The Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics promotes conversation between the psychological sciences and humanities to advance our understanding of the enduring ethical questions at the heart of human existence.

Upcoming Offerings

ATTENSITY!: Human Attention, Solidarity, and Radical World-remaking
ATTENSITY!: Human Attention, Solidarity, and Radical World-remaking
Thursday, November 6th
5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST
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ATTENSITY!: Human Attention, Solidarity, and Radical World-remaking

ATTENSITY!: Human Attention, Solidarity, and Radical World-remaking

Thursday, November 6th

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EST

In this presentation, D. Graham Burnett 鈥 one of the leaders in a rising movement focused on ATTENTION ACTIVISM and practices of collective attentional emancipation 鈥 will introduce some of the work of those currently advancing this vision, which engages the humanities and the sciences, and reaches toward transformative politics. In an era that has seen new forms of exploitative financialization of our cognitive and sensory capacities (in the form of the so-called 鈥渁ttention economy鈥), new thinking about the social and existential dimensions of human attention is urgently needed. Teachers and therapists need to be in the vanguard as we confront, together, the dehumanizing dimensions of the business model that underlies so much of what is so promising in the technological transformations of our time.

Life After Incarceration
Life After Incarceration
Tuesday, November 4th
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST
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Life After Incarceration

Life After Incarceration

Tuesday, November 4th

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST

Life After Incarceration is a panel discussion highlighting issues related to re-entry for individuals leaving incarceration. Co-sponsored by the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics鈥 Justice and the Humanities Initiative and the Forum on Racial Justice in America.

Creative Non-fiction for Clinicians
Creative Non-fiction for Clinicians
January 24-25, 2026
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. & Sunday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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Creative Non-fiction for Clinicians

Creative Non-fiction for Clinicians

January 24-25, 2026

Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. & Sunday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

How might the process of听creative听non-fiction unlock facets of clinical experience that may have initially eluded us? Even as we hone skills of clinical sensitivity over years of practice 鈥 be it via forms of 鈥榚ven hovering attention鈥, the comments of supervisors, or forms of countertransference 鈥 a professional clinical stance invariably requires that we bracket multiple sources of information and engagement.

This course begins with a piece of clinical non-fiction drawn from the presenter鈥檚 time as a trainee in a prison context. In the sessions following, participants will be introduced to a rudimentary series of techniques of creative non-fiction and will then take up a series of writing exercises in which they return to one or more salient clinical experiences.

Continuing Education (CE) credits are pending for this event. Updated information will be provided once the registration page is available.

Honoring Philip Cushman

Philip Cushman, a moral and political luminary in the field of psychology, died on August 22, 2022, the victim of a hit-and-run accident.

A beloved teacher, scholar, and clinician, Phil is remembered for his听rich analysis of how the self has been conceptualized in the field of psychology, along with his historical and critical exploration of the moral and political horizons of psychotherapy.

With the establishment of this endowed Fund, created to honor Phil and foster his moral imagination for the field of psychology, we will continue this critically important work for generations to come.

Philip Cushman
The argument over the question of whether or not psychology is or is not a philosophical science is, for psychology, a struggle for its very existence.
~ Wilhelm Wundt

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