Author: loisholzman

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...

24 May Science, Objectivity and Our Overweight Brains

Posted at 19:02h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 3 Comments

Here's a sneak peek at the next chapter of The Overweight Brain. I'm giving it the working title — "The Cult(ure) of Science" Chapter 7. The Cult(ure) of Science My beef with science isn't that it’s a scam. Sciences like chemistry, anatomy, biology and physics—unlike psychology—don’t purposely distort what they’re studying to make it...

19 May Beyond Individual Therapy

Posted at 15:45h in I Like This, Look and Listen, Psychotherapy, What's New 1 Comment

David Harper of the University of East London calls for moving beyond individual therapy. Read his essay in The Psychologist (British Psychological Society). "Psychologists could start by going out more to where people conduct their everyday lives (e.g. where they live, study or work). We could encourage more ‘bottom-up’ rather than...

09 May Making a Conceptual Revolution—A Conversation with Joe Glick

Posted at 16:06h in Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 0 Comments

On Friday evening, April 29, 2016 I hosted a conversation with life-span developmental and cultural psychologist Joe Glick, Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The event was part of the East Side Institute’s ongoing series, “Making a Conceptual Revolution,” at which I interview...

26 Apr Is a SOLE a ZPD? A Beginning Conversation

Posted at 16:07h in Education, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, What's New 1 Comment

I’m one of the millions of people who have learned from and been inspired by watching one or both of Sugata Mitra’s TED talks (Build a School in the Cloud, 2013; The Child-Driven Education, 2010 ). A trained physicist, Mitra is an innovative educational researcher currently located at Newcastle University...

19 Apr Become a Fulani Fellow!

Posted at 16:30h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, What's New 0 Comments

The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...