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Unpsychology Magazine: Indie Publishing as Desire Line
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Unpsychology Magazine: Indie Publishing as Desire Line

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Steve Thorp is a psychotherapist, writer and editor ofUnpsychology Magazine. He is also author of music publication Ziggy's Lament, as well as essays and poems in various publications including Dark Mountain and the recent Climate, Psychology, and Change edited by Steffi Bednarak. He has edited and contributed to several books on race equality and education before training in psychotherapy and working with school staff and student wellbeing for manyyears.

Steve is author of several books published by Raw MixturePublishing including Soul Manifestos and Pieces of Joy (2014); Soul Meditations (2016) Blue Marble (2017) and Lifesongs (2021) with illustrator, Ruth Thorp, and his PoetryMix series (2019) with Mary Thorp. He also has had a number ofpoetry pamphlets and collaborations with other illustrators including Mary Thorp and Kim Major-George. Steve has taken part in a number of exhibitions including at the Dark Mountain Gathering and St Davids Cathedral, with artist Kim Major-George, and at Oriel y Parc Gallery and Visitor Centre in St Davids.

In this episode Emily and Steve talk about self publishingas a desire line, building communities through writing, indie zine culture, psychology, punk and more. Also included are poetic interludes where listeners can enjoy spoken word by Steve. The ending piece features music by Patrick Carpenter, and was created for Unpsychology issue 9.1.

A transcript of this episode is available here: https://share.descript.com/view/1Q82AOIoK6h

Links and references

https://www.unpsychology.org

https://unpsychology.substack.com

https://medium.com/unpsychologymag

https://www.instagram.com/unpsychology

https://www.facebook.com/unpsychology

Get hold of free digital and print versions of UnpsychologyMagazine from: https://unpsychology.substack.com/p/unpsychology-edges-in-print

Essay about current position of Unpsychologyhttps://unpsychology.substack.com/p/steps-forward-steps-back


https://ziggyslament.substack.com

https://www.instagram.com/stevethorp54/

https://www.rawmixture.co.uk/https://www.rawmixture.co.uk/OURBOOKS

Books and articles
Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson

The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Between activism and academia: zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19) by Dr Emily Gray

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