Human Development

12 Feb Help Us Improve the People We Love

Posted at 02:34h in Creativity, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Dear Developmentalist, My friend Annette and I really enjoy talking together. When we meet up, both of us are eager to share about what is going on in our lives, but we also enjoy listening and learning from the other person. Whenever one of us shares something, the other is quick...

07 Feb More Dilemmas! More Letters!

Posted at 15:57h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Play, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist 0 Comments

Greetings All, As I hope you know, I gathered many of the letters and responses that appeared in this column into a book, A Developmentalist's Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. (My editor at Routledge urged that title, although I would have gone with something more provocative.) If you...

16 Jul A New Way to Engage Dilemmas

Posted at 16:41h in Creativity, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

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06 Jan WE’RE BECOMING A BOOK!

Posted at 21:55h in Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

We are becoming a book! Yes! A selection of your letters and my responses to them are the centerpiece of the upcoming A Developmentalist’s Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas. I’ve grouped them thematically by topics such as Family Life, On the Job, What a World!, and It’s...

12 May In Conversation with Bayo Akolomafe

Posted at 03:13h in Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Language, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

During the second half of 2022, Bayo Akomolafe and I had a series of recorded Zoom conversations, with my Institute colleague Janet Wootten spurring us on, Bayo and I both wanted to make these conversations public. and you can find slightly edited transcripts of them here, titled A Meandering Search for Method: Becoming Human in a...

13 Jan Humor and Therapy—A Conversation with The Developmentalist

Posted at 15:56h in Creativity, Human Development, Interviews, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

Loved this interview with Katy Bee and Jim-Bob, hosts of the Laugh Box (podcast of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor). I didn't expect to, but I talked about how I'm developing! ...

20 Dec Something Other Than Psychology

Posted at 20:04h in Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Interviews, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 1 Comment

I was interviewed last week by Chris Hoof for his The Radical Therapist podcast. Thanks, Chris, for being a great interviewer! Please have a listen! https://chrishoffmft.podbean.com/e/the-radical-therapist-108–-something-other-than-psychology-w-dr-lois-holzman/...

22 Sep Dear Developmentalist…Letters from the Doghouse

Posted at 00:52h in Culture, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, The Developmentalist 1 Comment

I got a letter from a non-human! A dog! My dog, Dino! Katy Bee, Dino and I presented at the Association of AppliedTherapeutic Humor Roundup on September 19. We had fun and I hope you enjoy it. Listen here...

08 Aug Everyone has Something to Teach. Everyone has Something to Learn.

Posted at 17:13h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes 0 Comments

Let's Learn! is is a year-old educational project that doesn't just pay lip service to the idea of life-long learning. Or life--long teaching also, for that matter. It practices it. A project of Lloyd International Honors College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in collaboration with the East Side Institute,...