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12 Apr Let’s Not Call Them Mental Health Experts Anymore

Posted at 18:22h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 2 Comments

Reprinted below is my Psychology Today column, "Danger! A Frightening New Mental Illness." A friend from South Africa contacted me today to see if I had read the article about a new diagnosis, sluggish cognitive tempo. I hadn’t. My first thought was that she must be referring to some parody of...

08 Apr What Dogs Do for Us

Posted at 23:40h in I Like This, Uncategorized, What's New 2 Comments

Jane Brody is the Personal Health columnist for The New York Times. Her April 8, 2014 column, “My Life as a Dog Owner,” is lovely. She speaks personally of how her life changed when she got a dog and moves from there to share research on the health that dogs...

08 Apr Conceptual Oppression

Posted at 18:15h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 4 Comments

I spent the past weekend in Philadelphia at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. One of the events I participated in was a half-day professional development course. My task was to share aspects of my version of cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) in relation to the issues...

03 Apr Rate Your Emotional Talent

Posted at 05:39h in Polls 0 Comments

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30 Mar Why Physicists Make Up Stories in the Dark

Posted at 15:44h in Creativity, I Like This, Philosophy, What's New 2 Comments

"Before science had the means to explore [the unseen], we had to make do with stories that became enshrined in myth and folklore. Those stories aren’t banished as science advances; they are simply reinvented. Scientists working at the forefront of the invisible will always be confronted with gaps in knowledge,...

30 Mar Snapshots of a Developmental History

Posted at 15:09h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Vygotsky, What's New 0 Comments

If you want to see more photos of Lev Vygotsky, you'll find maybe a dozen on line (you can do a Google search). Since I had a relationship with his daughter Gita, who has spoken personally about her father and his work, I can share some photos of her—from my...

19 Mar Rate Your “Emotional Talent”

Posted at 13:10h in What's New 0 Comments

Vygotsky tells us that “it is possible not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.” How emotionally talented are you? Take the poll. ...

15 Mar Just Released—Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology

Posted at 14:37h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein 2 Comments

Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...

09 Mar Billboard + Humidity = Water

Posted at 20:27h in I Like This 0 Comments

See what happened in when a a university, an ad agency, a serious social-economic-environmental problem, and a billboard come together. Watch the video and and read the article....

09 Mar Who Are We/Who Are We Becoming?

Posted at 02:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments

Earlier this evening I completed a six-day residency period of The International Class of the East Side Institute. It was an intense period of conversation on all manner of psychological, phiosophical, political, cultural and completely mundane matters. The 9 current members of this year's hail from 5 countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands,...