Lois Holzman Explained

Lois Holzman
Occupation:Therapist
Birth Date:June 14, 1946
Workplaces:East Side Institute, New York, NY
Alma Mater:Rhode Island College, Columbia University
Awards:Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (2014)

Lois Holzman is 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 known for her research and work on play therapy,[1] social therapy, 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. In 2014, Holzman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.[2]

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),[3] Vygotsky at work and play (2009),[4] [5] Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind (1999),[6] and Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy (2003).[7] She and Newman co-authored the widely cited volume Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary scientist (1993)[8] [9] and The end of knowing: A new developmental way of learning (1997).[10]

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 Teachers College, Columbia University in 1977. As a graduate student, Holzman conducted research on the development of causal language and the role of imitation in language development with Lois Bloom (publishing under the name Lois Hood).[11] [12] After graduation, Holzman completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University where she worked with Michael Cole,[13] and later joined the faculty of Empire State College, SUNY. Holzman visited the Institute of Psychology in Moscow in 1980 to study the work of Vygotsky and his followers.[14]

In 1985, Holzman and Fred Newman founded the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, which promotes humanistic approaches to psychotherapy. Together they introduced social therapeutics as a form of group therapy to help people solve problems.[15] The East Side Institute became an international education, training and research center for social therapeutics.

In 2010, she became the chair of Global Outreach at the All Stars Project,[16] which helps create opportunities for positive youth development. Using play to mitigate potentially hostile relationships between the police and young people of color, The All Stars Project introduced Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids to the training of NYPD police officers.[17] Operation Conversation invites police officers and young people to improvise a scene that doesn't relate to them, but allows them to play and talk freely, and get to know each other in a relaxed, playful context. Afterward, they can sit down and talk to each other about their hardships and how they would like to be treated by one another and find common ground.

Holzman was involved in the development of educational programming at the Barbara Taylor School[18] [19] and Performance of a Lifetime.[20] She is the chair and chief organizer of the Performing the World[21] bi-annual conference, which supports performance activism and emerging social change.[22] 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.[23]

Selected bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Play Therapy Psychology Today. Psychology Today. en-US. 2018-10-07.
  2. News: "Lifetime Achievement" in Cultural Historical Research. 2015-03-25. Lois Holzman. 2018-11-05. en-US.
  3. Book: The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. New York. en. 876295962.
  4. Book: Holzman, Lois. Vygotsky at work and play. 9781138937840. 2nd. Abingdon, Oxon. 952277043. 2016-10-26.
  5. Thomas. Michael. 2010. Vygotsky at work and play - By Lois Holzman. British Journal of Educational Technology. en. 41. 3. E61–E62. 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01080_6.x. 0007-1013.
  6. Book: Holzman, Lois. Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind.. 2003. Taylor & Francis . 9780203427323. en.
  7. Book: Psychological investigations: a clinician's guide to social therapy. Holzman. Lois. Mendez. Rafael. 2005. Brunner-Routledge. 978-0203010792. New York. en.
  8. Book: Newman, Fred, Holzman, Lois. Lev Vygotsky: revolutionary scientist. 1993. Routledge. 978-0415064415. London. 26397665.
  9. Book: Holzman, Lois. Lev Vygotsky: revolutionary scientist.. 2016. Routledge. 978-1138142558. 941437123.
  10. Book: Newman, Fred, Holzman, Lois. The end of knowing: a new developmental way of learning. 1997. Routledge. 978-0203181935. London. 70769024.
  11. 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. 10.2307/1165989. 542205. 1165989.
  12. Bloom. Lois. Hood. Lois. Lightbown. Patsy. 1974. Imitation in language development: If, when, and why. Cognitive Psychology. 6. 3. 380–420. 10.1016/0010-0285(74)90018-8. 0010-0285.
  13. Hood. Lois. McDermott. Ray. Cole. Michael. 1980. "Let'stryto make it a good day"— some not so simple ways∗. Discourse Processes. en. 3. 2. 155–168. 10.1080/01638538009544484. 0163-853X.
  14. Web site: East Side Institute » Lois Holzman. eastsideinstitute.org. en-US. 2018-11-20.
  15. Web site: East Side Institute » About the East Side Institute. eastsideinstitute.org. en-US. 2018-11-20.
  16. Web site: All Stars Project, Inc.. allstars.org. en-US. 2018-11-20.
  17. Web site: Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids – All Stars Project, Inc.. allstars.org. en-US. 2018-11-20.
  18. Strickland. Gloria. Holzman. Lois. 1989. Developing Poor and Minority Children as Leaders with the Barbara Taylor School Educational Model. The Journal of Negro Education. 58. 3. 383–398. 10.2307/2295671. 2295671.
  19. Book: Lois, Holzman. Schools for growth : radical alternatives to current education models. 9781135455422. Abingdon. 949275030. 2016-05-06.
  20. News: Performance of a lifetime.
  21. News: Home. Performing the World. 2018-10-07. en-US.
  22. Web site: One on One...with Lois Holzman The Psychologist. thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. en. 2018-11-20.
  23. Web site: Lois Holzman University of North Carolina at Greensboro. loisholzman.org. en-US. 2018-11-27.

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