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Author: loisholzman

12 Nov The Individual—Psychology Glorifies What It Doesn’t Care About

Posted at 19:27h in Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

As many readers of this site and the writings of the East Side Institute are aware, Fred Newman and I are among the vocal critics of psychology’s obsession with and glorification of the individual. We agree with our colleagues that psychology developed alongside and played a central role in the...

27 Oct Vygotsky Continues to Work and Play

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 8 Comments

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

27 Oct Addressing Violence through Culture

Posted at 15:58h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Español/Spanish, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Theatre 0 Comments

Dan Friedman (artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and associate dean of UX) and I were in Bogota Colombia last week at the invitation of former mayor Antanas Mockus and his organization Corpovisionarois. We were both keynote speakers at their International Conference on Citizenship Culture. This years theme was "Another...

27 Oct 1000 People Speak Out And Have To Wait A Year To Be Heard

Posted at 02:36h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

This summer I drafted an article for a special issue on diagnostic alternatives of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Having learned that it will be at least a year before publication (which is ridiculous), I am making it available here. Feedback welcome! Diagnosis: A Thousand Ordinary People Speak Out Lois Holzman and Elisabeth...

10 Oct Play is Movement

Posted at 18:50h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 1 Comment

I had a wonderful time this past weekend at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association Conference in Greensboro North Carolina. It was a privilege to be the keynote speaker at the opening banquet, especially since the conference theme was "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning: Using Play, Performance and Improvisation."...

10 Sep Words to Ponder #20

Posted at 17:54h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

I love the sentiment here (from Failure: Why Science is So Successful by Stuart Firestein) You may have noticed that I have a fondness for quotes. It's not so much that I think quoting famous people gives a statement more authority or is less open to criticism. Rather, I think that just because...

09 Sep Culture Interrupted

Posted at 13:25h in Creativity, Culture, Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes 1 Comment

I’m excited to be leading a Revolutionary Conversation this November with Alvaader Frazier—community organizer, human rights attorney, poet and friend. Culture Interrupted...

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...

02 Sep Sugata Mitra Responds to a Skeptic

Posted at 15:29h in I Like This, Look and Listen 1 Comment

A great interview with Sugata Mitra (and a feisty RT interviewer) [youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlOSLMYu1ZY&feature=share[/youtube]...

02 Sep Honor Your Playfulness

Posted at 14:49h in Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 3 Comments

I'm "honored" to be giving the keynote at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association (NCHA) Conference on October 7th. The two-day event is hosted by Lloyd International Honors College on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This year’s theme is "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning:...