Author: loisholzman

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:...

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...