Culture

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...

21 Nov

Posted at 22:44h in Creativity, Culture, Psychology of Becoming

November 21, 2013 Dear Readers, I'll be transferring this site to its newly designed, easier to navigate, and more intereactive format over this weekend. It's been nearly two months in the making and, while I'm pretty happy with it, what matters is if you are! The impetus for the redesign was my decision...

25 Oct

Posted at 13:49h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

October 26, 2013 If you think that creativity, play and imagination are vital to personal and social transformation, then I have some folks you need to meet—Steve Dahlberg and Mary Alice Long. Steve is director of the Connecticut-based International Centre for Creativity and Imagination,  which applies creativity to improve the well-being of individuals, organizations...

20 Sep

Posted at 18:26h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Vygotsky

September 20, 2013 Although Vygotsky’s ideas are applied to dozens of disciplines/practices, psychotherapy is not among them. With few exceptions, contemporary Vygotskians have stayed clear of the sub- ject; and most psychotherapy researchers and clinical practitioners have little familiarity with Vygotsky—despite Vygotsky’s challenge to psychology’s isolation of the intellectual from the...

23 Aug

Posted at 21:57h in Activity Theory, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky

August 23, 2013 I’ve spent much of today gathering and reading bits of articles on imagination, play and creativity. Among them is a piece by Lev Vygotsky entitled, “Imagination and Creativity in Childhood”(translated into English from the Russian and published in 2004 in the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology)....

01 Aug

Posted at 21:16h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming

August 1, 2013 About 3-4 months ago I started writing another blog on Psychology Today. I call it The Conceptual Revolution (The Creative Side of Culture Change). Usually I write different posts than what I write here. But today's an exception. Here's "How to Spread "Slow Ideas"—Talk to People." “Why do some...

25 Jul

Posted at 00:15h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky

  July 24 2013 Fred Newman's and my 1993 book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist, is now a classic! It's been published by Psychology Press, and my copy arrived today in the mail. It felt good in my hands, and not just because it's a better size and paper quality than the original....

23 Jul

Posted at 15:31h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre

July 23, 2013 Last month I spent my Wednesday evenings in conversation on the topic of “Performance Activism.” I was co-leading a short course in the East Side Institute’s Revolutionary Conversation series. My partner was Dan Friedman, who is a theatre historian, artistic director of the Castillo Theatre and, with me,...

11 Jul

Posted at 00:34h in Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming

July 10, 2013 When I last posted on May 29, I had just returned from Denmark where I co-taught a three-day course, ”Educational Psychology, Late-modernity and Social Therapeutics,” for PhD students in psychology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark’s second largest city). Two days later, I left for Singapore where I...

29 May

Posted at 22:07h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Wittgenstein

May 29, 2013 To New York Times columnist and cultural and political commentator David Brooks, psychiatrists are not heroes of science but “heroes of uncertainty.” Such is the title of his May 27, 2013 Op-Ed piece.  Brooks takes the compilers of the DSM-5 and contemporary psychiatry to task for presenting their field...