Philosophy

10 Apr Avoiding the Social in Social Anxiety

Posted at 02:03h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Popular Posts, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 14 Comments

April 9, 2013 Joseph LeDoux’s opinion piece in The New York Times, “For the Anxious, Avoidance Can Have an Upside,” is an interesting essay that—like so many reports of neuroscience research in the mass media—miseducates the public. Here’s the formula, as I see it. Take a phenomenon of human social life—in this...

26 Feb If Creations are not a Possession

Posted at 02:49h in Creativity, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

February 25, 2013 Last month I wrote and turned in to the publisher the Introduction to the Classic Edition for Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist, which Fred Newman and I wrote twenty years ago. I'm happy that the book is in producction and will be released in the early fall of this year....

07 Feb Danger: Psychiatrists as Moralists

Posted at 19:02h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 20 Comments

February 7, 2013 I just read an Opinionator piece in The New York Times on “Depression and the Limits of Psychiatry.” The author is Gary Gutting, is a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He tells us he’s been teaching a graduate seminar on Michel Foucault’s work and proceeds...

26 Jan Revisitng Vygotsky, A Revolutionary Scientist

Posted at 19:34h in Activity Theory, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky 0 Comments

January 26, 2013 During January I’ve been writing a new introduction to Fred Newman’s and my 1993 book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist for the new “Classic Edition” Routledge’s Psychology Press will be releasing later in 2013. Part of my process has been doing a lot of searches, mostly on Google Scholar...

15 Aug Marxism, Psychology, Activism and Academia

Posted at 02:46h in Critical psychiatry, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 4 Comments

[caption id="attachment_1319" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Opening Plenary Ceremony[/caption] August 14, 2012 The Second International Conference on Marxism and Psychology last week in Morelia Mexico was packed—about 700 participants, a good half of them Mexican university students and activists. It was challenging and fascinating to be part of the gathering of academics and activists,...

06 Aug Musings on the Human Condition—Performing the World

Posted at 21:19h in Human Development, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming 1 Comment

August 6, 2012 How many times have you thought of Burundi in the past month or even the past year? I confess I had not thought about it at all until last week when I received three applications for the East Side Institute’s International Class from citizens of that African country...

31 May Baseball and Becoming

Posted at 15:11h in Community Organizing, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Theatre, Youth Development 1 Comment

May 31,2012 For the past three Tuesday evenings, I’ve been leading “Making a Conceptual Revolution: The Practical-Critical Philosophy of Fred Newman”—an offering in the Institute’s Revolutionary Conversations series. It’s been delightful spending time with 30+ people from varied walks of life and varied levels of familiarity with Newman and his work...

29 May The Sociology and Politics of Diagnosis

Posted at 17:48h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

May 29, 2012 For much of this year, I’ve been writing about the need for more inclusive and public dialogue not only on the DSM-5 but the broader issue of the diagnostic way of life and alternatives to it. On Friday, June 8, I’ll be part of such a dialogue, as the...

10 May Webinar on Social Therapy—A Welcome Break from the DSM-5

Posted at 00:45h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

May 9, 2012 The Institute jumped into the free webinar field at the beginning of this year. It's much simpler than I would have thought! We give people access to an audio or video. After listening/viewing, they can join an hour-long live chat, email questions and comments, or do nothing. I’ve led the...

04 May Therapy Today Weighs in on DSM-5

Posted at 18:40h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 2 Comments

May 4, 2012 There’s an extensive and excellent discussion of the DSM-5 controversy on Therapy Today.net , an online publication of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. The article—“Diagnostic Disarray” by Catherine Jackson, Therapy Today’s Deputy Editor, which appeared in April—is unique compared to the dozens of news items, essays...