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Author: loisholzman

12 Apr

Posted at 03:22h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Performance Movement, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Training/Classes

April 10, 2009 "It is not only a Vygotskian atmosphere where professionals share different backgrounds, but a zone where you may improve your human skills and to help others to perform a better world." --Ignacio Dalton, educational researcher, Buenos Aires Argentina "The class has been such a wonderful support system, helping...

09 Apr

Posted at 03:07h in Activity Theory, Language, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky

April 7, 2009 I've been making a series of presentations in recent months around New York City and I've thoroughly enjoyed speaking with diverse audiences of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staffs at universities, conferences and human service organizations. The topics of my talks have varied—"Play is the Thing," "Learning in...

15 Feb

Posted at 03:05h in Vygotsky

February 15, 2009 This might be a first — invoking the Zone of Proximal Development to sell a health club! I was doing a "Vygotsky" search on UTube and the first one to come up was an ad for getting fit, not on your own but with others -  Shedfast on...

15 Feb

Posted at 01:22h in Activity Theory, Culture, Politics, Psychology, Vygotsky

February 15, 2009 I am happy to report that a new documentary film, Lev Vygotsky: One Man's Legacy through his Life and Theory, is being released this month. The filmmaker is Valerie Lowe who, in addition to making films, is an adult educator, corporate consultant and staff trainer in British Columbia — and...

07 Feb

Posted at 08:42h in Culture, Performance Movement, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

February 7, 2009 I'm excited about a new course offering of the East Side Institute, where I am privileged to be director. It's entitled, "Conversations with a Black Minority: Postmodern Marxists in Dialogue about a New and Innovative Approach to "Black" Psychology," and it will be led by four powerful African...

05 Feb

Posted at 00:53h in Culture, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

Some Words from Ana Marjanovic-Shane The headquarters of the East Side Institute was crowded with friends and colleagues and their friends and colleagues as we launched my new book, Vygotsky at Work and Play on January 23. We interrupted the chatter of conversation and book signing with a short program. Rafael...

16 Jan

Posted at 04:25h in Psychotherapy

  Richard House and Del Loewenthal have done a great service to mental health professionals and consumers in putting together an intelligent and cogent collection of essays that lay bare the epistemological and ideological underpinnings of CBT and the methodological validity accorded to it. The two British psychologists are  editors of...

31 Oct

Posted at 23:44h in Social Therapeutics

Ishita Sanyel, founder of one of the first and most innovative centers in India for people with mental illness, has begun training colleague in social therapy. Her organization, an NGO in Calcutta, is called Turning Point. Ishital is a clinical psychologist and graduate of the East Side Institute’s 2007-2008 International...