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Psychotherapy

11 Aug

Posted at 01:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy

August 10, 2010 I know hundreds of performers-social change workers (and know of hundreds more). But I'd not heard of Hector Aristizabal until Amazon sent me an email (just for me of course!) recommending his book written with Diane Lefer, entitled,  The Blessing and the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism,...

17 Jul

Posted at 20:21h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Youth Development

July 17, 2010 Participate in discovering/creating responses to this question by attending the sixth Performing the World conference: Performing the World 2010, September 30-October 3, 2010, New York City (hosted by All Stars Project, Inc and East Side Institute for Group and short Term Psychotherapy) “Can Performance Change the World?” Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers,...

16 Sep

Posted at 16:58h in Culture, Language, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics

September 16, 2009 In a few weeks, I’ll begin working (and playing) with a new International Class—grass roots community activists and scholars who will gather at the East Side Institute for their first residency. Coming from different places and professions, they share a desire to change the world—and an eagerness to...

19 Aug

Posted at 20:08h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Reviews, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky

August 19, 2009 Popular books, especially if they relate to current events, get reviewed  as soon as they are published—and sometimes before. Not so academic books. Alas, it's typically a year before a review appears in print. So I was pleasantly surprised today to find an email in my inbox from...

09 Apr

Posted at 03:07h in Activity Theory, Language, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky

April 7, 2009 I've been making a series of presentations in recent months around New York City and I've thoroughly enjoyed speaking with diverse audiences of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staffs at universities, conferences and human service organizations. The topics of my talks have varied—"Play is the Thing," "Learning in...

07 Feb

Posted at 08:42h in Culture, Performance Movement, Politics, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

February 7, 2009 I'm excited about a new course offering of the East Side Institute, where I am privileged to be director. It's entitled, "Conversations with a Black Minority: Postmodern Marxists in Dialogue about a New and Innovative Approach to "Black" Psychology," and it will be led by four powerful African...

05 Feb

Posted at 00:53h in Culture, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Youth Development

Some Words from Ana Marjanovic-Shane The headquarters of the East Side Institute was crowded with friends and colleagues and their friends and colleagues as we launched my new book, Vygotsky at Work and Play on January 23. We interrupted the chatter of conversation and book signing with a short program. Rafael...

16 Jan

Posted at 04:25h in Psychotherapy

  Richard House and Del Loewenthal have done a great service to mental health professionals and consumers in putting together an intelligent and cogent collection of essays that lay bare the epistemological and ideological underpinnings of CBT and the methodological validity accorded to it. The two British psychologists are  editors of...