Two Worlds or One? Politics Inside and Outside The Consulting Room

Cushman, Philip

doi:10.1080/24720038.2020.1767623

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“…Since that time, others have contributed to the subject, such as philosophers Taylor (1989) and Bernstein (1983) and psychologists such as Stern (1991Stern ( , 1997Stern ( , 2010, Slife and Williams (1995), F. C. Richardson et al (1999), Sugarman (1999), andFrie (2018). I have also written about the movement (Cushman, 1995(Cushman, , 2019, and in particular suggested that a hermeneutic cultural history fits well with the social critiques of our time (Cushman, 2020). Most recently, my former students (Cushman, 2022) applied hermeneutic ideas to psychological research and clinical practice.…”

Section: The Need For a Hermeneutic Approachmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…C. Richardson et al (1999), Martin and Sugarman (1999), and Frie (2018). I have also written about the movement (Cushman, 1995, 2019), and in particular suggested that a hermeneutic cultural history fits well with the social critiques of our time (Cushman, 2020). Most recently, my former students (Cushman, 2022) applied hermeneutic ideas to psychological research and clinical practice.…”

Section: The Need For a Hermeneutic Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A current form of relational psychoanalysis has developed clinical theory that makes dissociative processes and their attendant therapeutic impasses the fulcrum upon which many successful treatments turn (e.g., Stern, 1997Stern, , 2010. The kind of dissociation Cushman and Gilford (1999) described and about which I have since written (Cushman, 2019(Cushman, , 2020 is centered more on the cultural than the individual, but the processes are similar. The point is that the self is now less singular, concrete, and taken-for-granted than in the post-World War II era.…”

Section: The Effects Of Online Livingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Resentment, online living, and sacred soldiers in Trumpist America: Toward understanding the emergence of a populist cult.

Cushman

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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This is an exploration of historical, political, and psychological processes that enable Donald Trump to attain and remain a powerful political force in the United States and maintain the allegiance of so many adherents, even while his unethical and illegal acts are in public view. Using a hermeneutic, cultural history approach, I employ insights drawn from historical sources, social psychology, pop culture, and studies about religious cults. The effort is to understand not only the psychological experience of Trump's followers but also something about the psychological life of all Americans, and by doing so sketch out in broad terms the current 21st-century self and the cultural terrain that brought this new self to light. Public Significance StatementDomestically and internationally, far-right authoritarianism is on the rise. A populist movement led by Donald Trump has gained a large following that threatens democratic institutions. This interdisciplinary study explores how and why followers join Trump's movement and suggests a solution. Resentment, historical antecedents, identity issues, and the use of electronic media contributed to a new way of being that enables the rise of Trump's populism.

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Section: The Need For a Hermeneutic Approachmentioning

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Resentment, online living, and sacred soldiers in Trumpist America: Toward understanding the emergence of a populist cult.

Cushman

2024

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“…on uncertainty, incompleteness, and reflexivity (Cushman, 2019(Cushman, , 2020(Cushman, , 2023, as well as admission of the "politics of uncertainty" (Cushman, 2023, p. 82). Reflexive self-awareness is evidenced throughout his writings as is shown in the astute observation that "'diffuse dissociation' is our common way of being" (p. 88).…”

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Morawski

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Psychological scientists frequently acknowledge the dynamic complexities of psychological experiences, yet few attend to them, favoring instead the reductionism of laboratory experiments. Phil Cushman is one of the exceptions to this rhetorical routine, dedicating his life work to exploring that dynamic complexity. Using hermeneutic methods that are enhanced by historical evidence and psychoanalytic acumen, Phil generated novel understandings of the self in the 20th and 21st century. These understandings, the multifaceted methods and observer stance used to uncover them, can serve as open invitations for scholars in the theory, philosophy, and history of psychology.

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“…Yet speaking openly about racism has proven immensely difficult. The psychologist, Philip Cushman (2020, p. 222), recently spoke to the challenges involved in a process that “requires listening to, respecting, and working to open ourselves to the perspective of the other.” As Cushman points out, these “dialogic processes are exceedingly difficult to live out when ideological and political structures such as racism or sexism or homophobia or classism are involved.” An example of just how hard it can be was revealed at a conference in 2017 in Cambridge, MA, in which I participated.…”

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Learning to embrace discomfort: Accepting our historical responsibility and implication in systemic racism.

Frie¹

2023

The Humanistic Psychologist

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The article considers what it means to be implicated in histories of racial violence and systems of injustice that we may not have had a hand in creating, but nevertheless have a responsibility to address. Using a series of examples from psychological settings in present-day Germany and the United States, the author analyzes defensive reactions that result when members of the majority are asked to confront the effects of genocide or the experiential realities of racism. Parallels are drawn between reactions among psychologists in Germany, when confronted with their historical responsibility for the Holocaust, especially as it relates to their own families, and psychologists in the United States, when asked to consider their implication in systemic racism and other forms of oppression. The author draws on first-hand experience, and on his work as a psychologist and historian who researches and writes about the moral obligations of memory in the face of past and present injustice. Public Significance StatementThis article suggests that in order to engage constructively with histories of genocide, or with their implication in systemic racism, psychologists who are members of past and present perpetrator groups need to learn how to embrace their discomfort, rather than react defensively against it.

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Two Worlds or One? Politics Inside and Outside The Consulting Room

Cited by 10 publications

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Resentment, online living, and sacred soldiers in Trumpist America: Toward understanding the emergence of a populist cult.

Resentment, online living, and sacred soldiers in Trumpist America: Toward understanding the emergence of a populist cult.

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Learning to embrace discomfort: Accepting our historical responsibility and implication in systemic racism.

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