This post begins what I will try to make a weekly feature—a sharing of quotes that inspire me think/see/feel/relate in some (new) ways. Here's one I return to over and over again. "A psychology with a natural science method contains an insoluble contradiction. It is a natural science about unnatural things [and produces]...
I've been rereading my Psychology Today columns since I began writing them over two years ago. It's something I'm doing while I'm finishing up writing a chapter on psychology for my online book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better...
Inner City Youth Need Development, Not Just Jobs Nice piece in the Chicago Business Journal with David Cherry, City Leader of All Stars Project Chicago and of the Chicago branch of its Development School for Youth. ...
Caught on Tape for August—Making a Conceptual Revolution with Lois Holzman and Eric Maisel Each month the Institute features a discussion of an audio or video recording from our web archives. These rich and varied presentations touch on a range of topics, such as group collective creativity, meaning-making, performance and play, learning...
I'm a big fan of Sugata Mitra. His work creating environments for and documenting self organizing learning environments (SOLE) is stunning. And here in his 2103 TED Talk about half way into the talk he raises the question, "Is Knowing obsolete?" And answers YES! I'm going to send him Fred Newman's...
I haven’t attended the American Psychological Association convention in about ten years. But I couldn’t turn down an invitation to speak on a symposium on alternatives to diagnosis. And so, I’ll be traveling to Toronto in a few weeks for this year’s convention. The session, organized by SUNY New Paltz psychology...
It's been about a month since Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt's comments on "girls" in science, and the furor hasn't stopped yet. But along with his sexism is dangerous scientism—“Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in...
Each June, I spend 2 weeks or so with an international group of innovators/activists/scholars/community organizers. They are the Institute's International Class, in NYC for the third and final residency of their 10 month program. It's a unique kind of time together—intensely active, intellectually and emotionally challenging and growthful for all, and...
What's Developing in a World in Crisis? with Jackie Salit and Lois Holzman Each month the East Side Institute chooses an audio or video recording from its storehouse of talks and workshops. Some are classics, going back to the 1990s and featuring Fred Newman's annual lectures and plays. Others are from events...
I just got word that a new book to which I contributed is hot off the presses. It’s titled Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Editor Del Loewenthal, Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton in the UK, has done an impressive job of bringing...