Ilene Serlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3490652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilene Serlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilene |
| FAMILY NAME | Serlin |
| SIGNATURE | SERLIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saybrook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1768-873X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Abraham Maslow as a Jewish Prophet
Reading Maslow is alive, like experiencing a dialogue with a text. This article explores this writer’s response to Maslow’s narrative style, as well as to his powerful content. Using a personal narrative style that situates the reader in a Jewish context during the most powerful time of the year, the writer responds to Maslow as a Jewish prophet who prophecizes some of the dead-ends of the mechanistic science that he critiques in “Toward a Humani…
Donna Rockwell and Love
This tribute to Donna Rockwell focuses on three aspects of her essential quality of love: her warm presence, her championing of meditative and embodied wisdom paths, and her selfless mentorship of other women students and colleagues
I am my own egg
Responding to natural and manmade disaster with dance movement therapy
Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a relatively new form of mind/body psychotherapy that builds on the use of non-verbal communication and symbolic movement. Although it has been used primarily in psychiatric and medical settings, its use with challenges of cultural dislocation and trauma is relatively new. Dance movement therapy can be effective in treating individual, family and community trauma resulting from disasters. Working with the body and …
Life, death and transformation
This article demonstrates the use of a new method of group work in dance movement therapy. The approach is existential/depth, and the major themes of confrontation with mortality, freedom and fate, death and rebirth are explored in movement. The benefits of this approach are seen in how these themes illuminate group process, through a small group improvisation and performance, and the way in which it helped participants understand and cope with a…
The History and Future of Humanistic Psychology
Since much of humanistic psychology’s agenda has been taken up by mainstream psychology and culture, the question of whether humanistic psychology is relevant today is critical. This article draws on Maslow’s description of “sickness of the soul” to argue that a psychology that stresses connection and embodied experience, meaning and ethics, creativity and dreams, resilience and self-actualization is needed now more than ever
Rollo May on Existential Psychotherapy
This article is a lightly edited transcription of an interview conducted by Kirk Schneider, John Galvin, and Ilene Serlin with Rollo May at his retreat home in Holderness, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1987. Drawing from the influence of his forefathers, Freud, Jung, Fromm, Adler, Sullivan, and Rank as well as classical mythology, philosophy, and literature, May gives a passionate explanation of existential psychotherapy and why it is so urgent…
A Tribute to Rollo May and the Arts
This article will focus on Rollo May’s contribution to psychology through his celebration of the arts as an expression of the human psyche. His vision of psychology was one grounded in the humanities, the great classics, and Greek mythology, and his vision of psychotherapy training emphasized a broad cultural education. Rollo May was opposed to quick fixes and technical training, and his vision of psychotherapy is sorely needed in today’s psychol…
Moving Through Conflict
Much of human communication is nonverbal, through body and movement expression and messages. Different cultures and societies have their own nonverbal lexicons that are a crucial part of each person's individual movement patterns. Conflicts between members of different cultures that often first unconsciously arise on the nonverbal level can contribute to serious misunderstandings of another's behavior and motivation. This workshop offered partici…
Carmi Harari (1920-2003)
The Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology Connection
This article explores the common ground between positive and humanistic psychology and responds to positive psychology's challenges to humanistic psychology about research and a concern for social values. It begins with a brief review of the humanistic psychology movement and shows how its many developments in fact constitute a "positive psychology." Next, the article moves into an exploration of the unique research approaches and areas of study …
High-risk youth and the transition to adulthood
This study demonstrates the application of humanistic psychological research and practice methods to the problem of high‐risk adolescents. Using a multiple case study method, the study examined the experiences of four high‐risk high school students who participated in a coping skills class. Findings included significant growth of each student's relationship with self, family and learning. Each experienced long‐term sobriety, steady employment, po…
Kinesthetic Imagining
This article addresses the problem of embodiment in terms of the objectified body, the mute body, and meaningless action and seeks to restore a language of embodiment and an embodied language in terms of the conscious body, action language, and action hermeneutics
Remembering Rollo May
