%0 Journal Article
%T Everyday Heroism in Practicing Psychology
%A Harris L. Friedman
%J Journal of Humanistic Psychology
%@ 1552-650X
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0022167817696843
%X Heroism requires acting altruistically in the face of considerable risk. Professions such as psychology are based on working toward a public good and accordingly provide offsetting privileges for the sacrifices expected. Consequently, psychologists occasionally face professional dilemmas that provide everyday heroic opportunities. Examples of such opportunities during one psychologist¡¯s career path are presented and implications for others in the profession are explored. These are put into the context of heroism as a transpersonal act that can be based on self-expansiveness in which someone goes beyond identifying with their self as an isolated entity and, instead, experiences a sense of interconnectedness with others, the world, and even the cosmos
%K heroism
%K profession
%K psychology
%K self-expansiveness
%K transpersonal
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022167817696843