Author: loisholzman

07 Feb More Dilemmas! More Letters!

Posted at 15:57h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Greetings All, As I hope you know, I gathered many of the letters and responses that appeared in this column into a book, A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. (My editor at Routledge urged that title, although I would have gone with something more provocative.) If you...

05 Feb Developmental Dilemmas

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Chris Hoff's The Radical Therapist podcast contains a treasure trove of humanity and innovation in over 100 interviews. I had the pleasure of doing my second podcast with Chris last week. Give a listen! https://chrishoffmft.podbean.com/e/the-radical-therapist-142-%e2%80%93-a-developmentalist-s-guide-to-better-mental-health-w-lois-holzman/...

27 Aug Words to Ponder #47

Posted at 21:31h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

I think about how exhausting the indicative becomes - the constant demand to perform progress, to show we're winning, to prove harm is decreasing. Bayo Akomolafe...

26 Aug Excavating the Myth of Empathy

Posted at 21:55h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

I’ve been pondering the popularity of empathy for quite a while now, and I’ve been meaning to write something telling you why I find it so distasteful. As a way to ease into that create space, I share a bit of conversation “A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in...

18 Aug How we can all Learn at any Age through Play

Posted at 22:49h in Interviews 0 Comments

What a wonderful wide-ranging conversation I had with Jon Wilson on his podcast-- Jung and the World. Listen here....

15 Aug Rhizomic Revolution

Posted at 03:05h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Carrie Lobman, the East Side Institute’s Leader of Education and Research and my close colleague and friend, gave the keynote address at the Cultivating Ensembles annual gathering last week. I love the title of her talk—“Boxes, Dualisms and Rhizomes”—and I loved the talk even more! Carrie urged that we go...

16 Jul A New Way to Engage Dilemmas

Posted at 16:41h in Creativity, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

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25 Feb Words to Ponder #46

Posted at 02:53h in Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

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02 Feb Imagination and Teardrops

Posted at 20:02h in Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

I just learned about Gianni Rodari, a children's writer and Communist almost unknown in the US. I love this description from a New York Times article about him: To Rodari, imagination was always revolutionary, because he thought that, when readers picture different worlds, they stop taking existing conditions for granted and...

06 Jan WE’RE BECOMING A BOOK!

Posted at 21:55h in Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

We are becoming a book! Yes! A selection of your letters and my responses to them are the centerpiece of the upcoming A Developmentalist’s Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. I’ve grouped them thematically by topics such as Family Life, On the Job, What a World!, and It’s...