(1994). In memoriam: Remembering Rollo May: An interview with Irvin Yalom. The Humanistic Psychologist: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 268-274
Reflections on becoming a humanistic psychologist
The Anne Sexton complex
From Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf and Anne Sexton, artists have identified with the downward pull of the creative unconscious toward death. Death appears in images of a sexual, mystical, or ecstatic union with the ghostly lover or mother. This paper explores an alternative creative model for women which does not lead to death, by documenting the case history of a woman artist who attempted suicide, but who lived to tell her story. The case hist…
Tribute to Laura Perls
This article is a narrative about Laura Perls's life and death. Because women's narratives are often not heard, and because Laura wrote very little, it is important to tell her story. Laura studied with Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, was a dancer and concert pianist, and wanted to name the emerging Gestalt therapy "existential therapy." Because her version of Gestalt therapy is closer to philosophy and the arts and emphasizes a more "feminine" su…
In memoriam of Laura Perls
(1991). In memoriam of Laura Perls. The Humanistic Psychologist: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 105-113
The Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology Connection
This article explores the common ground between positive and humanistic psychology and responds to positive psychology's challenges to humanistic psychology about research and a concern for social values. It begins with a brief review of the humanistic psychology movement and shows how its many developments in fact constitute a "positive psychology." Next, the article moves into an exploration of the unique research approaches and areas of study …
Kinesthetic Imagining
This article addresses the problem of embodiment in terms of the objectified body, the mute body, and meaningless action and seeks to restore a language of embodiment and an embodied language in terms of the conscious body, action language, and action hermeneutics
Rollo May on Existential Psychotherapy
This article is a lightly edited transcription of an interview conducted by Kirk Schneider, John Galvin, and Ilene Serlin with Rollo May at his retreat home in Holderness, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1987. Drawing from the influence of his forefathers, Freud, Jung, Fromm, Adler, Sullivan, and Rank as well as classical mythology, philosophy, and literature, May gives a passionate explanation of existential psychotherapy and why it is so urgent…
The History and Future of Humanistic Psychology
Since much of humanistic psychology’s agenda has been taken up by mainstream psychology and culture, the question of whether humanistic psychology is relevant today is critical. This article draws on Maslow’s description of “sickness of the soul” to argue that a psychology that stresses connection and embodied experience, meaning and ethics, creativity and dreams, resilience and self-actualization is needed now more than ever
Tribute to Laura Perls
This article is a narrative about Laura Perls's life and death. Because women's narratives are often not heard, and because Laura wrote very little, it is important to tell her story. Laura studied with Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, was a dancer and concert pianist, and wanted to name the emerging Gestalt therapy "existential therapy." Because her version of Gestalt therapy is closer to philosophy and the arts and emphasizes a more "feminine" su…
Moving Through Conflict
Much of human communication is nonverbal, through body and movement expression and messages. Different cultures and societies have their own nonverbal lexicons that are a crucial part of each person's individual movement patterns. Conflicts between members of different cultures that often first unconsciously arise on the nonverbal level can contribute to serious misunderstandings of another's behavior and motivation. This workshop offered partici…
A Tribute to Rollo May and the Arts
This article will focus on Rollo May’s contribution to psychology through his celebration of the arts as an expression of the human psyche. His vision of psychology was one grounded in the humanities, the great classics, and Greek mythology, and his vision of psychotherapy training emphasized a broad cultural education. Rollo May was opposed to quick fixes and technical training, and his vision of psychotherapy is sorely needed in today’s psychol…
In memoriam of Laura Perls
(1991). In memoriam of Laura Perls. The Humanistic Psychologist: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 105-113
Tribute to Laura Perls
This article is a narrative about Laura Perls's life and death. Because women's narratives are often not heard, and because Laura wrote very little, it is important to tell her story. Laura studied with Martin Buber and Paul Tillich, was a dancer and concert pianist, and wanted to name the emerging Gestalt therapy "existential therapy." Because her version of Gestalt therapy is closer to philosophy and the arts and emphasizes a more "feminine" su…
The Anne Sexton complex
From Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf and Anne Sexton, artists have identified with the downward pull of the creative unconscious toward death. Death appears in images of a sexual, mystical, or ecstatic union with the ghostly lover or mother. This paper explores an alternative creative model for women which does not lead to death, by documenting the case history of a woman artist who attempted suicide, but who lived to tell her story. The case hist…
