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.
12 Facts About Lois Holzman
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Lois Holzman is known for her research and work on play therapy, social therapy, and criticism of the medical model of mental health.
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Lois Holzman was instrumental in introducing the ideas of Lev Vygotsky to the fields of psychotherapy, organizational and community development.
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In 2014, Holzman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.
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Lois 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, Vygotsky at work and play, Performing psychology: A postmodern culture of the mind, and Psychological investigations: A clinician's guide to social therapy.
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Lois Holzman received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Rhode Island College in 1967.
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Lois Holzman continued her education studying Linguistics at Columbia University and Brown University.
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Lois Holzman completed her PhD in Development Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1977.
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Lois Holzman visited the Institute of Psychology in Moscow in 1980 to study the work of Vygotsky and his followers.
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In 1985, Lois Holzman and Fred Newman founded the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, which promotes humanistic approaches to psychotherapy.
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Lois Holzman was involved in the development of educational programming at the Barbara Taylor School and Performance of a Lifetime.
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Lois Holzman is the chair and chief organizer of the Performing the World bi-annual conference, which supports performance activism and emerging social change.