publications

Research in Post-Compulsory Education (in press)

The practice review is recommended for practice-as-research projects, and yet there is relatively little guidance as to how to undertake such a review. One significant exception is the work of Dr. Emily Pott, whose paper, “The Literature/Practice Review: Use of Creative Practice During the Review Period and Its Potential to Reshape Research Projects,” was published in Research in Post-Compulsory Education in 2021. The present article applies and expands on Pott’s work concerning the practice review, which embraces the tool of recreative practice. In particular, Harkey extends the practice review into the domain of self-directed learning, advocating an autodidactic practice review. Using her own case as an example, she considers a skill gap she encountered in her own development as a researcher, which she successfully remediated by applying and adapting Pott’s recreative practice approach. She then explores a simple structure for an autodidactic practice review, and shares some of the discoveries she made in reviewing the writing practices of novelist Stephen King and literary phenomenologist Maurice Blanchot. The article concludes with the acknowledgement that each research project makes unique demands, and therefore requires an expansion of the researcher’s skills. The autodidactic practice review provides a flexible tool for answering such knowledge gaps pertaining to creative and artistic research practices. Link to journal will be posted at time of publication.

Psychological Perspectives (in press)

An otherworldy mother with two personalities. A cousin with a gift for spiritualist mediumship. Family secrets, peculiar relations, and eerie doublings. In an almost uncanny way, the events and figures of C. G. Jung’s early life echo the themes of Gothic literature. This article explores the motifs of Gothic literature and the real-life unfolding of these motifs in Jung’s life and work. After considering the often eldritch historical details of Preiswerk and Jung families, this paper turns to the question of how these elements unfolded in the theories of Jungian psychology. Finally, the text concludes with a consideration of what telos, or purpose, the Gothic itself may have had ‘in mind’ when it settled so powerfully into the world of a young man who would become an explorer and teacher of the subtleties of psyche. Link to journal will be posted at time of publication.

Quadrant, Vol 51 no. 2 (2022)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a fast-growing therapeutic modality. Although its creator, Richard Schwartz, developed the technique before encountering any of Jung’s work, IFS and depth psychology are certainly cousins. Both acknowledge the existence of a psyche housing multiple, autonomous parts, insisting that the presence of internal figures is a function of a normally functioning self. Both suggest methods of inner dialogue for working with these subpersonalities. This article, then, considers what depth psychologists can learn from IFS, particularly asking, If subpersonalities can change and grow, what are our responsibilities to these inner figures? ⎋  Quadrant, Vol 51 no. 2

Knopf Books for Young Readers, a division of Random House (2018)

A story of an at-risk ‘tween,’ this novel for readers grades 4-7, tells the tale of young ‘Hush’ Cantrell, who discovers that she can remove others’ pain. A meditation on the path of the wounded healer, Hush’s story also considers the nature of friendship, family, and the Divine. ⇥  Sneak Thief