Afterthought

Abstract

Now that you have gotten your journal cluster on Social Issues to this point, I wonder whether that whets your appetite for more. I am, of course, not up to date with Gestalt therapy’s contributions to social issues, even though Paul Goodman was a master at it. Still, the idea of never allowing ignorance to interfere with having an opinion encourages me to wonder whether some identified leadership is required for a more broad exploration within our circle. I think you, Joseph Melnick, would be a good person for that except for the fact that you may have other things on your mind regarding your time of life and what you want to do with it. I also think of Carolyn Lukensmeyer, whom I have heard from recently, as a good associate. Perhaps, you have younger people who promise perspective and energy.It seems to me that the spreading of a message requires a name or a theme that people at large can identify with. Having a group with an international identity where membership is unlimited is a theme from which religion has profited, and about which psychotherapists have been very suspicious. But it is an identifiable community of seekers of orientation about how life should be lived.Perhaps, such groups have a bad name because of the excesses of EST and Landmark and other examinations of life. But that, of course, does not have to be the case. These are some of my thoughts about social issues, and it is stimulating for me to think about the matter. Perhaps that is enough.