09 Sep Culture Interrupted
I’m excited to be leading a Revolutionary Conversation this November with Alvaader Frazier—community organizer, human rights attorney, poet and friend. Culture Interrupted...
Culture
08 Sep Psychology, Theatre, Fact and Value—Newman’s Manifesto
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I'm immersed this week in final preparations for the 9th Performing the World event, PTW '16: Can We Perform Our Way to Power? (September 23-25) and in working on the science chapter for my online book The Overweight Brain. One thing led to another, as they always do. I was beginning to...
01 Sep People, Power and Performance
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The Performing the World 2016 newsletters can't help but inspire you. Each newsletter features some of the creative performance activists presenting September 23-25 at this important gathering. Check back for more newsletters over the next two weeks. ...
11 Aug The Problem with Experts
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"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
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...
23 Jul Social Therapeutics and the Self
I’m at the beginning of writing a chapter for a book a colleague of mine is putting together. As often happens with me early in the writing process, I’ve been surfing around my library of books and PDFs stored on my computer, doing some Amazon and Google Scholar searches to...
16 Jul What is PTW?
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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
“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
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!
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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...