)
and is recognized by the local community as a diviner (sangoma).
Over
the years, Manton has assisted patients, both white and black, referred
to him from the local Psychiatric Hospital, and he has helped numerous
Xhosa clients with a broad spectrum of problems ranging from enuresis
to bewitchment.
Dr Hirst is an international fellow
of the Association for Ethno-Medicine and Trans-Cultural Psychiatry (AGEM) in
Heidelberg, Germany, and he has served as a reviewer for two top US
journals, Current
Anthropology and Ethno
Biology.
Dr Hirst has assisted a number of postgraduate scholars with their
theses, publications and research in the fields of history, psychology
and anthropology, and he has participated in workshops, conferences and
discussions dealing with traditional and alternative therapies.
Manton
has had a long-term deep interest in the grey areas between academic
disciplines, particularly between psychology and anthropology, and a
longstanding interest in phenomenological methodology and research.
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 | Dr
Paul MacDonald
Head, Department of Philosophy, Murdoch
University,
Perth, WA, AUSTRALIA Dr
MacDonald teaches existentialism and specialises in continental
philosophy, being an acknowledged academic in the field of
Philosophy.
Paul has published three books, Descartes and Husserl: The
Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings (SUNY Series in Philosophy,
2000),
History of the Concept of Mind: Speculations about Soul, Mind and
Spirit from Homer to Hume - Volume 1 (Ashgate, 2003) and History of the Concept of
Mind: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition - Volume 2
(Ashgate, 2006), one edited anthology, The Existentialist Reader: An
Anthology of Key Texts (Routledge, 2001), and about a
dozen journal articles, many of them devoted to issues in Husserlian
phenomenology His areas of
research interest include philosophy, continental philosophy and
applied ontology.
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 | Dr
Tom Martin
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes
University,
Grahamstown, SOUTH AFRICA Dr
Martin teaches twentieth-century European philosophy, and philosophy
and social issues. His areas of research include existential
phenomenology, philosophy and literature, race and racism, and gender.
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 | Dr Chris Milton
Jungian Analyst and Clinical Psychologist in private
practice, NEW ZEALAND
Dr Chris Milton is a Jungian Analyst and Clinical
Psychologist in
private practice in Auckland, New Zealand. Currently devoting his time
to adult analysis and supervision of clinicians, he has previously
worked psychotherapeutically with adults as well as with children,
adolescents and their families in both the private and public sectors.
Dr Milton is a training analyst of Australian and New Zealand Society
of Jungian Analysts (ANZSJA) of which he is also Secretary. He is a
member of the New Zealand Psychotherapists Board. Apart from his
clinical and analytical work, he has taught, examined and supervised in
psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and analytical
psychology in both institute and university settings. He has published
in the area of infant mental health and psychoanalytic processes.
Dr
Milton is interested in the phenomenology of psychoanalytic processes,
particularly the ambience and aesthetics of the analytic encounter and
shifts in analytic focus. He also maintains an interest in spirituality
and transpersonal psychology.
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 | Dr Kalpana Ram
Senior Lecturer
and Head: Department of Anthropology, Macquarie
University, AUSTRALIA
Dr Ram was
previously a Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, and a
Research
Fellow at the Gender Relations Centre (Australian National University).
Kalpana has
published several papers on dance, and is currently working on a book
concerned
with female embodiment in rural Tamil Nadu which aims to address the
ways in
which reproductive disorders are experienced by women in ways that are
very
different from the rationalist intellectual discourses in India.
Dr Ram’s main
publications include Mukkuvar Women:
Gender, Hegemony and Capitalist Transformation in a South Indian
Fishing Village
(Allen & Unwin, 1991; republished by Kali
for Women as a special Indian edition); Maternities
and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in
Asia and the Pacific (co-edited with Margaret Jolly,
Cambridge University
Press, 1998); Borders of Being:
Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
(co-edited
with Margaret Jolly, Routledge, 2001).
Kalpana uses
phenomenology and its critique of rationalism in the context of
contemporary
postcolonial experiences in two different areas: Indian immigrant
female
experiences, particularly in the context of learning dance; and in the
context
of rural poor women in south India. Dr Ram has
particular interests in the areas of (a) class, gender and development
in India;
(b) women's experiences of puberty and maternity; and (c) family
planning and
childbirth.
