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🎭 Play and Performance for Activism

Authors: Lois Holzman, Sylvia Malta, & Valéria L. Carrijo (2024) Published in: Diálogos Vygotskianos, Pontes Editores, Campinas, Brazil Summary: This chapter explores how play and performance can be powerful tools for activism and developmental change, especially in times of crisis. 👉 Read more

 

🧠 Some Challenges of Challenging Psychology

Author: Lois Holzman (2024) Published in: Re: mind magazine, Tokyo, Vol. 1 No. 1 Summary: Holzman outlines the complexities of disrupting conventional psychology and proposes a radically humanistic and developmental alternative. 👉 Read more

 

😊 The Joy of Dementia

Authors: Mary Fridley & Susan Massad (2021) Published in: The Applied Improvisation Mindset (Dudeck & McClure, Eds.) Summary: A revolutionary perspective on dementia that centers joy, creativity, and community instead of loss and decline. 👉 Read more

 

🌍 Medicine Across Borders: The Subjectivity of Health and Healing

Author: Dr. Susan Massad (2021) Summary: This piece challenges Western medical models by exploring the social and cultural dimensions of healing through a performative, cross-border lens. 👉 Read more

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