Exploring what has been Dismissed and Why
Society of Psychotherapy on Anomalous Experiences
for
Mental Health Professionals
SPAE
The mission of the Society of Psychotherapy on Anomalous Experiences (SPAE) is to encourage the parties that be to recreate a principle of mental health that promotes epistemological flexibility for cultures, populations, and spiritual traditions with diverse ontological and epistemological frameworks.
A New System
SPAE is committed to further developing the mental health system. However, such a task is monumental. It will take more than just adding new approaches. SPAE encourages a foundational thrust to replace a narrow western epistemology with epistemological relativity, reduce hierarchical structures of which mainstream psychiatry wishes to be on top, and create distance between the helping profession and the corporate desire to profit monetarily. Moreover, SPAE hopes to develop a more egalitarian method that honors cultural and spiritual diversity, makes room for the unexplainable experiences of human experience, and empower the client.
Free Monthly Virtual Group
SPAE provides safe connections for therapists to critic the history of mainstream psychiatry and psychology. Everything from how western psychology anchors itself in an epistemology that limits reality and imposes its conclusions onto all people without any regard of their cultural roots. The group looks at how conventional psychiatry has set up the public for pathology. This is especially true of experiencers, namely, those who report having an unexplained autonomous experience that can be traced throughout history. The group meets virtually on the second Friday of each month from 12-1pm EST. Admission is free for those who join SPAE.
