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...
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.
Lobman, C. & Clark, Katelyn (2015). From the dress-up corner to the stage: Dramatic activities for early childhood classrooms. Young Children, 70(2).
The latest chapter in Lois Holzman's The Overweight Brain takes aim at "scientific" psychology...
Spend a re-energizing weekend in the cultural capital of New York this fall and experience Vygotskian-inspired performances of personal and community development.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Holzman, L. (2013). The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky. Japanese Qualitative Psychology Forum, 4.
Holzman, L. (2014). Practicing method: Social therapy as practical-critical psychology. Marxism and Psychotherapy, a special issue of Psychotherapy & Politics International.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
Therapeutic opera? "Where Am I? (A People's Opera)" will use music, movement & conversation to explore this chaotic moment in history.
Is diagnosis helpful? hurtful? stigmatizing? a necessary prerequisite for getting help? What do you think? Take the survey and pass it on!
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. )
Holzman, L. (2015). Relating to people as revolutionaries. In Loewenthal, D. (ed.), Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.
Read Carrie Lobman's latest essay, Performance, theatre, and improvisation: Bringing play and development into new arenas, which...
Holzman, L. (2015). A report on community outreach: Lay opinions on emotional distress and diagnosis. DxSummit.org.
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? 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.
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.
Listen to Eric Maisel and Lois Holzman’s wide-ranging conversation on living the creative, developmental life...
Join social therapists Hugh Polk, M.D. & Rachel Mickenberg Saturday 4/18 for their workshop "How Performing Conversation can Transform your Practice."
Join this wide-ranging online conversation with Cathy Stewart & Carrie Lobman and explore the relationship between democracy and development. Begins May 1.
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...