Psychology's colonial roots of disconnection and domination obstruct collective well-being through individualism, disembodiment, and secularization. The antidote is love as a decolonial praxis of reconnection to each other, to bodies, and to Spirit. This praxis is illustrated through the creation of a community intervention called critical contemplative dialogues (CCD), tailored for Black, Indigenous, and peoples of color and piloted with seven contemplatives. The intervention is grounded in critical, contemplative, and dialogic frameworks and manifests love through themes of witnessing, dialogue, embodied practice, emergence, and ceremony. Eight emergent guiding values center radical healing and liberation, pointing toward broader applications in psychology.
Jerome L. Singer, who died in 2019 at age 95, is remembered as the pioneering researcher who established daydreaming and mind wandering as normal, adaptive mental activities rather than signs of pathology. Over more than 50 years of work, his research showed that daydreaming is a pervasive aspect of human experience serving positive social and creative functions, earning him the nickname "the father of daydreaming." After earning a PhD in clinical psychology in 1951, he trained as a psychoanalyst and held research appointments before directing the clinical psychology program at City University in 1963, where he studied "decoupled attention" with collaborator John Antrobus. He joined Yale University in 1972, becoming emeritus in 2006, and with his wife Dorothy codirected Yale's Family TV Research and Consultation Center for over 30 years.