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- Title
Življenje in delo Grahama Barnesa (1936-2020) ter njegov prispevek k razvoju psihoterapije v Sloveniji in na Hrvaškem.
- Authors
Možina, Miran
- Abstract
An overview of the life and work of Graham Barnes is provided. His first major professional achievement of was to found an organization to overcome problems of interpersonal and institutional racism and economic inequality. Deeply committed to the profession of psychotherapy, and concerned about its politics, he founded Southeast Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a psychotherapy institute that was set to keep the social and the personal connected, describing social problems as personal problems and personal problems as social problems. He was also the co-leader of the first accredited graduate degree program in psychotherapy, an effort toward affirming the autonomy of psychotherapy as a profession. Lecturing and leading seminars in Europe from 1975 on acclimated him to European life and culture. When he, a politically sensitive gay man, could not openly and freely pursue his civic and professional convictions, in the political climate of the Reagan era, in 1983 he accepted an invitation to move to Sweden -- a passion of his ever since his graduate studies with Scandinavian scholars. In the 80's and 90's he continued to commute from Stockholm to Belgrade, and later to Zagreb, Ljubljana and Rijeka, to teach his own combination of cybernetics with psychotherapy (conceiving of hypnosis as the communicative condition for psychotherapy), and to continue working to resolve racial and ethnic conflicts, resulting in the establishment of systemic psychotherapy institutes in Croatia and Slovenia and a foundation to elect a democratic government in Croatia. The foundation also created idealized designs and experimental scenarios for the country's future. After meeting Gregory Bateson in 1977, Barnes studied with seminal cybernetic and constructivist thinkers. He has given particular attention to Bateson's work, comparing it with the works of other cyberneticians and constructivists, and to the thought of selected other relevant scholars, scientists and literary critics. He continued to explore the nexus between the personal and the social and influences of specific ideas on shaping systems of varying degrees of complexity till his death.
- Publication
KAIROS - Slovenian Journal of Psychotherapy, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 3/4, p343
- ISSN
1854-9373
- Publication type
Article