A Psychology of Becoming
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A Psychology of Becoming

Here's where I share what I'm thinking about. I would love your comments.

27 Oct

Posted at 18:51h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

I'm happy to report that the expanded second edition of my book, Vygotsky at Work and Play is just three weeks away from publication (11/17/16). To give you a preview, here's an excerpt from my Introduction to the second edition. In his thoughtful and very generous Foreword to the first edition...

27 Oct

Posted at 15:58h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Español/Spanish, Play, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, Theatre

Dan Friedman (artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and associate dean of UX) and I were in Bogota Colombia last week at the invitation of former mayor Antanas Mockus and his organization Corpovisionarois. We were both keynote speakers at their International Conference on Citizenship Culture. This years theme was "Another...

27 Oct

Posted at 02:36h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy

This summer I drafted an article for a special issue on diagnostic alternatives of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Having learned that it will be at least a year before publication (which is ridiculous), I am making it available here. Feedback welcome! Diagnosis: A Thousand Ordinary People Speak Out Lois Holzman and Elisabeth...

10 Oct

Posted at 18:50h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Education, Learning Environments, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements

I had a wonderful time this past weekend at the 2016 North Carolina Honors Association Conference in Greensboro North Carolina. It was a privilege to be the keynote speaker at the opening banquet, especially since the conference theme was "Innovations in Pedagogy, Research, and Learning: Using Play, Performance and Improvisation."...

16 Jul

Posted at 20:52h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development

Performing the World (PTW) is a cross-disciplinary gathering of practitioners and scholars from every continent. Participants include performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, community organizers and activists, and all others for whom performance, play and the creative/expressive arts offer a new...

14 Jul

Posted at 21:32h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, What's New

  I recently completed a draft paper summarizing and discussing the survey results for a special issue of a journal dedicated to the growing movement to develop alternatives to the current diagnostic system in psychiatry and clinical psychology. In my latest blog post appearing on Mad in America, I give a...

24 May

Posted at 19:02h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, What's New

Here's a sneak peek at the next chapter of The Overweight Brain. I'm giving it the working title — "The Cult(ure) of Science" Chapter 7. The Cult(ure) of Science My beef with science isn't that it’s a scam. Sciences like chemistry, anatomy, biology and physics—unlike psychology—don’t purposely distort what they’re studying to make it...