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AHP Perspective is a magazine published bi-monthly for members of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. It includes interviews, articles, essays, updates on member activities, conference announcements, and book reviews. Members receive the complete AHP Perspective as part of their membership.

June / July 2002

Online Websights Column

AHPWEB RESOURCES on the 40th ANNIVERSARY — and New MEMBERLINKS . . . Bruce Wochholz

Online Sample Article

GAINING THE EXISTENTIAL HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE:
A TRIBUTE TO CARL ROGERS AND AHP . . . Bob Edelstein

SPIRITUAL INQUIRY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE EFFECT
OF MANAGED CARE . . . Katherine Kainz

I CAN REMEMBER WHEN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND
COUNSELING WERE FUN! CAN YOU? . . . Len Bergantino

June / July 2002
C O N T E N T S

NEWS & COLUMNS]

5 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

6-8 INSIDE AHP AHP VOTE! Election Ballot, Board Nominee Statements, AHP national conference, Community Calendar, AHP columnist at The Matrix, Upcoming Perspective topics

10 WEB SIGHTS . . . Bruce Wochholz

AHP 40th Anniversary Memories
11 • AHP CAPSULE HISTORY
14 • GAINING THE EXISTENTIAL HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE:
A TRIBUTE TO CARL ROGERS AND AHP . . . Bob Edelstein
16 • POOL YOUR ASSETS PARTY: A LIBERATING EXPERIENCE......Niravi Payne
17 • VIGNETTES OF SOME GREATS . . . Niela Miller

Professionaol Issues
18 • SPIRITUAL INQUIRY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE EFFECT
OF MANAGED CARE . . . Katherine Kainz
20 • I CAN REMEMBER WHEN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND
COUNSELING WERE FUN! CAN YOU? . . . Len Bergantino
22 • EMBRACING THE TIGER: CHALLENGES IN COMPASSION
. . . Mukti Khanna

REVIEWS

27 • DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE by Rick Strassman . . . Paul Von Ward
27 • MEAN GENES: FROM SEX TO MONEY TO FOOD, TAMING OUR PRIMAL INSTINCTS by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan . . . Christopher Ryan and Stanley Krippner
30 • WRITING FROM THE INSIDE OUT: TRANSFORMING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL BLOCKS TO RELEASE THE WRITER WITHIN by Dennis Palumb . . . Don Eulert
30 • ONE CONTINUOUS MISTAKE: FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS FOR WRITERS by Gail Sher . . . Lynn Vaughn
31 • WORDS THAT SHINE BOTH WAYS by Richard Moss . . . Lynn Vaughn
31 • GIVING SORROW WORDS edited by Karen vanMeenan and Charles Rossiter (free poetry book)

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