Lois Holzman is a director and co-founder of the East Side Institute in New York, New York, where she developed social therapy methods with Fred Newman. She is notable for her research and work on Play Therapy[1] and Social Therapy,[2] and criticism of the medical model of mental health. She was instrumental in introducing the ideas of Lev Vygotsky to the fields of psychotherapy, organizational and community development.[3]
Lois Holzman | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 14 1946 |
| Occupation(s) | Co-Founder and Director of East Side Institute |
| Awards | Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (2014) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rhode Island College, Columbia University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | East Side Institute, New York, NY |
In 2014, Holzman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.[4]
Holzman is the author or co-author of multiple books including The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world (2018)[5], Vygotsky at work and play (2009) [6], Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind (1999)[7], Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary scientist (2013)[8] , and Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy (2003).[9]
Biography
Holzman received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Rhode Island College in 1967. She continued her education studying linguistics at Columbia University and Brown University. She completed her PhD in Development Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Colombia University in 1977, where she worked on studies of the developmental of causal language and the role of imitation in language development with Lois Bloom (publishing under the name Lois Hood).[10][11] After graduation, Holzman completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University where she worked with Michael Cole,[12] and later joined the faculty of Empire State College, SUNY.[13]
Holzman visited the Institute of Psychology in Moscow in 1980, where she studied the work of Vygotsky and his followers. In 1985, she and Fred Newman founded the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, which promotes humanistic approaches to psychotherapy.[14] The Institute became an international education, training and research center for social therapeutics, as well as other options for the natural science-medical model of psychology. In 2010, she became the chair of Global Outreach at the All Stars Project[15], which helps bring opportunities for under-privilege communities to grow. Also, Holzman helped with the development of the Barbara Taylor School[16], Performance of a Lifetime[17] and is the chair and chief organizer for Performing the World bi-annual conferences[18], which supports performance activism and emerging social change [19]. In 2014, Holzman became the Series Editor of Studies in Play, Performance, Learning and Development, at Palgrave Macmillan. In 2018, she became a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance at Lloyd International Honors College, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Social Therapeutics
Holzman collaborated with Newman to create Social Therapeutics as a psychotherapeutic methodology and uses group therapy to solve-problems.
As a way for play to intervene on the violence of poor communities and the hostile relationships between the police and the young people of color, The All Stars Project incorporated Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids to the training of NYPD police officers[20]. This project allowed police officers and young people to improvise a scene, that doesn't relate to them, but allowed them to play freely by talking gibberish, making funny faces and being overall silly with each other. Afterward, they would sit down and talk to each other about their hardships and how they would want to be treated by one another and found similarities. The results of this project is being able to see the human behind the cop and kid roles.
Representative Publications
Holzman, L. (2018). The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. New York: East Side Institute.
Holzman, L., & Morss, J. (2014). Postmodern psychologies, societal practice, and political life. Routledge.
Newman, F., & Holzman, L. (2013). Lev Vygotsky (Classic Edition): Revolutionary Scientist. Psychology Press.
Holzman, L. (2009). Vygotsky at work and play. London and New York: Routledge. (Japanese edition, 2014.)
Newman, F., & Holzman, L. (2006). Unscientific psychology: A cultural-performatory approach to understanding human life. iUniverse.
Holzman, L., & Mendez, R. (2004). Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy. Routledge.
Holzman, L. (1999). Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind. Psychology Press.
References
- ^ "Play Therapy | Psychology Today". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
- ^ "Social therapy", Wikipedia, 2018-05-22, retrieved 2018-10-07
- ^ "About Me". Lois Holzman. 2008-10-30. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
- ^ ""Lifetime Achievement" in Cultural Historical Research". Lois Holzman. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
- ^ The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. New York.
- ^ Thomas, Michael (2010). "Vygotsky at work and play - By Lois Holzman". British Journal of Educational Technology. 41 (3): E61–E62. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01080_6.x. ISSN 0007-1013.
- ^ Holzman, Lois (2003). Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind. ISBN 9780203427323.
- ^ Lois., Holzman, (2016). Lev vygotsky : revolutionary scientist. Routledge. ISBN 1138142557. OCLC 941437123.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Holzman, Lois; Mendez, Rafael (2005). Psychological investigations: a clinician's guide to social therapy. New York: Brunner-Routledge. ISBN 0203010795.
- ^ Hood, Lois; Bloom, Lois; Brainerd, Charles J. (1979). "What, When, and How about Why: A Longitudinal Study of Early Expressions of Causality". Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 44 (6): 1–47. doi:10.2307/1165989.
- ^ Bloom, Lois; Hood, Lois; Lightbown, Patsy (1974). "Imitation in language development: If, when, and why". Cognitive Psychology. 6 (3): 380–420. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(74)90018-8. ISSN 0010-0285.
- ^ Hood, Lois; McDermott, Ray; Cole, Michael (1980). ""Let'stryto make it a good day"— some not so simple ways∗". Discourse Processes. 3 (2): 155–168. doi:10.1080/01638538009544484. ISSN 0163-853X.
- ^ "East Side Institute » Lois Holzman". eastsideinstitute.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ "East Side Institute » About the East Side Institute". eastsideinstitute.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "All Stars Project, Inc". allstars.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ Lois,, Holzman,. Schools for growth : radical alternatives to current education models. Abingdon. ISBN 9781135455422. OCLC 949275030.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Performance of a lifetime".
- ^ "Home". Performing the World. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
- ^ "One on One...with Lois Holzman | The Psychologist". thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
- ^ "Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids – All Stars Project, Inc". allstars.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.