Lois Holzman

Lois Holzman
BornJune 14, 1946
OccupationTherapist
AwardsLifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural-Historical Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (2014)
Academic background
Alma materRhode Island College, Columbia University
Academic work
InstitutionsEast Side Institute, New York, NY

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]

  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}}: 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}}: 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}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)