Lois Holzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 612706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lois Holzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lois |
| FAMILY NAME | Holzman |
| SIGNATURE | HOLZMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Musings on ecological validity (with a little help from my friends)
This essay consists of a series of short cultural-philosophical meditations on psychology and its proper unit of study, an issue of great concern to the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) throughout its decades of work. The Lab’s claim that experimental cognitive psychology is ecologically invalid is juxtaposed to other LCHC conceptual challenges to psychology and the negative impact it has on people’s lives-as-lived, as well as cha…
Diagnosis
The public is rarely asked its opinions concerning mental health issues and, as revealed by a literature search, is almost never surveyed on this topic without the use of medicalized, diagnostic, forced choice illness language. This article reports on an ongoing community outreach project that gave people the opportunity to reflect on and share their thoughts about the medical-mental illness-diagnostic model and its impact on their lives. Two org…
“Vygotskian-izing” Psychotherapy
Although Vygotsky’s ideas are applied to dozens of disciplines/practices, psychotherapy is not among them. With few exceptions, contemporary Vygotskians have stayed clear of the subject; and most psychotherapy researchers and clinical practitioners have little familiarity with Vygotsky—despite Vygotsky’s challenge to psychology’s isolation of the intellectual from the affective. Recent manifestations of psychotherapy’s cognitive bias are discusse…
Critical Psychology, Philosophy, and Social Therapy
Activating Postmodernism
This article articulates the relationship between postmodernism and activity theory. Specifically, it is argued that a synthesis of post-modern psychology and activity theory can be effected such that (a) activity theory is transformed from a progressive, albeit modernist, theory into a postmodern praxis for empowering people; and (b) postmodern psychology is made more radical and more rigorous and, thereby, less vulnerable to critiques from both…
What Kind of Theory is Activity Theory
The theoretical, research and practice perspective known variously as activity theory, the cultural-historical theory of activity, CHAT (cultural historical activity theory), socio-cultural psychology and cultural historical psychology has evolved bodies of literature in diverse areas, most notably developmental, educational and organizational psychology; psychotherapy; cognitive science; curriculum and teaching; literacy, writing and rhetoric; i…
Against Againstism
This comment on Parker's `Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context' (Parker, 1998) contextualizes Parker's `againstism' (critical) stance. Parker characterizes postmodernism as theoretical play that has gone too far. Having exhausted its progressive potential, it's become a breeding ground for reactionary ideas now threatening psychology and a radical political agenda. Parker, recognizing that what he fears postmodernism has spawned …
Developing Poor and Minority Children as Leaders with the Barbara Taylor School Educational Model
As educators, psychologists, social workers, and others concerned with the development of children and youth, we are faced with a fundamental contradiction of our professions. On the one hand, children desperately need our help. Children, especially poor and minority children, need to be more developed today than the children of twenty, ten, or even five years ago in order to negotiate a world full of hardship, crisis, instability, and violence.'…
People need power
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People need power
Developing Poor and Minority Children as Leaders with the Barbara Taylor School Educational Model
As educators, psychologists, social workers, and others concerned with the development of children and youth, we are faced with a fundamental contradiction of our professions. On the one hand, children desperately need our help. Children, especially poor and minority children, need to be more developed today than the children of twenty, ten, or even five years ago in order to negotiate a world full of hardship, crisis, instability, and violence.'…
Against Againstism
This comment on Parker's `Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context' (Parker, 1998) contextualizes Parker's `againstism' (critical) stance. Parker characterizes postmodernism as theoretical play that has gone too far. Having exhausted its progressive potential, it's become a breeding ground for reactionary ideas now threatening psychology and a radical political agenda. Parker, recognizing that what he fears postmodernism has spawned …
Activating Postmodernism
This article articulates the relationship between postmodernism and activity theory. Specifically, it is argued that a synthesis of post-modern psychology and activity theory can be effected such that (a) activity theory is transformed from a progressive, albeit modernist, theory into a postmodern praxis for empowering people; and (b) postmodern psychology is made more radical and more rigorous and, thereby, less vulnerable to critiques from both…
What Kind of Theory is Activity Theory
The theoretical, research and practice perspective known variously as activity theory, the cultural-historical theory of activity, CHAT (cultural historical activity theory), socio-cultural psychology and cultural historical psychology has evolved bodies of literature in diverse areas, most notably developmental, educational and organizational psychology; psychotherapy; cognitive science; curriculum and teaching; literacy, writing and rhetoric; i…
“Vygotskian-izing” Psychotherapy
Although Vygotsky’s ideas are applied to dozens of disciplines/practices, psychotherapy is not among them. With few exceptions, contemporary Vygotskians have stayed clear of the subject; and most psychotherapy researchers and clinical practitioners have little familiarity with Vygotsky—despite Vygotsky’s challenge to psychology’s isolation of the intellectual from the affective. Recent manifestations of psychotherapy’s cognitive bias are discusse…
Critical Psychology, Philosophy, and Social Therapy
Diagnosis
The public is rarely asked its opinions concerning mental health issues and, as revealed by a literature search, is almost never surveyed on this topic without the use of medicalized, diagnostic, forced choice illness language. This article reports on an ongoing community outreach project that gave people the opportunity to reflect on and share their thoughts about the medical-mental illness-diagnostic model and its impact on their lives. Two org…
Musings on ecological validity (with a little help from my friends)
This essay consists of a series of short cultural-philosophical meditations on psychology and its proper unit of study, an issue of great concern to the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) throughout its decades of work. The Lab’s claim that experimental cognitive psychology is ecologically invalid is juxtaposed to other LCHC conceptual challenges to psychology and the negative impact it has on people’s lives-as-lived, as well as cha…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Activity Theory (2 works)