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Psychotherapy

30 Aug Newman’s Grassroots Critical Psychology Movement

Posted at 02:45h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 4 Comments

August 29, 2011 I'm on a working vacation at the beautiful ocean community of Montauk, at the very tip of Long Island. Today, after the preparations for and actuality of Hurrican Irene (which was not too bad out here), I got to some reading. One book is Rom Harre's Pavlov's Dogs...

11 Jul Fred Newman—Appreciation, Not Description

Posted at 15:03h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development 1 Comment

July 11, 2011 Hundreds of messages are filling my inbox—outpourings of condolences, love and respect on the passing of Fred Newman. From all corners of the world those who studied with Fred, read one of our books, heard him speak in person or on video, or “met” him through others are...

05 Jul Fred Newman 1935-2011

Posted at 19:13h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 1 Comment

July 5, 2011 I share this news with deep sadness. My dear friend, mentor and colleague Fred Newman passed away a few minutes before July 3 turned to July 4, Independence Day in the USA. Fred was nothing if not fiercely and passionately independent culturally and politically. But not psychologically or...

21 Jun Wittgenstein and Therapy and the Masses

Posted at 19:15h in Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

June 21, 2011 Fred Newman and I have written quite a bit about the specific ways that Ludwig Wittgenstein has influenced the social therapeutic practice and our understanding and articulation of the practice. As I teach a course/lead a conversation, “The Thought Leadership of Fred Newman,” these past three weeks (as...

03 Mar A Global Learning Community

Posted at 03:23h in Activity Theory, Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

March 3, 2010 Please help me publicize a unique program—The International Class. I began this seven years ago and had no idea how much it would help me and all its participants grow, or how powerful the impact would be on community organizers and talented educators and peformers, or what a...

18 Jan A Turning Point

Posted at 18:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 2 Comments

January 18, 2011 If you need a pick-me-up today, something to inspire you, maybe this will do the trick: Ishita Sanyal is founder of the Calcutta-based grassroots mental health group, Turning Point, and an avid promoter and proselytizer on behalf of a social therapeutic approach to mental health. On a subcontinent where...

02 Jan Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy

Posted at 22:16h in Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

January 2, 2011 I had a busy December, highlighted by completing a draft article that will appear in a Chinese language journal and traveling to Serbia (whichI will write about in another post). The article, "Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy," will appear in the Register of Social Critical Theories, which comes out...

02 Nov The Community Therapist

Posted at 13:53h in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

November 2, 2010 Here's a blog I highly recommend—The Community Therapist. It's written by Christine LaCerva, director of the Social Therapy Group and of the Institute's Therapist Training. Her latest entry reports on a conversation she had recently with Anthony Rao, author of The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in...

31 Oct Psychologist or Artist?

Posted at 21:28h in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

October 31, 2010 "My parents had 3 children. My older brother became an artist. My younger brother became actor, director and theater producer. I became a psychologist. Maybe, that is why I am so invested in understanding psychology as an artistic creation. It is very important for me to build a...

30 Oct Activity and Performance (and their Discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method

Posted at 23:31h in Activity Theory, Human Development, Language, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 0 Comments

October 30, 2010 I recently finished a revision of a chapter on social therapy, by Fred Newman and me, for a book being put together by Tom Strong (University of Calgary) and Andy Lock (Massey University), two long-time postmodern colleagues of ours. The book, Discursvie Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice, is scheduled...