Performing Psychology

Lois Holzman is Director of Educational Programs at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Among her publications are Schools for Growth:Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models (1997) and The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way ofLearning, with Fred Newman (Routledge, 1996).

"Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of Mind is a rather unusual hybrid of various strands of critical psychology, including an unusual form of therapy combined with arguments about the nature of performance." -- APA Review of Books

• Introduction 5; Life Upon the Wicked Stage; Life As Performance (Can You Practice Psychology If There’s Nothing That’s “Really” Going On?); Diagnosis: The Human Cost of the Rage to Order; Beyond Narrative to Performed Conversation (“In the Beginning” Comes Much Later); A Therapeutic Deconstruction of the Illusion of Self Science ; Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-called Science Wars; The Story of Truth (A Whodunit) or Philosophie dans la Théâtre; Twenty-Two Weeks of Pointless Conversation; What Is to Be Dead? (Philosophical Scenes