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 | Professor Brent Dean Robbins
Assistant
Professor of Psychology, Daemen
College, Amherst, New
York, USA. Prior to his present
appointment at Daemen College, Dr Robbins served as a Visiting
Assistant
Professor at Allegheny College (Meadville, Pennsylvania) and previously
has
been a part-time instructor for a variety of institutions, including
Walden
University (clinical psychology doctoral program), Massey University
(graduate
program in discursive therapies), and the Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Brent
has also taught undergraduate courses for prisoners at the Wyoming
Correctional
Facility in Attica,
New York,
through the Consortium of the
Niagara Frontier. He is
Editor-in-Chief and founder of Janus Head: Journal of
Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological
Psychology, and
the Arts,
and is a Board member
for a number of journals, including
PsyCRITIQUES, Terrorism Research,
International Journal of Transpersonal
Studies, and the International
Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy. Dr
Robbins is a co-editor
of The Legacy of R D Laing (with
Gavin Miller, Daniel Burston, and Victor Barbetti, Trivium Press). Brent holds a
doctorate in clinical psychology from Duquesne University,
and is a recipient of the Harmi Carari Early Career Award for Inquiry,
which
was granted by the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32 of
the
American Psychological Association). His areas of
research include the phenomenology of emotion, humor,
self-consciousness,
religion/spirituality, death anxiety, embodiment, and the
medicalization of the
body. His clinical research has been especially focused on an
existential-phenomenological approach to treatment, which is informed
by
Maurice Merleau-Ponty's flesh ontology. Additional areas of clinical
and
research interest include panic disorder other anxiety disorders. Brent
is a
strong proponent of epistemological diversity, and a significant
portion of his
scholarship includes work in the philosophy of science, especially
phenomenological and Goethean approaches to science.
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| Dr
Dyann Ross
School of Regional Community Services, Edith
Cowan University (Bunbury), WA, AUSTRALIA Dr
Dyann Ross is a social work academic whose interests derive from 30
years of social work practice in mental and community health settings
as well as staff training and development. Being involved in
professional education and supervision, Dyann teaches in fields related
to research, community capacity building, anti-oppressive practise and
counselling. Dyann completed her PhD on the
ethic of love in social work education. This enabled some exciting
synergies when, for example, she had the opportunity to head up a
University/Industry research collaborative project in her geographic
region. Sustainability issues, corporate
responsibility, ethics and the role of universities in public affairs
are key areas of scholarship for Dyann. Research methodology and
research ethics are an area of ongoing interest. |
 | Professor Robert
Schweitzer
Associate Professor and Head of
Counseling Studies, School
of Psychology and Counseling, Queensland University of
Technology,
Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA Dr
Schweitzer is the former Editor-in-Chief of the IPJP. His doctoral
studies, at Rhodes University, entailed a thesis which was a
phenomenological study of dream interpretation among urban and rural
Inguni people. Dr Schweitzer has published widely on
psycho-social aspects of the family, of adolescence, and of mental
health. He is regularly consulted in the area of professional
development and the supervision of psychologists.
His areas of research interest include process
and outcome studies in Psychotherapy and Indigenous healing. |
 | Dr
Trish Sherwood
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Regional Professional Studies, Edith Cowan University,
Bunbury, WA, AUSTRALIA
Trish is a researcher
at Edith
Cowan University
specializing
in phenomenologically-based research, particularly in the fields of
counseling,
artistic therapies and complementary health therapies. She is also
Director of
Sophia College where she designs and teaches courses in holistic
counseling,
Buddhist psychotherapy and artistic therapies.
Dr Sherwood has published widely in the
fields of community development, as well as in the area
of health and
education, using broadly-based qualitative research methodologies.
Trish has a
particular interest in the client's experience of counseling and the
Westerner's experience of Buddhism.
Her areas of
research interest include a wide range of topics in psychology, social
science,
indigenous studies, and counseling and psychotherapy. Based on an energetic
model of being human, Holistic Counselling: A new vision for
mental health is her
most recent book. |
 | Professor Les
Todres
Professor, Centre for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University,
Bournemouth, UNITED KINGDOM Les
Todres PhD is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Qualitative
Research and Psychotherapy at Bournemouth University, UK. His previous
occupational roles have included being head of a student counselling
service and director of a clinical psychology training
programme. His career spans both academic and clinical
contexts.
Les is author of the book Embodied
Enquiry: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and
spirituality
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and numerous journal articles and book
chapters. His current research interests include older person care,
mental health and quality of life.
Professor
Todres
is responsible for co-ordinating the submission of articles dealing
with the one of the journal's specialist themes, Method in
Phenomenology. Contributions in this field should - in the
first instance - be sent to him.
