01 Oct Performing the World 2014 Progam
400 people from over 30 countries will perform "How Shall We Become?" next week at Performing the World 2014 (PTW'14), October 10-12 in New York City. The program is on the PTW website....
Author: loisholzman
01 Oct The Knowing Academic
“Why Academics Stink at Writing,” an essay by Harvard professor Steven Pinker in the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 26, 2014). I found this essay both extremely helpful and extremely annoying. Pinker’s examples are terrific. His explanations for why academics write so badly are really fun to read, kind of like...
17 Sep People Speak Out About Diagnosis
I posted a Psychology Today A Conceptual Revolution column yesterday, “Do You Need a Diagnosis to Get Some Help?” There I shared an overview of what happened when a team of volunteers from the East Side Institute and Social Therapy Group conducted a survey on diagnosis at Harlem Week, a...
08 Sep Exploring Play. Online. Free.
Professor Jackie Marsh of the University of Sheffield is offering a seven week online course entitled, Exploring Play: The Importance of Play in Everyday Life, beginning September 29. It sounds like fun. And it's free! ...
29 Aug “Graduating Police Officers Join Community Members at Operation Conversation”
Coverage in the New York Amsterdam News (August 28, 2014) of Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids, the amazing project of the All Stars Project, started by my dear friend and colleague Lenora Fulani. ...
28 Aug A Diagnostic Alternative You Might Not Have Thought Possible
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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?
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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
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“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
"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!
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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...