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Author: loisholzman

01 May Talking Back to the Psychiatric Norm

Posted at 12:21h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

Hats off to PJ Moynihan (writer and producer), Oryx Cohen (producer) and Gayle Berg (executive producer) of “Healing Voices” for their documentary film exploring the experience labeled, “psychosis.” And hats off to the hundreds of community organizations worldwide who have, since its release in April 2016, sponsored more than 500...

22 Apr Words to Ponder #25

Posted at 18:50h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, What's New, Words to Ponder 5 Comments

Here's a provocative take on anger from Fred Newman (who often advises us to look in the mirror). Dialogue 52. Dealing with Anger as Activity (From Psychological Investigations: A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy) Student 1: I understand that you believe that expressing anger is a choice. I know that if I...

22 Apr In Conversation with Robert Whitaker: Diagnosis, Drugs and Development

Posted at 15:09h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

Mad in America: A Conversation on Diagnosis, Drugs and Development with Lois Holzman and Robert Whitaker Friday, June 9, 7:00-8:30 p.m. NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan St., Rm 216 (betw. W 3 St. & Washington Sq South) Registration: $35; Student/Retired: $25 (At the door: $40; $30) So many things divide Americans today....

06 Apr A New Kind of Social Activism: Fostering Communication, Creativity, Collaboration and Play

Posted at 20:22h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes 0 Comments

The International Class is the signature program of the East Side Institute. I'm so proud to have taught and coached over 100 activists, educators, counselors, theatre artists and scholars over the years, and played a part in their development as leaders in a new kind of social activism. Read what one...

06 Apr The Therapeutic Power of Performance

Posted at 14:34h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments

I just rewatched this wonderfully intimate and informative video of a plenary session at Performing the World 2012. It begins with some talented improvisors setting the scene, so to speak, for the conversation among five performance activists—Lin-Ching Hsia from Taiwan, Christine LaCerva from NYC, Charles Rozman from France, Lenora Fulani...

02 Apr More on Police and Teens: Venturing beyond “the narrow circle and narrow boundaries” of their individual experience

Posted at 01:01h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

My last post, “Police and Teens, Connecting” (March 29, 2017 ) pointed to an article that appeared in The New York Times that same day. The article featured a unique kind of “connecting” of police and teens—Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, a program of the All Stars Project in partnership with the...

30 Mar Police and Teens, Connecting

Posted at 17:58h in Community Organizing, Culture, I Like This, Outside of School, What's New 0 Comments

Article in The New York Times (March 30, 2017) on Lenora Fulani and Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids, a project of the All Stars Project. What happens when you bring together 10 teenagers from poor communities and 10 police officers to try to get them to talk? Read more ...

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...

12 Mar Creativity and Community—No Dead Prose Here!

Posted at 01:49h in Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, Social Therapy, Theatre, Vygotsky 0 Comments

I'm looking forward to celebrating the launch of my Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development tomorrow afternoon, March 12. Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance, edited by Peter Smagorinsky, is not only the first in the series,...

09 Mar Performance Activist Hector Aristizabal

Posted at 20:28h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Events, Performance Movement 0 Comments

Hector Aristizabal is my guest for another in the series Making a Conceptual Revolution, to take place on Friday evening March 17, 2017. A friend since Performing the World 2012, Hector travels the world bringing his story and gifts to communities beset by violence and trauma. While he's in NYC,...