Author: loisholzman

29 Dec

Posted at 17:58h in I Like This, Play

December 29, 2013 Like most of us, I've seen puppies play with all kinds of things and animals and people, but birds???  This is new to me. The way this bird plays is quite something (and its playmate is adorable). Watch on YouTube ...

11 Dec

Posted at 03:44h in Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein

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...

09 Dec

Posted at 21:05h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Theatre, What's New

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...

09 Dec

Posted at 19:45h in Culture, Español/Spanish, Popular Posts, Psychotherapy, Publications, What's New, Wittgenstein

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...