16 Jan A Report on Community Outreach: Lay Opinions on Emotional Distress and Diagnosis
Continuing the conversation on how people think about diagnosis (1/14/15, "Lay People and Emotional Distress" and 9/17/14, "People Speak Out about Diagnosis")...
Social Therapy
14 Jan “Lay” People and Emotional Distress
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in Community Organizing, DSM-5, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 0 Comments
For the past several years, the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy (Institute) and the Social Therapy Group have held forums and conducted surveys on the streets of New York City on mental health topics. We’ve been working on analyzing the data from nearly 300 surveys conducted...
23 Dec Workshop at the Institute of Family Therapy
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in Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Speaking Engagements, What's New 0 Comments
I'll be in London in March 2015 with colleague Jim Wilson to do a workshop at the Institute of Family Therapy. An Introduction to Social Therapeutics: How a Psychology of Becoming Informs a Non-diagnostic, Developmental Therapy Thursday 26th March and Friday 27th March 2015 Lois Holzman and Jim Wilson This conversational workshop will explore...
23 Dec “Practicing Method” published in Psychotherapy and Politics International
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....
13 Aug My first Japanese Book!
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in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Outside of School, Philosophy, Play, Postmodern Marxism, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 4 Comments
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...
02 Aug We Need To Be More/Other Than Critical
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in Community Organizing, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Popular Posts, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 1 Comment
I few months ago I was invited to write a chapter for a book being published on the topic of critical psychotherapy, counseling and psychoanalysis. I’ve begun working on it this week and am at that early stage in writing (for me) where something is emerging, but I don’t know...
15 Mar Just Released—Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology
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in Activity Theory, Critical psychiatry, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New, Wittgenstein 2 Comments
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,...
03 Jan The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky
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in Postmodern Marxism, Psychology, Publications, Social Therapy, Vygotsky, What's New 0 Comments
Published version of a Keynote Talk I gave at the 2012 Japanese Qualitative Research Conference—The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky...
11 Dec Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy
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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...
16 Oct Lois Holzman on Human Development & Making the World Better
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Steve and Mary Alice on Blog Talk Radio We'll explore Lois Holzman's new book, The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World, and how she is writing it publicly through social media. Plus, we'll talk about Discover Development NYC, a 3-day exploration of...