December 16, 2013 Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt—The World Behind a Simple Shirt, in Five Chapters is educative, entertaining—and, most of all—sobering. To me, it's what's wonderful and not so wonderful about what human beings create and are capable of....
December 10, 2013 My article, "Critical psychology, philosophy and social therapy," appears in the current issue of the journal, Human Studies, A Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Volume 6, Number 24, 2013). According to the rules of academic publishers, I can share the accepted draft of the article but...
December 9, 2013 The phrase, the overweight brain, comes from Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller (1929-2005), the East German dramatist. Hamletmachine is a postmodern distillation and reconfiguration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the play, Müller's Hamlet embodies the dead end of Western intellectual history—describing himself, he says, “Like a hunchback I drag my overweight brain.” Fred Newman loved Müller’s...
December 1, 2013 Los Más Grandes Mitos Acerca de las Emociones & Como Debilitarlos ¿Donde viven las emociones? La respuesta te puede sorprender. (translated by Sandra Paola Lopez: "The Biggest Myths about Emotions and How to Weaken Their Grip") Con toda esta cháchara acerca de las emociones y el cerebro, usted podrá pensar que...
Bienvenido a la sección en español de nuestro sitio web. Aquí encontrará contenido actualizado para aquellos que prefieren leer en español. ...
In October and November, I led two Vygotsky seminars, one in person in NYC and the other online. About 40 people participated, many of them familiar with Newman and Holzman’s Vygotsky (what we call “our” Vygotsky in our writings) as practitioners in NYC, in other areas of the US and in many other...
Welcome to “I Like This”, an area of the site which is exactly what it sounds like; a collection of materials that Lois likes and wishes to share with you. Enjoy!...
To hear the interview, visit the link: http://www.eastsideinstitute.org/audio_files/LHolzman%20Ricardo%20Lana.WAV...
November 21, 2013 Dear Readers, I'll be transferring this site to its newly designed, easier to navigate, and more intereactive format over this weekend. It's been nearly two months in the making and, while I'm pretty happy with it, what matters is if you are! The impetus for the redesign was my decision...
October 26, 2013 If you think that creativity, play and imagination are vital to personal and social transformation, then I have some folks you need to meet—Steve Dahlberg and Mary Alice Long. Steve is director of the Connecticut-based International Centre for Creativity and Imagination, which applies creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations...
