Lois Holzman is a cofounder with Fred Newman of the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy and the Institute's current director. She is a leading proponent of cultural approaches to learning, development and psychotherapy. Fred Newman is a controversial philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist. ...
Trained as a Developmental Psychologist at Columbia University and at the prestigious Rockefeller University Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at Rockefeller University run by the Vygotsky scholar Michael Cole, Holzman is an expert in the writings of Lev Vygotsky and has made Vygotsky relevant to the fields of psychotherapy, education and organizational development. Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ... Lev Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 (O.S.)), 1896—June 11, 1934) was a Russian developmental psychologist, discovered by the Western world in the 1960s. ... Lev Vygotsky Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (Лев Семенович ВыготÑкий) (November 17 (November 5 Old Style), 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet developmental psychologist and the founder of the Cultural-historical psychology. ... Lev Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 (O.S.)), 1896—June 11, 1934) was a Russian developmental psychologist, discovered by the Western world in the 1960s. ...
Holzman served on the faculty of Empire State College, SUNY, and was the director of the Barbara Taylor School.
Holzman is a leading methodologist of Social Therapy, an approach to human development and learning created by Fred Newman and has been Newman’s chief collaborator since the 1970’s. She is considered the leading expert on Newman’s work and on Social Therapy, having published 9 books and dozens of academic articles on social therapeutic methodology. Social therapy is an activity-theoretic practice developed outside of academia at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. ... Fred Newman is a controversial philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist. ... Social therapy is an activity-theoretic practice developed outside of academia at the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. ...
Holzman's Books
Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind
Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models
Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (with Fred Newman)
Psychological Investigations: A Clinician’s Guide to Social Therapy (with Rafael Mendez)
Newman and Holzman's reformulation of Vygotskyan psychology, centering around the notions of 'tool and result', 'the practice of method', and 'completion', are, like their later attempts to criticize and find practice-based alternatives to scientific psychology, and even to epistemology in general, thought-provoking and relevant.
Newman and Holzman assert that the zone of proximal development was the uniquely human psychological unit of study, which is actually a social-historical unit, the unity of learning and development.
Newman and Holzman explain that the development community is concerned neither with the objective study of subjectivity nor with the subjective study of objectivity, but merely interested in discovering-in practice-a logic of development.
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