Culture

11 Aug The Problem with Experts

Posted at 01:42h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play, What's New 1 Comment

"Collecting data on human learning based on children’s behavior in school is like collecting data on killer whales based on their behavior at Sea World." From the essay, A Thousand Rivers" by Carol Black. It's a wide-ranging indictment of educational and psychological research, and a passionate plea to see how children in...

06 Aug Psychological Ethics

Posted at 01:21h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

The Ethics of Diagnosis and Alternatives to It—An Invitation for Inquiry This week the American Psychological Association holds its annual convention in Denver. I had been planning to attend and present as part of a symposium, “The Future of Diagnosis: Ethics, Social Justice, and Alternative Paradigms.” The topic I planned to...

16 Jul What is PTW?

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 0 Comments

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...

29 May The Asperger’s Advantage

Posted at 02:02h in Culture, DSM-5, I Like This, Look and Listen, Psychology, What's New 5 Comments

“Disorder” is an inappropriate term to attach as a fundamental part of the name of a neurological condition. Whether it’s order or disorder is a matter of how it works in relation to other people and settings. Unless this basic idea becomes better understood, too many people will go...

24 May Science, Objectivity and Our Overweight Brains

Posted at 19:02h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 3 Comments

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...

19 Apr Become a Fulani Fellow!

Posted at 16:30h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, What's New 0 Comments

The All Stars Project is seeking diverse fellowship candidates with a relationship to, and an affinity for poor communities of color. What does it mean to be a Fulani Fellow? First and foremost, it means training and working alongside independent activist and grassroots leader Dr. Fulani and her high-performing and diverse...

20 Jan What Makes a Difference for People of “Difference”

Posted at 20:21h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Language, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy, Vygotsky 0 Comments

It’s time to change how we think about and relate to people whose makeup is or appears to be different from the norm. We now think of what’s different—let’s say a biological or neurological difference—as the main source of disability and difficulty, and we focus help and treatment on this....

20 Jan Building Bridges across the Rio Grande

Posted at 02:49h in Community Organizing, Culture, I Like This, Play 0 Comments

Don't miss the newsletter of this great organizization developing projects bringing together people from the the El Paso-Cuidad Juarez US-Mexico cities....

14 Jan Interviewing Ananta Giri

Posted at 18:08h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Philosophy 0 Comments

On January 25, 2016 I’ll be interviewing Ananta Kumar Giri, associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Tamil Nadu, India, as part of the Side Institute’s “Making a Conceptual Revolution” series. Professor Giri is a fascinating person whose interests include social movements and cultural change, creativity and...