Chapters, Articles, Presentations

Holzman, Lois (2023), Creating Our Mental Health, presentation and Institute faculty-led workshop; A Diagnosis for Everyone, UK, (AD4E) online forum, July 2023.

Perone, A. & Lobman, C. (2023). Improv as inclusive play: Co-creating learning ensembles in higher education. In O.S. Jarrett, V. Stenhouse, M. Patte & J. Sutterby (Eds.), Play and Social Justice across Systems of Inequity. Peter Lang Publisher.

Lobman, C. (2023). Curating playful environments for development. In O.S. Jarrett, V. Stenhouse, M. Patte & J. Sutterby (Eds.), Play and Social Justice across Systems of Inequity. Peter Lang Publisher.  

Friedman, Dan (2022) Performance Activism: A Reconstructive Approach to Social Activism and Generating Possibility,  Annual Lloyd International Honors College Lecture, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (online)

Friedman, Dan. (2022) Can Theatre Heal Trauma? A Case Study from India. American Theatre Magazine.

Lobman, C. & Rich, M. (2022). Creating community and building connection through play: An improvisational response to the coronavirus pandemic. The International Journal of play, 11 (1), 39-53.

Holzman, Lois. The Performance Movement: The Obvious and Outrageous Way Out of the Epistemological Fly Bottle. Conference presentation, Alive in the Anthropocene, January 23, 2021.

Lobman, C. and Rich, M. (2021) Playing Around with Changing the World. In Theresa Robbins Dudeck & Caitlin McClure (Eds.) The Applied Improvisation Mindset: Tools for Transforming Organizations and Communities. Metheun/Bloomsbury. Chapter Description.

Fridley, M., Massad, S., Kontos, P., Carson, J. et al. (2021) Separate and Unequal: A Time to Reimagine Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Holzman, L.  Non Knowing Growing. Presentation,  the Normal? Festival of the Brain conference, Folkstone UK, November 2020.

Holzman, L. (2020). Vygotsky on the Margins. In Adolfo Tanzi Neto, Fernanda Liberali, Manolis Dafermos (Eds.), Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change: Bringing Together Theory and Practice. Peter Lang Publishers, NY.

Fridley, M. and S. Massad, S. (2020). The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) Australian Journal of Dementia Care.  January/February 2020.

Holzman, L and C. Salit (2020). Why be Half-Human? How Play, Performance and Practical Philosophy Make Us Whole. Draft chapter to appear in Social Construction in Action. Taos Worldshare: Taos Institute.

Massad, S. and Silverman, B. (2020) Creating an Ensemble for Performing Health. Draft of article to appear in the Taos Institute’s Harnessing Humanness in Healthcare - Appreciative and Relational Practices, 2020.

Pernecky, T. & Holzman, L. (2019). Knowledge as play: Centering as what matters in T. Pernecky (Ed.), Postdisciplnary Knowledge, (pp. 115-133). London: Routledge.

Forget What You Know About Dementia. A webinar with Richard Coaten, Mary Fridley, Susanna Howard and Peter Whitehouse, moderated by Lois Holzman (November 2019)

Holzman, L. (2019) Keynote presentation to  the Play, Perform, Learn, Grow conference, The Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Exploring the End of Knowing. A webinar with Sugata Mitra and Lois Holzman, moderated by Janet Wootten (June 2019)

Friedman, D. (2019) Performing a Positive Alternative amid a Failing World Order. Presentation to the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest conference, University of Manchester, England.

Holzman, L. (2019). Musings on Ecological Validity (with a little help from my friends). Draft of article to appear in Mind, Culture and Activity, 2019.

Salit, C. (2018) Oncology Nurses Creating a Culture of Resiliency with Improvisation. In Theresa Robbins Dudeck and Caitlin McClure (Eds.), Applied Improvisation: Leading, Collaborating, and Creating Beyond the Theatre. (Methuen Drama / Bloomsbury Publishing).

Holzman, L. (2018). Let's Perform a New Campus Life. Presentation made at Georgia State University September 4, 2018.

Holzman, L. and Genn, E. (2018) Diagnosis: A Thousand People Speak Out. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

Holzman, L. (2018) Zones of Proximal Development: Mundane and Magical.  In J. P. Lantolf, M. E. Poehner & M. Swain (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Development (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics),

López Ramírez, S.P. and Reyman, C. (2018) Improvising New Realities: Movement, Sound and Social Therapeutics. Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, Vol. 12, No. 1.

Holzman, L. (2018) Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar. Symposium Presentation. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. New York NY.

Holzman, L. (2018). What Does It Take To Be Culturally Relevant? Plenary Address. Applied Linguistic Winter Conference (NYSTESOL): Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.  Teachers College Columbia University, April 21, 2018.

Ingalls, J.S. (2018) Improvisational Theater Games: Performatory Team-building Activities. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 89:1, 40-45

Holzman, L. (2018). The Revolution Must Be Performed. Presentation made at the Fifth International Congress: Consciencia: Ciencia y Espiritualidad Puebla Mexico March 3, 2018.

Holzman, L. (2018). Using Improvisation and Performativity as Teaching Tools. Presentation made at 2018 Art Ed Now Online Conference for Art Educators. Watch presentation here.

Lobman, C. (2017) Performing on a Wider Stage: Developing Inner-City Youth Through Play and Performance. Mind, Culture, Activity. Vol. 24 (3). pp. 217-231

Friedman, D. (2017). Performance Activism: An Emerging Global Strategy for Reinitiating Human Development and Creating Community. Talk delivered at the 2017 Japan All Stars Workshop: The Future of Performatory Psychology in Action, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo.

LaCerva, C. (2016). Social Therapy and Family Play. In P. Smagorinsky (Ed.). Creativity and Community Among Autism-Spectrum Youth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Holzman, L. (2016). All Power to the Developing Keynote Presentation, “Another Way Out: Addressing Violence through Culture,” International Conference on Citizenship Culture, Bogotá Colombia, October 2016.

Holzman, L. (2016). Creating Communities of Hope.. Keynote Lecture, 2016 International Conference of Allies Across Boundaries: Diverse Practices of Education and Human Potential Development. National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien Taiwan, November 2016.

"Self-Organizing Institutions and the Development of Citizenship Culture,” Dan Friedman, presentation, October 19, 2016, biennial conference, Corpovisionarios por Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.

“Honor Your Playfulness,” Lois Holzman, presentation, October 7, 2016, North Carolina Honors Association Conference, UNC at Greensboro, NC.

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.

Holzman, L. (2015). Relating to people as revolutionaries. In Loewenthal, D. (ed.), Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

Holzman, L. (2015). A report on community outreach: Lay opinions on emotional distress and diagnosis. DxSummit.org.

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.

Holzman, L. (2014). Practicing method: Social therapy as practical-critical psychology. Marxism and Psychotherapy, a special issue of Psychotherapy & Politics International.

Perone, A. (2014) Healing With(in) Imaginative Play. Child Life Council Bulletin, v. 32, n. 3, page 7.

“Play Helps Us Grow at Any Age,” Lois Holzman, presentation, May 10, 2014, TEDxNavesink, Navesink, N.J.

Friedman, D. and Holzman, L. Performing the World: The Emergence of Performance Activism. Atay Citorn, David Zerbib, and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi (Eds.), Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century. Methuen.

Holzman, L. (2013). The Methodology of Social Therapy: Marx and Vygotsky.  Japanese Qualitative Psychology Forum, 4.

Friedman, D. (2013) Performance and Development: Some reflections on the relationship between theatre, community and social change. Revista Interdisciplinar de Gestao Social, v.2/n. 3, pp. 157-177.

Holzman, L. Interview for The Psychologist, The British Psychological Society.

Holzman, L. Performative Psychology, Postmodern Marxism, Social Therapy, Zone of Emotional Development. Draft of four entries in T. Teo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer Reference.

Holzman, L. Vygotskian-izing Psychotherapy. To appear in Mind, Culture and Activity, 00:1-16.

Holzman, L. The Development Community and its Activist Psychology. R. House, Kalisch, D. and Maldman, J. (Eds.) The Future of Humanistic Psychology. PCCS Books.

Holzman, L. A Letter from Vygotsky. In Kress, T. and R. Lake (eds.) We Saved the Best for You—Letters of Hope, Imagination and Wisdom for 21st Century Educators.

Holzman, L. Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy. Human Studies, A Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences.

Toward a New Art of Integration, Ananta Kumar Giri

Lobman, C. "I feel nervous... very nervous": Addressing test anxiety in inner city schools. Urban Education. XX(X), 11-31.

Perone, A.T. The Presence and Significance of Imaginative Play in the Lives of Mexican American Adults. Dissertation. University of Illinois at Chicago, Educational Psychology.

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.

Fulani's Tools and Results: Development as Black Empowerment, Omar Ali

LaCerva, C. and Helm, C. (2011). Social Therapy with Children with Special Needs and Their Families. In C. Lobman and B. O'Neill (Eds.), Play and Culture Studies. Vol. 11. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Gildin, B. (2011). After-School Growth: What Young People Have to Say. Democracy & Education, v.19/n.1.

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. Fred Newman and the Practice of Method. Presented at the Third International Academic Conference on Contemporary Capitalism Studies, Hangzhou China, October 22-23, 2011.

Lobman, C. (2011). Democracy and Development: The Role of Outside of School Experiences in Preparing Young People to Be Active Citizens. Democracy & Education. Vol. 19 (1). Article 5.

Newman, F. and Fulani, L. Let's Pretend, Solving the Educational Crisis in America: A Special Report. All Stars Project Inc. White Paper.

LaCerva, C. (2010) The Hamburger Syndrome, Blog Post, The Community Therapist, NY, NY.

Holzman, L. (2008). Creating Stages for Development: A learning community with many tasks and no goal. In A. Sumaras, A. Freese, C. Kosnick and C. Beck (Eds.), Learning communities in practice. NY: Springer.

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. (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.

Newman, F. (2003).  Science Can Do Better than Sokal. In L. Holzman (Ed.) Performing Psychology:  A postmodern culture of the mind. [pp. 133-141]. London:  Routledge.

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.

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.

Holzman, L. (2005). Boundaries, relationships and diversity: Some ethical considerations. The Advocate (Newsletter of APA Division 37).

Feldman, N. and Silverman, B. The let’s talk about it model: Engaging young people as partners in creating their own mental health program. K. E. Robinson (Ed.), Advances in School-Based Mental Health, Best Practices and Program Models. New Jersey: Civic Research Institute.