A Developmentalist’s Guide to Better Mental Health

The Developmentalist advice column is becoming a book!

  • "...a powerful, social therapeutic invitation to transform everything!"

  • “Reimagining life’s challenges as opportunities for growth”

  • “A provocative, joyful read”

  • “An invitation to transform”

Lois Holzman’s “The Developmentalist” advice column is the centerpiece of a provocative new book — A Developmentalist’s Guide to Better Mental Health: Navigating Everyday Life Dilemmas (Routledge, summer 2025).

 

Letters and responses are grouped thematically by topics such as Family Life, On the Job, What a World!, and “It’s Just Me…” They are followed by reflections on them by many of the letter writers, and therapists, coaches and counselors. In other chapters, Lois outlines features of a Developmentalist’s Practice, and locates the practice within the history of social therapeutics and the broader psychology and mental health arenas.

 

Readers of the pre-publication manuscript have made rousing endorsements: “A provocative, joyful read;” “An invitation to transform;” “Reimagining life’s challenges as opportunities for growth.”

Read more HERE about “The Developmentalist” project, and take a peak at some of the letters and Lois’s advice to readers on how to move around-and-about everyday quagmires, qualms and quandaries.