Lois Holzman's New Book!


Lois Holzman, Ph.D. (psychology) has a new book just out, "Performing 
Psychology:  A Postmodern Culture of the Mind" (Routledge 1999)

In Performing Psychology, Lois Holzman has collected essays and stage plays
by and about Fred Newman, the controversial and visionary American 
philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist.  The
reader is invited into dialogues currently taking place among psychologists, 
philosphers, artists and community activists on such diverse topics as the 
nature of human subjectivity; the relationship of theatre to human 
development; the status of traditional science in the postmodern world; the
process of therapy and diagnosis; and the  re-initiation of creativity and 
growth.  More than an academic critique, Performing Psychology offers a 
methodology for understanding human life.   
 
Mary Gergen has this to say about Performing Psychology:  "
 

If you think  psychology has reached the edge of the envelope, think again.  Fred Newman, innovator, performer, and intellectual iconoclast opens new worlds.  This
is an exciting collection from one of America's most innovative, irreverent, and insightful psychologists.