Critical Psychology

Angles, Arguments, Activism
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-39368-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Concepts for Critical Psychology

What is critical psychology? How does it operate in relation to the theory and practice of the psy complex? Why is Marxism a valuable resource to conceptualise and challenge psychology?

Detailed analysis of the ‘psy complex’ enables us to conceptualise the way academic and professional practice operates, and this is accompanied by situating the way psychology operates in contemporary culture, exploring the role of ‘psychologisation’. Psychologisation takes place in a number of ways that are problematic for those of us who aim to change the world and, crucially, know that another world is only possible if people are actively engaged in changing social conditions themselves.

This introduction to critical psychology is from many intersecting standpoints and provides arguments to different kinds of audience inside and outside the discipline. It connects with practice, with interventions in tune with a sceptical anti-psychological politically-charged understanding of what we need to change if we are to change ourselves.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Concepts for Critical Psychology series preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Knowledge production and practice

Part I: Angles on the psy complex

1. Autoethnography of psychology as education

2. Applied psychology as consent and adaptation

3. Decolonising psychology’s maps and territories

4. Psychiatric diagnoses and alternatives

5. Therapeutic discourse as psychologisation

Part II: Arguments as dialectical critique

6. Dialectical methodological critique

7. Eleven theses on subjectivity and realism in psychology

8. Capitalism and psychotherapy

Part III: Activism for anti-psychology

9. Nationalism as enclosure

10. Climates of anxiety

11. Cis-realism and cis-psychology

12. Solidarity in times of genocide

References

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Parker is co-founder of the Discourse Unit and Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, author and editor of numerous books and articles about critical psychology, an anti-psychologist and revolutionary Marxist.