Imperfect Cognitions

This post is by Grace Lockrobin, Co-director of Thoughtful. Resources for Philosophy for Children Over the past few years, the charity established in 1992 as SAPERE, has undergone a metamorphosis. Our members and stakeholders agreed that we needed a new name that captures our commitment to the kind of dialogue that takes ideas seriously and treats interlocutors sensitively. In short, thoughtful dialogue. It turns out that our new name was staring us in the face. We are pleased to share Thoughtful’s  new website , a refreshed digital space that we hope better articulates (and facilitates) our work in Philosophy for Children and Communities (P4C).  Thoughtful new website Thoughtful has spent more than three decades supporting philosophical enquiry in schools and communities across the United Kingdom. The new site offers a clearer and more welcoming way to explore that work, while expressing the same mission and vision. At the centre of Thoughtful’s approach is a simple but strik...

This week's post is by Enara Garcia,  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark.    Enara Garcia  In recent years, psychotherapy has become a central cultural reference point for understanding ourselves and regulating our distress. Yet the more therapy saturates public discourse, the more urgent it becomes to ask what kind of psychotherapy we actually need. I have been investigating therapeutic relationships from embodied perspectives for some years. What follows is a personal reflection on why psychotherapy needs a more critical, relational, and process‐sensitive orientation. A first step is rethinking what we mean by mental health . Rather than treating mental conditions as cognitive dysfunctions or biomedical pathologies, I understand mental health as our capacity to create not only meaningful worlds, but also worlds that are significant for us. This requires distinguishing meaning —the content o...