title: Reconceiving myself: challenging conundrums and creating feminist community psychology.
abstract: This narrative describes how contexts in which I grew up influenced my pursuit of feminist community psychology and my work in a master's level community psychology program. Grappling inside and outside with longings that appear contradictory and contradictions that others do not experience has fueled passionate engagement with life and work. Growing up an Irish Catholic girl in the Midwest U.S. post World War II era informed and constrained my relational and vocational choices. Participation in consciousness raising and informal community building initiatives opened opportunities for personal, professional and political growth. These intensely personal interconnected stories describe conundrums that I experienced and the ways in which they were reconceived and repaired in the process of creating self, work and community.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, 870 Broadway St, Lowell, MA 01854, USA. anne-mulvey@uml.edu
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mulvey
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D019513:Feminism; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept