Fred Newman is Director of Training, East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy and Artistic Director, Castillo Theatre, New York., Lois Holzman is Director, Center for Developmental Learning at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy. Between them they have written nine books and numerous chapters and journal articles.

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The epistemological bias; Chapter 3 Radically reforming modern epistemology; Chapter 4 Deliberately unsystematic thoughts on a new way of running a country; Chapter 5 A community of conversations;