“Sería hermoso que todos los bandos del conflicto hicieran teatro juntos”
Interview: Dan Friedman and Lois Holzman by Sergio Rodríquez, Arcadia, Bogatà, Colombia
Honor Your Playfulness
“Honor Your Playfulness,” Lois Holzman, presentation, October 7, 2016, North Carolina Honors Association Conference, UNC at Greensboro, NC.
Relational Practices– Health
Faculty Susan Massad and Barbara Silverman will present at the Taos Institute's "Relational Practices in Health" conference in Cleveland on "Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health."
Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance
Peter Smagorinsky's new book is the first in the Palgrave Macmillan series, "Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development."
What is Social Therapeutics? with Carrie Lobman
Beginning Oct. 14, join Carrie for a vibrant online investigation of social therapeutic community stages in psychotherapy, education, after-school youth programs and the work place.
Performance Activists Take the Stage on 42nd Street
Featured presenters include Patch Adams, Kenneth Gergen, Antanas Mockus, Richard Schechner, and participants from 30+ countries. Check out the latest news and photos.
Radical Therapist
Radical Therapist, Chris Hoff, talks to Christine LaCerva about the developmental challenge of social therapeutic groups. Listen
Performing the World 2016: Can We Perform our Way to Power?
Already, 24 countries represented. Check out the latest news on featured presenters. Register now!
Director of Training Christine LaCerva interviewed by the Radical Therapist
One radical therapist interviews another-- Chris Hoff speaks to Christine LaCerva about the history and practice of social therapy: listen here.
Cops & Kids and Reflections on Justice
Faculty Lenora Fulani discusses police / community relations on CUNY-TV series, Criminal Justice Matters.
A Summer Institute with Cathy Salit
A day-long performance and improvisation workshop with "Performance Breakthrough" author, Cathy Salit, Sat, Aug 6.
On the Future of Mental Health
As part of his Psychology Today series, Eric Maisel interviews Lois Holzman on how emotions are social.
The Weekend Intensive
Christine LaCerva and Faculty introduce you to the Clinical Practice of SocialTherapy, Thurs-Sat, June 2-4
What’s the Opposite of Play?
"遊び"の反義語は"労働"ではない 遊び"の反意語は"抑うつ"である。 "遊び"とは未来のために今の自分を越えようとする意志を含むものであるからだ。 このように考えると"遊ぶ"ことによって自分が何者であるかがわかり、また、そのことで自分が孤立したり犠牲を被ったりしなくなる。 遊ぶこと(演じること)は自分がどのようにコミュニティの一員となるのかということである。 様々なコミュニティの中で、そのコミュニティにおける適確なメンバーとして自分を想像し、創造的に他者を模倣することで、私たちはコミュニティの一員となる。 言い換えれば、私たちはコミュニティのメンバーを演じること(遊ぶこと)によって、やり方を知る前にコミュニティの一部になるのである。 英語の勉強も兼ねて誤訳はきっとたくさんあるけど日本語訳にしてみた。 ホルツマン、言いたいことがわかるようなわからないような… 彼女と対話を始めてついに3年目。
Hugh Polk, Institute faculty and social therapist is interviewed by Eric Maisel
Read Eric Maisel's interview of Hugh Polk on his Psychology Today blog, Rethinking Mental Health.
Lois Holzman on Social Therapy
Lois Holzman on Social Therapy posted by Eric Maisel on his Psychology Today blog, Rethinking Mental Health.
Professional Development Saturday
Explore the politics, ethics and activity of emotional development with Hugh Polk & Rachel Mickenberg, March 12….
Interview with play impresario, Carrie Lobman
Play is critical to development; yet schools continue to strip play from the curriculum...
Performance Breakthrough
Salit, C.R. (2016). Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work. Hachette Book Group: New York.
Vygotsky at Work and Play
Holzman, L. (2016) Vygotsky at Work and Play, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
Social Therapeutics & The Practice of Method
Explore the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming with Lois Holzman. Begins Feb. 5…
Performing NYC: The Politics and Psychology of Doing the Inconceivable
Black and white. Rich and poor. Police and inner-city youth. How do we grow a city in so much pain? When Dr. Lenora Fulani is asked this question, her answer is simple. We perform...
The Diagnostic Debate: Voices from the Street
Holzman, L. (2105). The Diagnostic Debate: Voices from the Street. Presentation at the symposium, Beyond the DSM—Current Trends in Devising New Diagnostic Alternatives. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Toronto Ontario, August 2015.
From the dress-up corner to the stage: Dramatic activities for early childhood classrooms
Lobman, C. & Clark, Katelyn (2015). From the dress-up corner to the stage: Dramatic activities for early childhood classrooms. Young Children, 70(2).
Psychology Made Its Bed, and We’re the Ones Who Have to Lie in It
The latest chapter in Lois Holzman's The Overweight Brain takes aim at "scientific" psychology...
Discover Development NYC
Spend a re-energizing weekend in the cultural capital of New York this fall and experience Vygotskian-inspired performances of personal and community development.
A Decade of Postmodern Psychology
Holzman, L. and Morss, J. (2000). A Decade of Postmodern Psychology. In L. Holzman and J. Morss (Eds.), Postmodern psychologies, societal practice and political life. [pp. 3-14]. New York: Routledge.
Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology
Holzman, L. (2006). Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology: Implications for Business and Organizations In D.M. Hosking and S. McNamee (Eds.), The social construction of organization. Oslo: Liber.
Activity and Performance (and their Discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method
Holzman, L. and Newman, F. (2012). Activity and Performance (and their Discourses) in Social Therapeutic Method In T. Strong and A. Lock (Eds.), Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice . [pp. 184-195]. London: Oxford University Press.
How Much of a Loss is the Loss of Self?
Holzman, L. (2011). How Much of a Loss is the Loss of Self? Undersanding Vygotsky from a Social Therapeutic Perspective and Vice Versa. New Ideas in Psychology 29, 98–105.