Remembering Rollo May
(1994). In memoriam: Remembering Rollo May: An interview with Irvin Yalom. The Humanistic Psychologist: Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 268-274
Reflections on becoming a humanistic psychologist
High-risk youth and the transition to adulthood
This study demonstrates the application of humanistic psychological research and practice methods to the problem of high‐risk adolescents. Using a multiple case study method, the study examined the experiences of four high‐risk high school students who participated in a coping skills class. Findings included significant growth of each student's relationship with self, family and learning. Each experienced long‐term sobriety, steady employment, po…
Kinesthetic Imagining
This article addresses the problem of embodiment in terms of the objectified body, the mute body, and meaningless action and seeks to restore a language of embodiment and an embodied language in terms of the conscious body, action language, and action hermeneutics
The Humanistic Psychology and Positive Psychology Connection
This article explores the common ground between positive and humanistic psychology and responds to positive psychology's challenges to humanistic psychology about research and a concern for social values. It begins with a brief review of the humanistic psychology movement and shows how its many developments in fact constitute a "positive psychology." Next, the article moves into an exploration of the unique research approaches and areas of study …
Carmi Harari (1920-2003)
Moving Through Conflict
Much of human communication is nonverbal, through body and movement expression and messages. Different cultures and societies have their own nonverbal lexicons that are a crucial part of each person's individual movement patterns. Conflicts between members of different cultures that often first unconsciously arise on the nonverbal level can contribute to serious misunderstandings of another's behavior and motivation. This workshop offered partici…
Rollo May on Existential Psychotherapy
This article is a lightly edited transcription of an interview conducted by Kirk Schneider, John Galvin, and Ilene Serlin with Rollo May at his retreat home in Holderness, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1987. Drawing from the influence of his forefathers, Freud, Jung, Fromm, Adler, Sullivan, and Rank as well as classical mythology, philosophy, and literature, May gives a passionate explanation of existential psychotherapy and why it is so urgent…
A Tribute to Rollo May and the Arts
This article will focus on Rollo May’s contribution to psychology through his celebration of the arts as an expression of the human psyche. His vision of psychology was one grounded in the humanities, the great classics, and Greek mythology, and his vision of psychotherapy training emphasized a broad cultural education. Rollo May was opposed to quick fixes and technical training, and his vision of psychotherapy is sorely needed in today’s psychol…
The History and Future of Humanistic Psychology
Since much of humanistic psychology’s agenda has been taken up by mainstream psychology and culture, the question of whether humanistic psychology is relevant today is critical. This article draws on Maslow’s description of “sickness of the soul” to argue that a psychology that stresses connection and embodied experience, meaning and ethics, creativity and dreams, resilience and self-actualization is needed now more than ever
Life, death and transformation
This article demonstrates the use of a new method of group work in dance movement therapy. The approach is existential/depth, and the major themes of confrontation with mortality, freedom and fate, death and rebirth are explored in movement. The benefits of this approach are seen in how these themes illuminate group process, through a small group improvisation and performance, and the way in which it helped participants understand and cope with a…
Responding to natural and manmade disaster with dance movement therapy
Dance movement therapy (DMT) is a relatively new form of mind/body psychotherapy that builds on the use of non-verbal communication and symbolic movement. Although it has been used primarily in psychiatric and medical settings, its use with challenges of cultural dislocation and trauma is relatively new. Dance movement therapy can be effective in treating individual, family and community trauma resulting from disasters. Working with the body and …
I am my own egg
Abraham Maslow as a Jewish Prophet
Reading Maslow is alive, like experiencing a dialogue with a text. This article explores this writer’s response to Maslow’s narrative style, as well as to his powerful content. Using a personal narrative style that situates the reader in a Jewish context during the most powerful time of the year, the writer responds to Maslow as a Jewish prophet who prophecizes some of the dead-ends of the mechanistic science that he critiques in “Toward a Humani…
Donna Rockwell and Love
This tribute to Donna Rockwell focuses on three aspects of her essential quality of love: her warm presence, her championing of meditative and embodied wisdom paths, and her selfless mentorship of other women students and colleagues
Psychology (17 works) · Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Humanistic psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)