Author: loisholzman

28 Aug A Diagnostic Alternative You Might Not Have Thought Possible

Posted at 15:44h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Events, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

Three weeks ago I was in Washington, DC for the First Summit on Diagnostic Alternatives. It marked what I think is an important turning point for what has been a loud outcry against the DSM-5. The Summit was sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Psychology, which has been a...

28 Aug What’s A Problem and How Do Make It Vanish?

Posted at 14:06h in Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes, Wittgenstein 0 Comments

I’m excited to be leading a Revolutionary Conversation sponsored by the Institute this fall—the subject of which is Ludwig Wittgenstein and his views on language, logic, learning and looking. Wittgenstein was a unique, eccentric and brilliant 20th century philosopher who took apart nearly every concept that underlies how psychology, education and...

16 Aug Social Therapeutics and China

Posted at 14:14h in Human Development, Interviews, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

“What do you think of the relevance of social therapeutics to China and Chinese psychology?” This is one of the questions posed to me by a Chinese colleague, Bo Wang, who is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Nanjing University. Bo and I have known each other for a...

13 Aug The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders

Posted at 16:23h in I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, What's New 2 Comments

"The Decline of Play and Rise of Mental Disorders" by Peter Gray TEDxNavesink is a TED Editor's Pick this week. Peter and I are both fans of the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham MA. We both wrote about the school in the 90s (my book, Schools for Growth). We're also both...

13 Aug My first Japanese Book!

Posted at 01:33h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 4 Comments

Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...

02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical

Posted at 17:30h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment

I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...

19 Jul Piano Stairs

Posted at 15:04h in I Like This, Look and Listen, Play 0 Comments

Piano stairs at the metro station show walking can be fun. Check out Fun Theory. 13,000 folks already have. ...

16 Jul How Shall We Become?

Posted at 21:47h in Community Organizing, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Performing the World 2014 (PTW’14) is in full gear. The theme for this 8th PTW—“How Shall We Become?”—resonated! Nearly 200 proposals came to us from all parts of the world, from all kinds of people, from all kinds of communities. Most exciting was the way that nearly all the proposals...

30 Jun Mediation and Development

Posted at 00:27h in Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments

On June 25-27, 2014 I’ll be conducting training sessions for Inmedio, a German consulting firm offering mediation and conflict consultation for firms, non-profit organizations, teams and groups. This is the second time I’ve worked in Frankfurt with these talented and committed people—their trainees, principals and associates....

15 Jun The Possibility, Pleasure, Progress and Paradox of Play

Posted at 10:32h in Events, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, Speaking Engagements, What's New 2 Comments

I'm really pleased to share TEDxNavesink PLAY, which took place on May 10th at Two River Theatre in Red Bank NJ. You can watch the terrific videos of the talks and entertainment (talks grouped under Possibility, Pleasure, Progress, and Paradox; you can find mine under Possibility). ...