Thanks to Saybrook University's The New Existentialists, for publishing my essay, "Emotional Distress and Diagnosis: Word on the Street." I'm really happy to reach its readers. Check out the site for many thoughtful essays....
Practicing Method: Social Therapy as Practical–Critical Psychology Lois Holzman Article first published online: 17 DEC 2014 Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Keywords: practical–critical;methodology;dialectics;tool-and-result;practice of method;Marx;Vygotsky;Wittgenstein;social therapy ABSTRACT What Marx referred to as “practical–critical, revolutionary practice” has been shaped into a human development practice of method, that is, social therapeutics, and its psychotherapy, social therapy....
Thanks to my dear friend and colleague Professor Yuji Moro of Tsukuba University , my 2009 book Vygotsky at Work and Play is being published in Japan. Today Professor Moro posted the following on Facebook: "This is a cover of Japanese version of Lois Holzman's Vygotsky at Work and Play. It will...
Congratulations to Thomas Teo on the release of the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for which he served as editor. The massive (2400 pages) anthology published by Springer Reference is “the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view.” Teo,...
I'm excited to share a new project of mine. I'm series editor for a new collection of books for Palgrave Macmillan on the topic of Play, Performance, Learning and Development. Over the next three years (and maybe beyond) researchers and practitioners will have a multi-disciplinary "home" to publish their work...
[caption id="attachment_2074" align="aligncenter" width="478"] New Book and Coffee Cup[/caption] I was so pleased to see this new book in the mail yesterday that I took a photo of it. Performance Studies in Motion originated in a 2010 conference at the University of Haifa: RS and PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies....
The Unseen Benefits of the Arts in Schools, An Op Ed by Univrsity of Georgia professor Peter Smagornisky. I'm glad to say I've known Peter for many years through our work together in AERA (American Educational Research Association). Peter's co-author is Michelle Thorne. I like how they help us see a...
Published version of a Keynote Talk I gave at the 2012 Japanese Qualitative Research Conference—The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky...
December 27, 2013 Last week I was invited to be profiled in The Psychologist, the monthly publication of the British Psychological Society. Their “One on One” section features informal, off-the-cuff interviews with psychologists, designed to show the range and diversity of work and opinions. The editor sent me a list of...
December 10, 2013 My article, "Critical psychology, philosophy and social therapy," appears in the current issue of the journal, Human Studies, A Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Volume 6, Number 24, 2013). According to the rules of academic publishers, I can share the accepted draft of the article but...