ABSTRACT
The organizations that comprise what is now called the 'development community' are the All Stars Project, Inc. and its youth development programmes, university-style development school (UX) and political theatre (Castillo Theatre). It also includes the East Side Institute for Group and Short-Term Psychotherapy, the research and education centre that is my home; the Social Therapy Group in NYC and social therapy affiliates in other cities; independent voting org; and the bi-annual Performing the World conferences. In the USA 'Critical Psychology', as officially designated, is almost non-existent. In addition to what is formally termed Critical Psychology, however, there are dozens of approaches that critique and challenge, in theory and/or practice, the foundations of mainstream psychology. Some of them are identity-based, ideology-based and epistemology-based. The All Stars Project, Inc. is a US-based non-profit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of youth and poor communities through programmes that are based in the developmental aspects of performance and play.
