{"id":10027,"date":"2020-02-01T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relationalimplicit.com\/?p=10027"},"modified":"2023-03-30T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T00:59:45","slug":"schneider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/schneider\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Schneider: Exploring the polarized mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This conversation started with Serge Prengel interviewing Kirk Schneider. Very quickly, Kirk became the listener, guiding Serge into an experiential exploration of polarization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We touched upon the personal and embodied impact of the polarized mind (or fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view), as well as some ways of depolarizing the mind (and body).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This interchange addresses the concepts of polarization and depolarization, as well as how one might work with them. It also hints at a larger perspective: how we might develop an inner democracy for the outer democracy to flourish. See also the essay related to this conversation, <a href=\"https:\/\/activepause.com\/polarized-mind\/\"><em>Polarized Mind &amp; Relational Implicit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schneider-Polarized\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/379036297?h=7dff742fb5&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology. Dr. Schneider is the current president of the Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), Council Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), past president (2015-2016) of the Society for Humanistic Psychology (Division 32) of the APA, recent past editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (2005-2012), and adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University. A Fellow of the APA, Dr. Schneider has published over 200 articles, interviews and chapters and has authored or edited 13 books including <em>The Spirituality of Aw<\/em>e, <em>The Polarized Mind<\/em>, <em>Awakening to Awe<\/em>, <em>The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology<\/em>, <em>Existential-Humanistic therapy<\/em>, <em>Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy<\/em>, and the <em>Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy<\/em>. Dr. Schneider\u2019s work has been featured in Scientific American, the New York Times, Psychology Today and many other health and psychology outlets. See his <a href=\"https:\/\/kirkjschneider.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4308\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10027-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/content.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/RI-Schneider-2020-02.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/content.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/RI-Schneider-2020-02.mp3\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/content.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/RI-Schneider-2020-02.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/content.blubrry.com\/relationalimplicit\/RI-Schneider-2020-02.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" download=\"RI-Schneider-2020-02.mp3\">Download<\/a> () <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Published February 2020.<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We touch upon the personal and embodied impact of the polarized mind (or fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,626],"tags":[597,598],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15653,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10027\/revisions\/15653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activepause.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}