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03 Jun

Posted at 18:57h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Social Therapy, What's New

I just got word that a new book to which I contributed is hot off the presses. It’s titled Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Editor Del Loewenthal, Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton in the UK, has done an impressive job of bringing...

07 May

Posted at 01:44h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements

[caption id="attachment_2613" align="aligncenter" width="2448"] Taipei view, next to our hotel[/caption] In April I I had the privilege of spending 5 days in Taiwan at the invitation of a dear long-time colleague, Lin-Ching Hsia. She is a political leader, a community activist and a professor of psychology at Fu-jen Catholic University in...

23 Mar

Posted at 17:16h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming

On March 16 I had the pleasure of attending a symposium at which four Japanese colleagues presented their work. They were visiting the East Side Institute and All Stars Project to learn more, after having participated in a workshop I led months earlier in Kobe Japan. On their last day...

23 Dec

Posted at 19:38h in Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements, What's New

I'll be in London in March 2015 with colleague Jim Wilson to do a workshop at the Institute of Family Therapy. An Introduction to Social Therapeutics: How a Psychology of Becoming Informs a Non-diagnostic, Developmental Therapy Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2015 Lois Holzman and Jim Wilson This conversational workshop will explore...

21 Dec

Posted at 19:11h in Education, I Like This, Learning Environments, Psychology, What's New

The Sunday, December 21, 2014 New York Times feature article, "Raising their Sights," on inspiring students at community colleges. The piece features La Gaurdia Community College psychology professor, Eduardo Vianna. Eduardo is a long-time friend and colleague. Read about his inique and effective program, the Peer Activist Learning Community....

18 Nov

Posted at 20:17h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

              My week in Japan was gratifying in so many ways, most of all the experience of being a participant in the ongoing process of organizing the young generation of Japanese teacher educators and psychology researchers. (A close second was the wonderful taste and visual pleasure of every meal I was...

10 Nov

Posted at 12:17h in Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein

I've been in Japan since Thursday November 6 and I'm half way thorugh my trip. I'll be sharing a more comprehensive report once I return home. I was privileged to present a keynote adress to the Japanese Association for Educational Psychology conference in Kobe on Friday. I titled it The How...