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13 Sep The Porous Frontier between Therapy and Performance

Posted at 21:07h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Theatre, Youth Development 0 Comments

September 13, 2012 It's the last few weeks leading up to the 7th Performing the World gathering taking place October 4-7 at the All Stars Project headquarters on 42 St in NYC. Amidst all the details and fine tuning of schedules and staffing, there's the bigger picture—the historicity of the activity,...

20 Jun Bratke, Diamond, Rojzman and Schechner at Performing the World 2012

Posted at 01:23h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 2 Comments

June 19, 2012 I’ve been immersed in PTW—that’s Performing the World, an international festival/conference/happening I launched eleven years ago. This October, we’re hosting the 7th PTW, “Can Performance Change Save the World?” (recasting the 2010 PTW theme, “Can Performance Change the World?” because of the increasing intensity of the challenges facing...

15 May Did the DSM-5 Task Force Really Back Down?

Posted at 12:53h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, DSM-5, Health Care, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 0 Comments

May 15, 2012 Check out my guest column in Psychology Today's Rethinking Psychology (Eric Maisel's column) "Cosmetic Changes to the DSM-V (Did the DSM-5 Task Force Really Back Down?)" Recently the DSM-5 Task Force of psychiatrists dropped two diagnoses from its new manual—“attenuated psychosis syndrome” (proposed to identify people at risk of developing psychosis),...

24 Apr Questioning Normal at TEDMED

Posted at 21:17h in Creativity, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Popular Posts, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 3 Comments

April 24, 2012 I survived— and thrived at—TEDMED at the beautiful Kennedy Center in Washington, DC two weeks ago. Survived being with 1500 people I didn’t know and who didn’t come with an interest in mental health, diagnosis or the politics of psychology and psychiatry. Thrived on hearing 70 or more...

07 Apr Deciding What’s Normal at TEDMED

Posted at 16:45h in Creativity, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

April 7, 2012 Deciding What's Normal. What a great topic for me to lobby folks around at the TEDMED conference this coming week in Washington, D.C. The topic and I are 1 of 50 "Great Challenges" in health and medicine that will be represented at the conference, along with the usual...

22 Mar Can You Grieve and Not Be Labeled with a Mental Disorder?

Posted at 21:38h in DSM-5, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 3 Comments

March 22, 2012 Today I read Joanne Cacciatore’s blog. She’s the founder of the MISS Foundation, an international nonprofit organization with 75 chapters around the world aiding parents whose children have died or are dying at any age and from any cause. (She’s also a professor and researcher at Arizona State...

14 Mar APA DSM-5 Task Force Discloses and Exposes

Posted at 00:55h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Health Care, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

March 13, 2012 "After the 1994 release of DSM-4, the APA instituted a policy requiring expert advisors to disclose drug industry ties. But the move toward transparency did little to cut down on conflicts, with nearly 70 percent of DSM-5 task force members reporting financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies—up from 57...

23 Feb Forget the DSM: Social Therapy as Clinical Practice

Posted at 18:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Critical psychiatry, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

February 23, 2012 I don't usually promote activities here but now is an exception. Recent posts on the DSM-5 and all that it reveals about the ways our culture relates to human emotionality have drawn new readers (much thanks to everyone who’s reposting!). I've been introduced to many others who are...

18 Jan Still More on DSM-5

Posted at 03:12h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

January 17, 2012 Here’s some other voices speaking about the DSM-5. First, Dr. Anthony Rao. Tony is a pediatric psychologist, founder of Behavioral Solutions in Lexington MA, and author of The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys. I met Tony in 2010 when I interviewed him...

04 Jan The Real Problem with the DSM-5

Posted at 19:09h in DSM-5, Health Care, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy 9 Comments

January 4, 2012 I’ve been following the controversy over the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM-5. Compiled and published by the American Psychiatric Association, the DSM is the diagnostic bible for mental health professionals the world over—and a cash cow for the...