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
Thursday, February 20th
6:00-7:30 p.m. EST
Wednesday, March 12th
7:00-8:30 p.m. EST
Call for Proposals
Psychology and the Other 2025
The Psychology and the Other Conference will take place at Boston College & Online from September 19-21, 2025.
We welcome proposals for group symposia, individual papers, and posters that engage in meaningful dialogue between psychology, philosophy, theology, and humanities-related disciplines. Student posters are highly encouraged.听Our goal is to foster conversations that challenge and deepen our disciplines through interdisciplinary exchange.
Deadline for submissions: February 13, 2025
Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP) Special Issue
The Journal of Humanistic Psychology invites submissions for a special issue on Liberation Psychologies and Transformative Praxis. Inspired by Ignacio Mart铆n-Bar贸鈥檚 vision of a psychology for liberation, this issue explores how psychology can critically engage with oppression, resist dehumanization, and foster transformative action for collective healing.
We welcome theoretical papers, empirical studies, narrative testimonios, critical translations, and arts-based contributions that foreground psychopolitics, liberatory praxis, and decolonial thought. Submissions may engage with themes such as critical consciousness, de-ideologization, historical recovery, aesthetic reclamation, and liberatory mental health practices.
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2025
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.
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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.
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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.
“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.”