Published inunpsychology voices·PinnedKeeping it real: a warm data ‘UNtopia’Unpsychology Magazine’s issue number 8 — An Anthology of Warm Data — is out now and is available FREE to download from HERE. — Warm Data is information that is alive within the transcontextual relating of a living system. (Nora Bateson) When I approached Nora Bateson to suggest that we devote the 8th edition to Unpsychology Magazine to Warm Data — the growing field of complexity inquiry, theory and practice that she is building…Warm Data8 min readWarm Data8 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·1 day agoUnpsychology Imaginings: online launch party!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…Unpsychology1 min readUnpsychology1 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Updated Nov 20Unpsychology 9.2: Imaginings is OUT now!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 which has just been…Unpsychology4 min readUnpsychology4 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Oct 31FREE magazine downloads from unpsychologyPick 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…Unpsychology4 min readUnpsychology4 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Sep 25Trails of imaginingAn 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…Imagination7 min readImagination7 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Aug 24Perfect imperfection: on the making of mistakesBy 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. Like a crack in the china, a scratch in…Imperfection3 min readImperfection3 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Jul 30Unpsychology 9.1: Imaginings is OUT now!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. Go to the link below and get the version of your choice (Page or Spreads view) to suit your tablet…Unpsychology5 min readUnpsychology5 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·May 14I am natureby 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…Somatic10 min readSomatic10 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·May 7unpsychologyA 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. In a world where opinions are loud and exponentially escalating, Unpsychology Voices is committed to finding and publishing thoughtful and imaginative…Unpsychology5 min readUnpsychology5 min read
Published inunpsychology voices·Mar 24On soul, therapy and transcontextualityReflections 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…Psychology13 min readPsychology13 min read
