Psychology

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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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/...

13 Nov The Normal? Brain

Posted at 04:08h in Creativity, Human Development, Look and Listen, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments

On November 9 I had the pleasure of being featured at the Normal? Brain Festival, originating in Folkestone UK (where it has taken place since 2015 in person over four days). This year the festival went virtual and runs through April 2020. The purpose is to bring science and art together...

05 Jan A Look Back at Ecological Validity

Posted at 01:31h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 0 Comments

While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it! (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological...

29 Dec The End of Knowing as Critical Praxis (Practical-Critical Activity)

Posted at 23:25h in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Culture, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

When I have an academic presentation to make or an article to write on social therapeutic methodology, it's usually an opportunity to play around with conceptions I've spoken and written about many times before. I like the challenge of creating new frames ("What do I want to say to this...

22 Mar Japanese Colleagues: Givers in a World Culture of Getting

Posted at 01:45h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapeutics 0 Comments

I spent last week with 16 Japanese professors and graduate students who traveled to NYC for an immersion in social therapeutics, the psychology of becoming, and a first-hand experience with how these "tools-and-results" help people grow by performing our sociality and building community. We had a wonderful time together. By...

19 Dec Stop Worrying About What You Don’t Know

Posted at 03:00h in Creativity, Human Development, Overweight Brain, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications 1 Comment

Here's me on The Overweight Brain ...

05 Jul Old Friends and New

Posted at 01:34h in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments

I'm super excited about the upcoming (in September) Performing the World conference and so privileged to be chairing it again! I'm sharing the first of many newsletters because these people deserve to be known! Newsletter #1 July 3, 2018 Old Friends and New The 10th Performing the World 2018 (PTW) will take place in...

30 May The Overweight Brain — Available in June!

Posted at 16:54h in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 2 Comments

The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...

15 May

Posted at 19:35h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes 0 Comments

With deepening social and political crises worldwide, many who want to make a difference find that they need more. They search for new tools, methods, conceptions and approaches to move forward. Since 2004, the Institute’s flagship program, The International Class, has attracted over 100 passionate and creative scholars, researchers, clinicians and...