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Fred Newman Tag

26 Mar Words to Ponder #24

Posted at 23:15h in Creativity, I Like This, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

"Science, Spirituality and Social Therapy" is the theme of this quote from Fred Newman (from the book Psychological Investigations: A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy, Edited by Lois Holzman & Rafael Mendez). I think there is a powerful and important connection between spirituality and human growth. For the bulk of this...

28 Feb Words to Ponder #23

Posted at 18:28h in I Like This, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Words to Ponder 2 Comments

Fred Newman was a playwright and theatre director as well as a social therapist (and philosopher, community organizer and political strategist). He loved creating conversation on therapy and theatre. Here's excerpts from a class he gave on The Therapeutics of Theatre—in 2002, and just as relevant (maybe more so) 15 years later. My...

14 Feb Words to Ponder #22

Posted at 17:05h in Activity Theory, I Like This, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Social Therapy, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

Groups. Individuals. Decisions. Descriptions. Science. Measurement. Therapy. Fred Newman brings them all together in "Undecidable Emotions (What is Social Therapy? And How is it Revolutionary?)". Here's an excerpt from the article published in 2003 in The Journal of Constructivist Psychology (Volume 16, pp. 215-232). You can read the article in...

02 Feb Words to Ponder #21

Posted at 03:05h in Creativity, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

For the next few months I’ll be using "Words to Ponder" to share some words of Fred Newman—the public philosopher, creator of social therapy, political activist, “architect” of a new progressivism, and my friend and intellectual partner for 35 years. I hope you are moved and/or provoked by them. The...

30 Jan Activist-Scholars: A Story within a Story

Posted at 01:53h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

I want to introduce you to a unique activist-scholar community that played an especially important role in my development. It's the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (also known as LCHC or, simply, the Lab). Housed at the University of California San Diego since 1979, the Lab is a community of...

08 Sep Psychology, Theatre, Fact and Value—Newman’s Manifesto

Posted at 18:19h in Culture, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 3 Comments

I'm immersed this week in final preparations for the 9th Performing the World event, PTW '16: Can We Perform Our Way to Power? (September 23-25) and in working on the science chapter for my online book The Overweight Brain. One thing led to another, as they always do. I was beginning to...

22 Dec Words to Ponder #13

Posted at 16:08h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Philosophy, What's New, Words to Ponder 1 Comment

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

Posted at 17:44h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Interviews, Learning Environments, Look and Listen, Philosophy, Play, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

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...

24 Oct Words to Ponder #8

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

This week's words are from Fred Newman's and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem. To reshape our emotional practice— to decide for ourselves what it is we want to do with anger, joy, humiliation and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity (which is nameless) and with the emotions newly created through/in the activity of building community that redefines...