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Social Therapy

28 Aug

Posted at 16:23h in Community Organizing, Culture, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy

  Just had to share this wonderful piece by social therapeutic practitioners Jennifer Bullock and Marian Rich. The World Needs Social Therapy!   Thank you David Brooks for your recent thoughtful commentary titled Hey America, Grow Up. We appreciate your invitation to build a new culture that supports maturity, community, empowerment and well-being....

18 Jul

Posted at 20:37h in Culture, Education, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Youth Development

Desire Wandan was a 16-year-old high school student in 2005. His school, Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn NY, is located in a mostly poor Caribbean immigrant neighborhood of Flatbush. Barbara Silverman was the school social worker at Erasmus. An experienced social therapist with a background that included working with teens,...

04 Apr

Posted at 17:27h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy

Continuing the theme of my last post on how critique and action and practice are and can be related, I share the introduction to the 2010 re-issue of Fred Newman's book Let's Develop! A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth. Newman's social therapy is one of the ways psychology is being...

17 Jun

Posted at 17:29h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements

On Friday evening, June 9 I had the privilege and pleasure of creating conversation with prize-winning journalist and prominent psychiatry critic Robert Whitaker. Our topic was “Mad in America: Drugs, Diagnosis and Development” (an event sponsored by the East Side Institute). Aided by invitingly probing questions from moderator Janet Wootten...

12 Mar

Posted at 01:49h in Creativity, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Play, Social Therapy, Theatre, Vygotsky

I'm looking forward to celebrating the launch of my Palgrave Macmillan book series, Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development tomorrow afternoon, March 12.  Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance, edited by Peter Smagorinsky, is not only the first in the series,...

14 Feb

Posted at 17:05h in Activity Theory, I Like This, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Social Therapy, Words to Ponder

Groups. Individuals. Decisions. Descriptions. Science. Measurement. Therapy. Fred Newman brings them all together in "Undecidable Emotions (What is Social Therapy? And How is it Revolutionary?)". Here's an excerpt from the article published in 2003 in The Journal of Constructivist Psychology (Volume 16, pp. 215-232). You can read the article in...

05 Jan

Posted at 02:20h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Play, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Theatre, What's New

I'm proud to be series editor! This series showcases research, theory and practice linking play and performance to learning and development across the life span. Bringing the concerns of play theorists and performance practitioners together with those of educational and developmental psychologists and counsellors coincides with the increasing professional and public...