Robert D Romanyshyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Romanyshyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Romanyshyn |
| SIGNATURE | ROMANYSHYN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pacifica Graduate Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diagnostic Fictions
Beginning with a case in Part 1 of this article, I illustrate a key difference between the person who comes to therapy and the figure(s) who come for therapy. In Part 2, I describe some features of a literary approach that attend to this difference and animate diagnostic descriptions with images and stories found in literature. Using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and drawing on my rereading of her tale, I demonstrate in Part 3 how the character of …
A comment on a new book by professor Akihiro Yoshida
Conversations in the gap between mind and soul
In December 2013, the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture sponsored a conference to celebrate the life and work of James Hillman. My article is an open letter to a colleague and friend that continues conversations we had over the years on the issue of the language of psychology and the logos of soul (ψυχολογία). In my letter, I suggest to James that psychology has a monumental problem in its addiction to nouns and, alongside him, I explore…
Phenomenology as a poetic realism
For nearly a half century, I knew Jan Hendrick van den Berg, first when I was a graduate student at Duquesne University where he was a visiting professor on several occasions. Later, I came to know
The necessity for the humanities in psychology
The wounded researcher
I make the case that an approach to research that makes a place for the unconscious subjectivity of a researcher is the next logical step in a line of development, from psychology as natural science through it as a human and hermeneutic science, that has made a place for the subjectivity of the researcher in research. The process of research that arises from this approach begins with acknowledging that research is a vocation in which a work claim…
Complex Education
This essay applies the material developed in The Wounded Researcher to education. The core issue in that book is the necessity to make a place for the complex unconscious in research in order to lay a foundation for an ethics that is based in deep subjectivity. The therapy room has characteristically been the place where this kind of work has occurred, and in this regard therapy has been a form of education. The boundaries of the therapy room hav…
Writing Down the Soul
Review of Ginette Paris’s The Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. This book charts a journey from wound to work by an author who examines anew some of the worn-out ideas and theories in depth psychology, offering fresh insights that engage the reader on both a scholarly and a personal level
Seasons of Love and Grief
This article is an account of the author's moving experience of the sudden death of his wife. Through reveries of his experiences of the seasons of the soul in grief, the author invites the reader into the depths of his or her experiences of loss. From being a ghost in those early moments of loss in the season of grief, through the moments of shipwreck in the season of mourning, to the transformation of one's life in the season of melancholy, the…
Complex knowing
The case history arises out of that place of discourse where the history of a patient is transformed into a narrative with a story line. Complex knowing, and its derivative, complex reading, are needed to do justice to this narrative, woven as it is from event, symptom, memory, and dream
The graduate program at the University of Dallas
Empiricism and empirical psychology
Complex Education
This essay applies the material developed in The Wounded Researcher to education. The core issue in that book is the necessity to make a place for the complex unconscious in research in order to lay a foundation for an ethics that is based in deep subjectivity. The therapy room has characteristically been the place where this kind of work has occurred, and in this regard therapy has been a form of education. The boundaries of the therapy room hav…
Diagnostic Fictions
Beginning with a case in Part 1 of this article, I illustrate a key difference between the person who comes to therapy and the figure(s) who come for therapy. In Part 2, I describe some features of a literary approach that attend to this difference and animate diagnostic descriptions with images and stories found in literature. Using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and drawing on my rereading of her tale, I demonstrate in Part 3 how the character of …
Empiricism and empirical psychology
The graduate program at the University of Dallas
Complex knowing
The case history arises out of that place of discourse where the history of a patient is transformed into a narrative with a story line. Complex knowing, and its derivative, complex reading, are needed to do justice to this narrative, woven as it is from event, symptom, memory, and dream
Seasons of Love and Grief
This article is an account of the author's moving experience of the sudden death of his wife. Through reveries of his experiences of the seasons of the soul in grief, the author invites the reader into the depths of his or her experiences of loss. From being a ghost in those early moments of loss in the season of grief, through the moments of shipwreck in the season of mourning, to the transformation of one's life in the season of melancholy, the…
Writing Down the Soul
Review of Ginette Paris’s The Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology After Neuroscience. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. This book charts a journey from wound to work by an author who examines anew some of the worn-out ideas and theories in depth psychology, offering fresh insights that engage the reader on both a scholarly and a personal level
The wounded researcher
I make the case that an approach to research that makes a place for the unconscious subjectivity of a researcher is the next logical step in a line of development, from psychology as natural science through it as a human and hermeneutic science, that has made a place for the subjectivity of the researcher in research. The process of research that arises from this approach begins with acknowledging that research is a vocation in which a work claim…
Complex Education
This essay applies the material developed in The Wounded Researcher to education. The core issue in that book is the necessity to make a place for the complex unconscious in research in order to lay a foundation for an ethics that is based in deep subjectivity. The therapy room has characteristically been the place where this kind of work has occurred, and in this regard therapy has been a form of education. The boundaries of the therapy room hav…
The necessity for the humanities in psychology
Phenomenology as a poetic realism
For nearly a half century, I knew Jan Hendrick van den Berg, first when I was a graduate student at Duquesne University where he was a visiting professor on several occasions. Later, I came to know
Conversations in the gap between mind and soul
In December 2013, the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture sponsored a conference to celebrate the life and work of James Hillman. My article is an open letter to a colleague and friend that continues conversations we had over the years on the issue of the language of psychology and the logos of soul (ψυχολογία). In my letter, I suggest to James that psychology has a monumental problem in its addiction to nouns and, alongside him, I explore…
A comment on a new book by professor Akihiro Yoshida
Diagnostic Fictions
Beginning with a case in Part 1 of this article, I illustrate a key difference between the person who comes to therapy and the figure(s) who come for therapy. In Part 2, I describe some features of a literary approach that attend to this difference and animate diagnostic descriptions with images and stories found in literature. Using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and drawing on my rereading of her tale, I demonstrate in Part 3 how the character of …
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