Author: loisholzman

27 Jan

Posted at 17:31h in Events, Human Development, I Like This, Interviews, Look and Listen, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

Eric Maisel is conducting 100+ interviews on the future of mental health and posting them on his Psychology Today blog. Each week, he's summarizing them at Mad in America. Here's week 1's summary of The Future of Mental Health Interview Series And here's links to each interview Day 1: Bonnie Burstow on feminist psychotherapy and...

20 Jan

Posted at 20:21h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky

It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....

14 Jan

Posted at 18:08h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Philosophy

On January 25, 2016  I’ll be interviewing Ananta Kumar Giri, associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Tamil Nadu, India, as part of the Side Institute’s “Making a Conceptual Revolution” series. Professor Giri is a fascinating person whose interests include social movements and cultural change, creativity and...

09 Jan

Posted at 02:10h in I Like This, Look and Listen

[youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqDpL0YCvI[/youtube]   I love Iris DeMent's voice. A favorite album of mine is her duets with John Prine, In Spite of Oursevles. I just came something different—a very political song, "Living in the Wasteland of the Free." Here are the lyrics Living in the wasteland of the free...

09 Jan

Posted at 01:43h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, What's New

There's lots of activity around the 9th Performing the World conference/happening to be held in New York City Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. Proposals are due February 21, so please help spread the word (and get your proposals in)! I've heard from PTW old timers who are designing sessions across...