Unpsychology Magazine: Indie Publishing as Desire Line

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/1Q82AOIoK6hLinks and referenceshttps://www.unpsychology.orghttps://unpsychology.substack.comhttps://medium.com/unpsychologymaghttps://www.instagram.com/unpsychologyhttps://www.facebook.com/unpsychologyGet hold of free digital and print versions of UnpsychologyMagazine from: https://unpsychology.substack.com/p/unpsychology-edges-in-printEssay about current position of Unpsychologyhttps://unpsychology.substack.com/p/steps-forward-steps-backhttps://ziggyslament.substack.comhttps://www.instagram.com/stevethorp54/https://www.rawmixture.co.uk/https://www.rawmixture.co.uk/OURBOOKSBooks and articlesArt Objects by Jeanette WintersonThe Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake KogaBetween activism and academia: zine-making as a feminist response to COVID-19) by Dr Emily Gray