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28 Aug A Diagnostic Alternative You Might Not Have Thought Possible

Posted at 15:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Events, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...

16 Aug Social Therapeutics and China

Posted at 14:14h in Human Development, Interviews, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

“What do you think of the relevance of social therapeutics to China and Chinese psychology?” This is one of the questions posed to me by a Chinese colleague, Bo Wang, who is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Nanjing University. Bo and I have known each other for a...

13 Aug My first Japanese Book!

Posted at 01:33h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 4 Comments

Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...

02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical

Posted at 17:30h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment

I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...

16 Jul How Shall We Become?

Posted at 21:47h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Performing the World 2014 (PTW’14) is in full gear. The theme for this 8th PTW—“How Shall We Become?”—resonated! Nearly 200 proposals came to us from all parts of the world, from all kinds of people, from all kinds of communities. Most exciting was the way that nearly all the proposals...

07 Jun Play is a Human Right

Posted at 17:51h in Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, What's New 3 Comments

You might be surprsied to know that play is a children's right according to the UN. Here's a video to promote and advocate for its realization around the globe. This is Me: Article 31 and a Child's Right to Play (narrated by CUNY Graduate Center's Roger Hart) My question—what about the rest...

07 Jun What’s Developing in a World in Crisis?

Posted at 14:20h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, Look and Listen, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, What's New 0 Comments

Through the programs of the East Side Institute I've had the privilege of working with hundreds of people around the world who have added elements of social therapeutics/a psychology of becoming to their practices as educators, artists, performers, youth workers, therapists, health workers, psychologists, and community organizers. At this date,...

21 May A Symposium and Workshop Like No Other—Discover Development NYC

Posted at 01:25h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, I Like This, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, What's New 1 Comment

I spent the weekend with nine terrific people discovering and creating development. The occasion was the spring Discover Development-NYC, a twice-a-year three day adventure that I have the privilege of leading thanks to the East Side Institute. People come together and immerse themselves in developmental activities of the Institute, the...

14 May What Psychology COULD Look Like

Posted at 17:49h in Events, Human Development, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

Fresh from TEDxNavesink in NJ, I'll be heading to Belgrade Serbia VIA SKYPE on Friday, May 30 to speak at the conference of the Serbian Psychological Society. My topic is What Psychology’s Future Could Look Like. Thanks to the University of Belgrade's Bojana Skorc and Tamara Dzamonja for the opportunity! ...

17 Apr Border Dancing with Stan Krippner

Posted at 13:25h in Events, Human Development, What's New 1 Comment

On April 16, "Making a Conceptual Revolution—A Conversation Series with Lois Holzman" featured psychologist Stanley Krippner, a leading expert on altered states of consciousness, dreaming, psychic phenomena, psychedelics, posttraumatic stress disorder, hypnosis, anomalous experiences, indigenous healing, and shamanism. A long-time friend of mine and the East Side Institute, which sponsors the...