on Sunday 10 December at 19:00 GMT — Join Steve Thorp, Lesley Maclean, Patrick Carpenter and Julia Macintosh - along with contributors and readers of unpsychology magazine — for this online celebration of our double issue: Imaginings. This will be an informal gathering in which to connect and to share snippets and impressions, or indeed just to say hello. All are welcome. INVITATION Julia Macintosh is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Download the second Imaginings issue FREE — When we put out the submissions call for the 2023 edition of Unpsychology Magazine, we hadn’t envisaged the amount and quality of amazing ‘imaginings’ we would receive. So, we decided to put out two issues this year — number 9.1 (published in the summer), and 9.2 …

Pick up all back issues now! — This past summer, we published the first of our two Imaginings anthologies for 2023 — a rich mix of complexity, creativity and conversation. You can find out more about this wonderful curation — in both PDF and print versions HERE. The second Imaginings issue will be out very soon, but…

An improvisation on process, connection, life and colours changing — The latest Unpsychology Magazine is a strange thing — a curation of imaginings. How to further describe it? How to whet your appetite for the rich meal within its pages? How to avoid the usual ‘sell’ — the marketeers ‘pitch’? We live in and with markets, so no avoiding that…

By Julia Macintosh and Lesley Maclean — Unpsychology editors — “Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it.” Salvador Dali We’ve just rereleased Unpsychology Imaginings 9.1 because the first launch version missed out a spread. Yes, an entire spread! We didn’t mean to omit a spread, but it happened. …

The first volume of Unpsychology Magazine’s ninth edition — Imaginings — is OUT NOW. As for every previous edition of the magazine, it is available as a FREE PDF download. …

by Kasia Witek — Somatic re-imagining and the other-than-human The latest of our guest posts on Unpsychology Voices is by Kasia Witek, a Polish-born, UK-based dance artist. Her work spans installation, video, theatre and outdoor performance. Human kinship with the non-human environment is a central theme in much of her work. Her deep passion for music permeates all of…

A wood between the worlds — In recent weeks, on our Unpsychology Voices Substack we’ve published serialised essays by two of the wisest articulators of what we call ‘unpsychology’ — Nora Bateson and Chris Robertson. …

Reflections and queries — When things break down in our culture, individuals inevitably respond. With pathology. With violence. With conspiracy. With communication. With care and kindness. With empathy. With searches for sense and meaning. With pain. With ‘therapy’ and ‘healing’. Psychological therapies and other related therapeutic practices are supposed to help, but these are…