Author: loisholzman

14 Feb

Posted at 17:05h in Activity Theory, I Like This, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Social Therapy, Words to Ponder

Groups. Individuals. Decisions. Descriptions. Science. Measurement. Therapy. Fred Newman brings them all together in "Undecidable Emotions (What is Social Therapy? And How is it Revolutionary?)". Here's an excerpt from the article published in 2003 in The Journal of Constructivist Psychology (Volume 16, pp. 215-232). You can read the article in...

10 Feb

Posted at 21:12h in I Like This

From Patch Adams and the Gesundheit Institute: Hello my friends! Lots of people have people have been calling me and telling me how sad, mad, or angry they feel about the political discussion lately. While we here at the Gesundheit Institute do not want to weigh into political discussions, we would like...

09 Feb

Posted at 22:59h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes

Hello to my blog followers and fans of The Overweight Brain. If you live in the NYC metro area I’d love for you to join me IN PERSON for a Revolutionary Conversation on psychology’s glorification of the individual—taking place the evenings of Monday March 1 and 8 at the East Side...

30 Jan

Posted at 01:53h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development

I want to introduce you to a unique activist-scholar community that played an especially important role in my development. It's the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (also known as LCHC or, simply, the Lab). Housed at the University of California San Diego since 1979, the Lab is a community of...

05 Jan

Posted at 02:20h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Theatre, What's New

I'm proud to be series editor! This series showcases research, theory and practice linking play and performance to learning and development across the life span. Bringing the concerns of play theorists and performance practitioners together with those of educational and developmental psychologists and counsellors coincides with the increasing professional and public...

17 Dec

Posted at 22:07h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development

My Facebook feed this morning made me happy. Here’s why— That’s Marian Rich—long-time friend, colleague and member of the current  International Class of the East Side Institute—holding a copy of the new Second Edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play. I’m excited for Marian and others to read it! Here’s...