is the founder of the East Side Institute for Group and
Short Term Psychotherapy and has had a private psychotherapy practice
for over thirty years. He served as artistic director of the Castillo
Theatre from 1989 to 2005.
He received his Ph.D. in analytic philosophy and foundations of mathematics
from Stanford University in 1962 and then taught at several colleges and
Universities. He left academia in 1969 to pursue community and political
organizing.
For four decades, Newman has been the catalyst for building sustained,
community-based developmental psychological, educational and cultural
projects in New York and other cities.
Among his books, co-authored with Lois Holzman, are Unscientific
Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life;
The End of Knowing: A New
Developmental Way of Learning; and Lev
Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist.
Fred has also written two books for a popular audience -- Let's
Develop! A Guide to Continuous Personal Growth and Performance
of a Lifetime: A Practical-Philosophical Guide to the Joyous Life.
In addition to his writings on psychology, psychotherapy and philosophy,
Newman is the author of nearly 30 plays (see: Still
on the Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays), four of which
were written expressly for production at annual conventions of the American
Psychological Association.
For more information go to frednewmanphd.com.
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