Becoming a book!

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.