Lois Holzman |

02 Jan Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy

Posted at 22:16h in Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

January 2, 2011 I had a busy December, highlighted by completing a draft article that will appear in a Chinese language journal and traveling to Serbia (whichI will write about in another post). The article, "Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy," will appear in the Register of Social Critical Theories, which comes out...

16 Aug Dan Friedman’s Theatre for Nothing

Posted at 19:37h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

August 16, 2010 My good friend Dan Friedman has written a paper I highly recommend. Entitled “Theatre for Nothing,” the paper delineates how theatre is being instrumentalized, especially in relation to social change efforts. Dan urges that politically oriented theatre activists recognize the stifling effect this is having on the potential...

02 Jun Philosophy, Pathology and the Oil Spill

Posted at 16:45h in Culture, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

June 2, 2010 "It’s a profound and systemic problem of our entire culture. We live in a broad international culture where people can’t accept that there is no answer. They have to have an answer for everything." Fred Newman and Jackie Salit have a conversation about the BP oil spill, how it's...

13 Mar Politics and the DSM

Posted at 19:56h in Culture, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 1 Comment

March 13, 2010 One of my weekly treats is the arrival in my inbox of Talk Talk, excerpts from a dialogue Fred Newman and Jackie Salit have after watching the political talk shows on TV. Newman, co-founder with me of the Institute, is many other things – among them a...