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Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, providing a definitive state-of-the-art account of the field and an opening to the lines of argument that will take it forward in the years to come.
The individual chapters by leading and emerging scholars plot the development of a critical perspective on different elements of the host discipline of psychology. The book begins by systematically addressing each separate specialist area of psychology, before going on to consider how aspects of critical psychology transcend the divisions that mark the discipline. The final part of the volume explores the variety of cultural and political standpoints that have made critical psychology such a vibrant contested terrain of debate.
The Handbook of Critical Psychology represents a key resource for researchers and practitioners across all relevant disciplines. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in psychology, psychosocial studies, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies, and to discourse analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory.
1. Introduction Ian Parker Part I: Varieties of Psychology and Critique: Part 1a: The Mainstream 2. Quantitative Methods: Science Means and Ends Lisa Cosgrove, Emily E. Wheeler and Elena Kosterina 3. Cognitive Psychology: From the Bourgeois Individual to Class Struggle Michael Arfken 4. Behaviourisms: Radical Behaviourism and Critical Inquiry Maria R. Ruiz 5. Emotion: Being Moved Beyond the Mainstream Paul Stenner 6. Biological and Evolutionary Psychologies: The Limits of Critical Psychology John Cromby 7. Personality: Technology, Commodity and Pathology China Mills 8. Developmental Psychology: The Turn to Deconstruction Erica Burman 9. Social Psychology: A Commentary on Organizational Research Parisa Dashtipour 10. Abnormal Psychology: A Psychology of Disorders Susana Seidmann and Jorgelina Di Iorio 11. Forensic Psychology: Clinical and Critical Sam Warner Part Ib: Radical Attempts To Question the Mainstream 12. Qualitative Methods: Critical Practices and Prospects from a Diverse Field Brendan Gough 13. Theoretical Psychology: A Critical-Philosophical Outline of Core Issues Thomas Teo 14. Humanistic Psychology: A Critical Counter Culture Keith Tudor 15. Political Psychology: Critical Approaches to Power Maritza Montero 16. Community Psychology: Subjectivity, Power, Collectivity David Fryer and Rachael Fox 17. Organizational Psychology and Social Issues: The Place of the Place Mary Jane Paris Spink and Peter Kevin Spink 18. Counselling Psychology: Critical Achievements, Possibilities and Limitations Richard House and Colin Feltham 19. Health Psychology: Towards Critical Psychologies for Well-Being and Social Justice Yasuhiro Igarashi 20. Black Psychology: Resistance, Reclamation and Redefinition Garth Stevens 21. Psychology of Women: Questions of Politics and Practice Rose Capdevila and Lisa Lazard 22. From ‘Lesbian And Gay Psychology’ To A Critical Psychology Of Sexualities Pam Alldred and Nick Fox Part Ic: Adjacent Parts of Psy-Complex 23. Alienists and Alienation: Critical Psychiatry In Search Of Itself Janice Haaken 24. Psychotherapists: Agents of Change or Maintenance Men? Ole Jacob Madsen 25. Education, Psychology: Change At Last? Tom Billington and Tony Williams 26. Social Work: Oppression and Resistance Suryia Nayak 27. Self-Help: And Pop Psychology Jan De Vos Part II: Varieties of Critical Psychology 28. Activity Theory: Theory and Practice Manolis Dafermos 29. Marxist Psychology and Dialectical Method Mohamed Elhammoumi 30. Kritische Psychologie: Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject Johanna Motzkau and Ernst Schraube 31. Does Psychoanalysis Have Anything To Say To Critical Psychology? Kareen Ror Malone with Emaline Friedman 32. Deconstruction: The Foundations of Critical Psychology Andrew Clark and Alexa Hepburn 33. Deleuzian Perspectives: Schizoanalysis and the Politics of Desire Hans Skott-Myhre 34. Discursive Psychology: Key Tenets, Some Splits and Two Examples Margaret Wetherell Part III: Standpoints And Perspectives On Psychology And Critical Psychology: Part Iiia: Perspectives 35. Feminist Psychology: Researches, Interventions, Challenges Amana Mattos 36. Queer Theory: Disarticulating Critical Psychology Miguel Roselló Peñaloza and Teresa Cabruja Ubach 37. Liberation Psychology: Another Kind Of Critical Psychology Mark Burton and Luis Gómez 38. Indigenous Psychologies and Critical-Emancipatory Psychology Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, Ma. Ana Babaran-Diaz, Ma. Nancy B. Florendo and Tala Salinas-Ramos with S. Lily Mendoza 39. Postcolonial Theory: Towards A Worlding of Critical Psychology Desmond Painter 40. From Critical Disability Studies To Critical Global Disability Studies Shaun Grech 41. A Politically Informed Immanent Spirituality for Critical Psychology Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre Part IIIb: Places 42. Critical Psychology in Africa: The Impossible Task Ingrid Palmary and Brendon Barnes 43. Political Psychology and the American Continent: From Colonization and Domination to Liberation and Emancipation Raquel S. L. Guzzo 44. Critical Psychology in the Arab World: Insights from Critical Community Psychology in the Palestinian Colonial Context Ibrahim Makkawi 45. ‘Critical Psychology in Asia’: Four Fundamental Concepts Anup Dhar 46. European Critical Psychological Trends: An Open Road to Psychological Recidivism Ángel J. Gordo López and Roberto Rodríguez López 47. South Pacific: Tensions of Space in Our Place Leigh Coombes and Mandy Morgan
