Mary Watkins

In this classic & often-referred-to work, Mary Watkins, an imaginal psychologist, recovers for us the immeasurable riches of fantasy life, waking dreams, active imagination & imaginal others, showing with lucid clarity & remarkable care the relevance of fantasy to the practice of psychotherapy, education & the drama of individual lives. At once historical, critical & clinical, WAKING DREAMS, takes one through both European & American approaches to the image, finally delivering the reader to a close look at his/her relation to the imaginal world. "WAKING DREAMS is one of the best introductions to the avenues by which one can experience the imaginal realm & thereby deepen & heal oneself."--American Journal of Art Therapy. "Readers interested in the question of which reality is real one will find a catalogue of answers in Mary Watkin's Waking Dreams..."--The Utne Reader.

Waking Dreams

Helene Shulman

A presentation of the theoretical foundation and participatory methodoloies of psychologies of liberation that are emerging on every continent. The book proposes a radical interdisciplinary reorientation of psychology to aid in the creation of participatory and dialogical spaces for critical understanding and creative restoration.

Toward Psychologies of Liberation

A landmark book that maps a radical model not only for the “helping” professions but for the work of solidarity This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action. Accompaniment—grounded in horizontality, interdependence, and potential mutuality—moves away from hierarchical and unidirectional helping-profession approaches that decontextualize suffering. Watkins envisions a powerful paradigm of mutual solidarity with profound implications for creating commons in the face of societal division and indifference to suffering.

Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons

Edward S. Casey

As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S. wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the wall—Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of excluding others through walled structures along with the withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more justice and more compassion.

Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border

Up Against the Wall

Susan Fisher

Susan M. Fisher

Discusses how young children make sense of the fact that they are adopted with 20 accounts of parents talking to their children about adoption.

Mary Watkins

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