Published version of a Keynote Talk I gave at the 2012 Japanese Qualitative Research Conference—The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky...
From the back cover of the new, Classic Text edition of Fred Newman's and my Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist...
January 2, 2014 Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method begins January 27. I love leading this five month online course with my talented playful colleagues, Chris Helm and Carrie Lobman. It's our 6th year of offering the course and each international grouping of eclectic and eager participants help me grow!...
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 ...
December 27, 2013 I love "Sing-Off" the a cappella competition show on NBC...
December 27, 2013 Last week I was invited to be profiled in The Psychologist, the monthly publication of the British Psychological Society. Their “One on One” section features informal, off-the-cuff interviews with psychologists, designed to show the range and diversity of work and opinions. The editor sent me a list of...
December 20, 2013 Ever since I heard long ago that “Eskimos have 100 words for snow” I’ve been fascinated by how we see, and the ways that our culture and language inter-relate with our perceptions. Never mind that the “words for snow” claim has been questioned and debated for more than...
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...