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Professor Ron Valle
Director: Awakening: A Center
for
Exploring Living
and Dying, Brentwood,
California, USA
Professor
Valle is currently a director of Awakening: A Center for Exploring
Living and
Dying and the Awakening Retreat
Center where he has served on a
voluntary basis since 1992. He has
worked with those dying and grieving since 1982. A long-time
practitioner and
teacher of meditation, Ron developed an Integrated Therapy Program for
transforming stress and pain while serving as co-director of an
outpatient
university hospital pain clinic.
Professor,
counsellor, supervisor and author, Ron has
published six books and over 50 papers, having also facilitated more
than 80
workshops and symposia during his lengthy academic and professional
career
spanning almost 35 years. As a licensed psychologist, he specializes in
clients
with chronic pain and stress-related disorders, and has worked
extensively with
individuals and their families facing a life-threatening diagnosis.
Dr
Valle has, over the course of his professional career,
been closely associated as founder and/or director of several
prestigious
national centers including the Center for the Development of
Consciousness
and Personal Growth and the
Holistic Center of Pittsburgh, both
based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has served as an adjunct
faculty member at
various academies of higher learning including the Graduate School of
Consciousness Studies at JFK University, the Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology, Saybrook Institute, the California Institute of Integral
Studies,
San Jose State University, Sacramento State University, and Argosy
University.
He was also a member of the editorial board of ReVision; A Journal of
Knowledge and Consciousness for a five year
period.
Dr
Valle has
authored and edited several books, amongst them being Existential-phenomenological
Alternatives for Psychology (with Mark
King, 1978, Oxford University Press); The
Metaphors of Consciousness (with Rolf von Eckartsberg,
1981, 1989, Plenum
Press); Existential-phenomenological
Perspectives in Psychology
(1989, with Steen Halling, Plenum
Press); Phenomenological
Inquiry:
Existential and Transpersonal Dimensions (1998, Plenum
Press); and, most
recently, Opening to
Dying and
Grieving: A Sacred Journey (with
Mary Mohs, 2006, Yes International Publishers).
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 | Professor
Max van
Manen
Professor of Education, The University of Alberta,
Edmonton, CANADA Max
van Manen regularly offers workshops on phenomenological human science
research methods and pedagogy, as well as on related topics dealing
with the phenomenology of professional practice in education, the
health sciences, psychology, counseling, and human ecology. For the
last 30 years, Max has written profusely on phenomenological
methodology, and has translated and published phenomenological studies
by scholars such as Langeveld, Bollnow, Buytendijk and Mollenhauer from
Dutch and German languages. He has conducted various studies on themes
such as the tact of teaching, childhood secrets and identity, the
pedagogy of recognition, and the phenomenology of writing. Currently,
Max van Manen teaches courses in qualitative research methods and
pedagogy at the University of Alberta; and he is adjunct professor at
the University of Victoria. Max maintains the website
http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/
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 | Professor
Rex van Vuuren
Academic Dean, St
Augustine College, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA In
1999 Professor Rex van Vuuren left the University of Pretoria after
spending 26 years in the Department of Psychology to take up the
position of Academic Dean at St Augustine College, a new private higher
education institution in South Africa. St Augustine College currently
offers only post graduate programmes.
Over his
extended academic career Professor van Vuuren has published widely and
has presented papers at both national and especially international
conferences as well as having organized the 14th International Human
Science Research Conference which was held in Midrand in 1995.
His professional and academic interests are to be found in the areas of
personality psychology, psychotherapy and qualitative research methods
as well as in multidisciplinary dialogues between a wide range of
disciplines. Among these disciplinary dialogues are
architecture
and psychology, education and psychology, philosophy and psychology
and, finally, theology and psychology. Professor van Vuuren’s
interests are grounded in existential-phenomenological and hermeneutic
approaches.
Rex is registered with the Professional Board in South Africa as both a
Clinical Psychologist and a Research Psychologist. Professor
Rex van Vuuren is responsible for co-ordinating the
submission of articles dealing with the journal's specialist theme, Postgraduate Research
in Phenomenology. Contributions should - in the first
instance - be sent to him. | |
 | Dr
Peter Willis
Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of South
Australia, Adelaide, SA, AUSTRALIA Dr
Willis has made significant contributions to scholarship in the fields
of adult education and training, and particularly the use of
phenomenological research methodology in Adult Educational
research. He has authored and co-authored several books in
this
area.
His areas of research interest include Adult
education, spirituality, aesthetic knowledge, research methodology,
sociology of knowledge and philosophy.
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WebMaster IPJP,
Edith Cowan University,
Robertson
Drive, Bunbury, WA, AUSTRALIA Mrs
Collins has worked in post secondary education since 1999. She has
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