28 Mar Psychiatry and Social Therapy
Eric Maisel interviewed Hugh Polk, psychiatrist and social therapist, for his The Future of Mental Health series. ...
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01 Mar The Future of Mental Health—Social Therapy
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Eric Maisel interviewed me on social therapy for his The Future of Mental Health Series at Psychology Today...
23 Feb Performance Breakthrough
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My friend and colleague Cathy Salit, CEO of Performance of a Lifetime and an East Side Institute faculty member, has a new book coming out on April 12. For many years, Cathy and her team have brought the power of performance to the people who work in hundreds of global companies...
19 Feb Creating Conversation on Non-Knowing Growing
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Thanks to the dozens of people who created conversation with me the week of Februry 8-12 on my book-in-progress, The Overweight Brain. You can view the online running conversation—so thoughtful and playful—and view or listen to the live chat. Video recording of the webinar with Lois Holzman on The Overweight Brain: Audio...
27 Jan Some Great Dialogues on Mental Health
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Eric Maisel is conducting 100+ interviews on the future of mental health and posting them on his Psychology Today blog. Each week, he's summarizing them at Mad in America. Here's week 1's summary of The Future of Mental Health Interview Series And here's links to each interview Day 1: Bonnie Burstow on feminist psychotherapy and...
11 Jan Taos Institute Webinar on “The Overweight Brain”
Thanks to the Taos Institute for hosting me for a "Conversation with the Author" webinar February 8-12. Anyone can register for free and join in. From February 8-11 people can post comments and questions and create written conversation with each other and me. Then on Friday February 12 10-11:30 EST...
09 Jan The Wasteland of the Free
[youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqDpL0YCvI[/youtube] I love Iris DeMent's voice. A favorite album of mine is her duets with John Prine, In Spite of Oursevles. I just came something different—a very political song, "Living in the Wasteland of the Free." Here are the lyrics Living in the wasteland of the free...
22 Dec Words to Ponder #13
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Today’s Words to Ponder are spoken by Sir Malcolm Muckerex, the pompous and erudite narrator in Fred Newman’s play, “Life Upon the Wicked Stage.” The play was first performed live at the American Psychological Association Convention in 1997; you can watch a video performance of it here. The world is a wicked...
11 Dec Vygotsky in Practice
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You might enjoy this conversation between Fred Newman and me from 18 years ago! We're looking at the various Vygotskian inspired projects we and our community created and if and how they're "Vygotskian." It was fascinating seeing them in their earlier years (once I got over the shock of seeing a much...
09 Dec Apolitical Intellectuals
The Castillo Theatre of the All Stars Project is named for Otto Rene Castillo, the Guatemalan poet and revolutionary. In this video, members, staff and volunteers of the Castillo Theatre perform "Apolitical Intellectuals"—the Castillo poem that inspired them. [embed]http://https://youtu.be/XSVoNZrjI6A[/embed] ...