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Author: loisholzman

01 Sep People, Power and Performance

Posted at 14:09h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Theatre 1 Comment

The Performing the World 2016 newsletters can't help but inspire you. Each newsletter features some of the creative performance activists presenting September 23-25 at this important gathering. Check back for more newsletters over the next two weeks. ...

11 Aug The Problem with Experts

Posted at 01:42h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, What's New 1 Comment

"Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World." From the essay, A Thousand Rivers" by Carol Black. It's a wide-ranging indictment of educational and psychological research, and a passionate plea to see how children in...

06 Aug Psychological Ethics

Posted at 01:21h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

The Ethics of Diagnosis and Alternatives to It—An Invitation for Inquiry This week the American Psychological Association holds its annual convention in Denver. I had been planning to attend and present as part of a symposium, “The Future of Diagnosis: Ethics, Social Justice, and Alternative Paradigms.” The topic I planned to...

29 Jul Words to Ponder #19

Posted at 13:05h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder 4 Comments

With the damp dog Curled On my lap My laptop glows An open window on the world A world I'd like to ignore For now. Because now is quiet and still Now is like a tree Singing to itself In the storm. Dan Friedman July 29, 2016 ...

16 Jul What is PTW?

Posted at 20:52h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

Performing the World (PTW) is a cross-disciplinary gathering of practitioners and scholars from every continent. Participants include performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, community organizers and activists, and all others for whom performance, play and the creative/expressive arts offer a new...

14 Jul Survey on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis Reveals Mistrust of Psychiatric Labeling

Posted at 21:32h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 0 Comments

I recently completed a draft paper summarizing and discussing the survey results for a special issue of a journal dedicated to the growing movement to develop alternatives to the current diagnostic system in psychiatry and clinical psychology. In my latest blog post appearing on Mad in America, I give a...

11 Jul Is Mental Health Strictly Mental?

Posted at 00:26h in I Like This, What's New 0 Comments

Check out a guest column by my friend and colleague Peter Smagorinsky at my Psychology Today blog, A Conceptual Revolution....

08 Jun Word to Ponder #19

Posted at 23:19h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology, Vygotsky, What's New 2 Comments

“If you construct a classroom in which children must keep their seats, you are assuring that there will be a hyperactivity syndrome.” Jerome Bruner 1916-2016 [caption id="attachment_3083" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Jerome Bruner & Gita Vygodskaya at East Side Institute Reception in her Honor[/caption]...

29 May The Asperger’s Advantage

Posted at 02:02h in Culture, DSM-5, I Like This, Look and Listen, Psychology, What's New 5 Comments

“Disorder” is an inappropriate term to attach as a fundamental part of the name of a neurological condition. Whether it’s order or disorder is a matter of how it works in relation to other people and settings. Unless this basic idea becomes better understood, too many people will go...