11 Jul Is Mental Health Strictly Mental?
Check out a guest column by my friend and colleague Peter Smagorinsky at my Psychology Today blog, A Conceptual Revolution....
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08 Jun Word to Ponder #19
“If you construct a classroom in which children must keep their seats, you are assuring that there will be a hyperactivity syndrome.” Jerome Bruner 1916-2016 [caption id="attachment_3083" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Jerome Bruner & Gita Vygodskaya at East Side Institute Reception in her Honor[/caption]...
29 May The Asperger’s Advantage
“Disorder” is an inappropriate term to attach as a fundamental part of the name of a neurological condition. Whether it’s order or disorder is a matter of how it works in relation to other people and settings. Unless this basic idea becomes better understood, too many people will go...
24 May Science, Objectivity and Our Overweight Brains
Here's a sneak peek at the next chapter of The Overweight Brain. I'm giving it the working title — "The Cult(ure) of Science" Chapter 7. The Cult(ure) of Science My beef with science isn't that it’s a scam. Sciences like chemistry, anatomy, biology and physics—unlike psychology—don’t purposely distort what they’re studying to make it...
19 May Beyond Individual Therapy
David Harper of the University of East London calls for moving beyond individual therapy. Read his essay in The Psychologist (British Psychological Society). "Psychologists could start by going out more to where people conduct their everyday lives (e.g. where they live, study or work). We could encourage more ‘bottom-up’ rather than...
09 May Making a Conceptual Revolution—A Conversation with Joe Glick
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On Friday evening, April 29, 2016 I hosted a conversation with life-span developmental and cultural psychologist Joe Glick, Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The event was part of the East Side Institute’s ongoing series, “Making a Conceptual Revolution,” at which I interview...
26 Apr Is a SOLE a ZPD? A Beginning Conversation
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I’m one of the millions of people who have learned from and been inspired by watching one or both of Sugata Mitra’s TED talks (Build a School in the Cloud, 2013; The Child-Driven Education, 2010 ). A trained physicist, Mitra is an innovative educational researcher currently located at Newcastle University...
19 Apr Become a Fulani Fellow!
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The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...
04 Apr Words to Ponder #18
What is under consideration is not the ontological state of affairs, but the ontological commitments of a discourse. What there is does not in general depend on one’s use of language, but what one says there is does. American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) ...
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...