The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky
Holzman, L. (2013). The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky. Japanese Qualitative Psychology Forum, 4.
Practicing Method: Social Therapy as Practical-Critical Psychology
Holzman, L. (2014). Practicing method: Social therapy as practical-critical psychology. Marxism and Psychotherapy, a special issue of Psychotherapy & Politics International.
How Much of a Loss is the Loss of Self?
Holzman, L. (2007). How Much of a Loss is the Loss of Self? Presented at the “Language Dynamics and the Phenomenology of Individual Experience,” Symposium of the Distributed Language Group, Agder University College, Grimstad Norway, May 2007.
Vygotsky on the Margins: A Global Search for Method
Holzman, L. (2015). Vygotsky on the Margins: A Global Search for Method. Presented at the Symposium, Vygotsky and Social Justice: Community Education and Community Development, AERA Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2015.
Social Therapy and Creating an Activist Life
Holzman, L. (2015). Social Therapy and Creating an Activist Life. Presentation at one-day conference on healing society. Fu-jen Catholic University. Taipei, Taiwan. April 2015.
Relating to People as Revolutionaries
Lois Holzman has a chapter in Del Lowenthal’s new book, "Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice,” on Relating to People as Revolutionaries..
Social Therapy and Creating an Activist Life
Holzman, L. (2015). Social Therapy and Creating an Activist Life. Chinese translation of presentation at one-day conference on healing society at Fu-jen Catholic University, Taipei Taiwan, April 2015.
Summer Institute with Christine LaCerva
Therapeutic opera? "Where Am I? (A People's Opera)" will use music, movement & conversation to explore this chaotic moment in history.
Survey on Emotional Distress and Mental Health Diagnoses
Is diagnosis helpful? hurtful? stigmatizing? a necessary prerequisite for getting help? What do you think? Take the survey and pass it on!
Schools for Growth, Radical Alternatives to current Educational Models (Chinese Edition)
Holzman, L. (2015) Schools for Growth, Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models, Complex Chinese Language, New Taipei City Association for Promotion of Adult Learning. (Originally published 1997 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., N.J. )
Relating to people as revolutionaries
Holzman, L. (2015). Relating to people as revolutionaries. In Loewenthal, D. (ed.), Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.
Bringing Play and Development into new Arenas
Read Carrie Lobman's latest essay, Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas, which...
A report on community outreach: Lay opinions on emotional stress and diagnosis
Holzman, L. (2015). A report on community outreach: Lay opinions on emotional distress and diagnosis. DxSummit.org.
Schools for Growth, Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models
Holzman, L. (2015) Schools for Growth, Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models, Complex Chinese Language, New Taipei City Association for Promotion of Adult Learning. (Originally published 1997 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., N. J.)
Psychiatric Name Calling: What do people say about it?
Psychiatric Name Calling: What do people say about it? posted by psychologist Jeff Rubin on his blog “From Insults to Respect,” May 10, 2015, reports on the Institute’s community research project on emotional distress and mental health diagnoses.
Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas
Lobman, C. (2015). Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas. In J. Johnson, S. Eberle, T. Henricks, and D. Kuschner (Eds.). *Handbook of the Study of Play. *New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
Making a Conceptual Revolution with Eric Maisel
Listen to Eric Maisel and Lois Holzman’s wide-ranging conversation on living the creative, developmental life...
Professional Development Saturday
Join social therapists Hugh Polk, M.D. & Rachel Mickenberg Saturday 4/18 for their workshop "How Performing Conversation can Transform your Practice."
Developing Democracy: Creating a New Political Culture
Join this wide-ranging online conversation with Cathy Stewart & Carrie Lobman and explore the relationship between democracy and development. Begins May 1.
Emotional Distress & Diagnosis: Word on the Street
Lois Holzman reports on what we heard on the streets of NYC when we talked with people about mental health diagnosis. Quite an eye-opener...
A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self
A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self Newman, F. (1999)In Lois Holzman (ed.), Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind. Routledge. 111--32.
Lois Holzman Lives What She Teaches About Play
Jamie Turner writes about Lois Holzman on the TEDX Navesink blog.
Bad Psychiatry? Non-Diagnostic Therapies? What’s the Future of Mental Health?
Tune in Feb. 23 as host Eric Maisel interviews Lois Holzman, Donna Rockwell, Tim Carey and 12 others on challenges to bad psychiatry.
Salvi Greco brings Italian Cuisine/Story-telling to NYC
Salvi Greco describes the presentation he made at Performing the World 2014," Cook-Telling Stories-Lab,” as an “innov-active” workshop through which participants explore how through combining creative cooking and story telling it is possible to work on group process, group dynamics, group building, and focus on topics like unlocking creativity, change, innovation, self development, group/community development, and intercultural learning.
Investigating Wittgenstein
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Listen to Lenora Fulani on Poverty, Race Relations and Development
On Dec. 5, Dr. Fulani led a special forum titled, “Looking at the World Through Independent Eyes,” that passionately conveyed the living history of the fight for voting, civil and human rights...
Social Therapeutics & The Practice of Method
Dive into a fascinating 20-week, online group conversation and exploration of the social therapeutic approach led by Lois Holzman, with Carrie Lobman and Chris Helm. (Begins January 2015.)
Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way)
Bonny Gildin explores the All Stars Project's model of afterschool development which uses performance and pretending to help young people in the inner cities develop as creators of their lives and communities...
Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way)
Gildin, B. (2015) Afterschool: Growth! (The All Stars Way). In J. Vadeboncoeur (Ed.), Learning in and across contexts: Reimagining education. National Society for the Study of Education, v. 113, i. 2. pp 425-446.