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Side Institute News Brief—November 2003
Lois
Holzman and Stanka Nestorovic Present to Psychologists in the
Former Yugoslavia on Social Therapy and Postmodern Psychology
November,
2003 -- Institute Director Lois Holzman and social therapist
Stanka Nestorovic traveled to the former Yugoslavia to make a
series of invited presentations on social therapy and postmodern
psychology.
Nestorovic – who emigrated to the US from the former Yugoslavia
– was an invited speaker at the University of Belgrade's
Institute for Psychiatry. A featured presenter at the 32nd Annual
Educational Symposia, "Dilemmas and Prospects for Psychiatry
in the New Epoch," she shared her evolution as a social
therapist and her enthusiasm for a postmodern approach to human
development.
Reporting on the symposium,
the Belgrade newspaper, The Politic, commented, "Social
Therapy Is Becoming a Hit," citing the approach as "the
most revolutionary response to the inability of academic psychology
to solve the problems of contemporary man."
At the same time as Nestorovic was in Belgrade, Institute Director
Lois Holzman was presenting at the University of Banja Luka in
Bosnia-Herzegovina at a series of symposia for faculty and students
at the Faculty of Philosophy. At a symposium entitled Learning
for Development (a Postmodern Psychological Approach to Development)
Holzman shared the social therapeutic understanding of group and
emotionality. Other presenters included Gordana Jovanovic, Volker
Bunzendahl, Bojana Skorc and Lina Unkovska -- psychologists who
have become friends and colleagues of the Institute through ongoing
collaborative work.
The symposium was organized by Jovan Savic, a professor in the
Psychology Department and a key organizer of Zdravo da Ste, a
community-building project that has trained hundreds of psychologists,
social workers and educators to bring innovative developmental
learning activities to children and adults in the former Yugoslavia.
After this event Holzman joined Savic and members of Zdravo da
Ste on their annual retreat.
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