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Psychology of Becoming

16 Oct Why I Love Castillo

Posted at 21:00h in Culture, I Like This, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre, housed in the NYC headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd St, is a special place. It's my favorite theatre. In my inbox today was an email from Castillo's artistic director Dan Friedman. It personally and eloquently gives expression to Castillo's values and aesthetics.—and I share...

10 Oct What is the Practice of Method?

Posted at 16:11h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Youth Development 0 Comments

I'm looking for people interested in exploring the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming. Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method: An Advanced Online Course with Lois Holzman and Faculty February — May 2016 Social therapeutics is a “practice of method” for human and community development. What Lois Holzman and Fred...

27 Sep Can We Perform Our Way To Power?

Posted at 16:00h in Community Organizing, Events, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, What's New 2 Comments

Can We Perform Our Way to Power? The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which it spreads becomes more conflicted....

29 Aug Beyond the DSM

Posted at 14:48h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Speaking Engagements 2 Comments

“What we need is more facilities where people can walk in and say 'Hey, I'm feeling really down today. Can I just be here for a while and see what could be a contribution to me and make me feel better?' I think this is true for most people but...

21 Aug What Do 1984, Brave New World and the DSM-5 Have in Common?

Posted at 21:46h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming 3 Comments

Thanks to APA symposium (“Beyond the DSM: Current Trends in Devising New Diagnostic Alternatives”) discussant Sarah Kamens for bringing to our attention a chilling essay reviewing the DSM-5. Author Sam Kriss “reviews” the book as if it were a dystopian novel like 1984 and Brave New World. The essay appeared...

16 Aug The Seduction of Bad Ideas

Posted at 20:17h in DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 1 Comment

I've been rereading my Psychology Today columns since I began writing them over two years ago. It's something I'm doing while I'm finishing up writing a chapter on psychology for my online book, The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better...

09 Jul The Diagnostic Debate

Posted at 16:03h in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Speaking Engagements 0 Comments

I haven’t attended the American Psychological Association convention in about ten years. But I couldn’t turn down an invitation to speak on a symposium on alternatives to diagnosis. And so, I’ll be traveling to Toronto in a few weeks for this year’s convention. The session, organized by SUNY New Paltz psychology...

04 Jul The Message Behind Nobel Prize Winning Biologist Tim Hunt’s Sexist Rant—Science is Above the Law

Posted at 15:38h in Look and Listen, Politics, Psychology of Becoming 0 Comments

It's been about a month since Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt's comments on "girls" in science, and the furor hasn't stopped yet. But along with his sexism is dangerous scientism—“Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in...

15 Jun Growing the World

Posted at 23:49h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Human Development, Learning Environments, Psychology of Becoming, Training/Classes, What's New 2 Comments

Each June, I spend 2 weeks or so with an international group of innovators/activists/scholars/community organizers. They are the Institute's International Class, in NYC for the third and final residency of their 10 month program. It's a unique kind of time together—intensely active, intellectually and emotionally challenging and growthful for all, and...

03 Jun What’s the Point of Being Critical?

Posted at 18:57h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Social Therapy, What's New 2 Comments

I just got word that a new book to which I contributed is hot off the presses. It’s titled Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Editor Del Loewenthal, Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton in the UK, has done an impressive job of bringing...