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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]

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 Kid_s 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

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• Holzman, L. (1999). Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind. Psychology Press.
• Holzman, L. (2009). Vygotsky at work and play. Routledge.
• Holzman, L., & Mendez, R. (2004). Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy. Routledge.
• Holzman, L., & Morss, J. (2014). Postmodern psychologies, societal practice, and political life. Routledge.
• Newman, F., & Holzman, L. (1993). Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary scientist. Psychology Press.
• Newman, F., & Holzman, L. (1997). The end of knowing: A new developmental way of learning. Routledge.

1. ^ "Play Therapy | Psychology Today". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
2. ^ ""Lifetime Achievement" in Cultural Historical Research". Lois Holzman. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
3. ^ The overweight brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world. New York. OCLC 876295962.
4. ^ Holzman, Lois (2016-10-26). Vygotsky at work and play (2nd ed.). Abingdon, Oxon. ISBN 9781138937840. OCLC 952277043.{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ Holzman, Lois (2003). Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203427323.
7. ^ Holzman, Lois; Mendez, Rafael (2005). Psychological investigations: a clinician's guide to social therapy. New York: Brunner-Routledge. ISBN 978-0203010792.
8. ^ Newman, Fred, Holzman, Lois (1993). Lev Vygotsky: revolutionary scientist. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415064415. OCLC 26397665.{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
9. ^ Holzman, Lois (2016). Lev Vygotsky: revolutionary scientist. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138142558. OCLC 941437123.
10. ^ Newman, Fred, Holzman, Lois (1997). The end of knowing: a new developmental way of learning. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0203181935. OCLC 70769024.{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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. doi:10.2307/1165989. JSTOR 1165989. PMID 542205.
12. ^ 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.
13. ^ 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.
14. ^ "East Side Institute » Lois Holzman". eastsideinstitute.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
15. ^ "East Side Institute » About the East Side Institute". eastsideinstitute.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
16. ^ "All Stars Project, Inc". allstars.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
17. ^ "Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids – All Stars Project, Inc". allstars.org. Retrieved 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. doi:10.2307/2295671. JSTOR 2295671.
19. ^ Lois, Holzman (2016-05-06). Schools for growth : radical alternatives to current education models. Abingdon. ISBN 9781135455422. OCLC 949275030.{{[cite book](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fbook "Template:Cite book")}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
20. ^ "Performance of a lifetime".
21. ^ "Home". Performing the World. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
22. ^ "One on One...with Lois Holzman | The Psychologist". thepsychologist.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
23. ^ "Lois Holzman | University of North Carolina at Greensboro". loisholzman.org. Retrieved 2018-11-27.

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