Critical Psychology: Voices for Change

ISBN-13: 9780333794531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str.

T. Sloan

Opis

Critical Psychology collects the thoughts and experiences of psychologists from around the world who have come to challenge the dominant frameworks and practices of their discipline. In twenty hard-hitting chapters, scholar/activists develop critiques of psychology's scientism and individualism, and argue for a reinvention of psychology as a discipline committed to the struggle against social injustice and oppression.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- Contributors.- Editor's Introduction.- Of Rainbows and Differences; E.Sampson.- Critical Psychology in the Mainstream: A Struggle for Survival; J.M.Ussher.- The Critical Psychology Project: Transforming Society and Transforming Psychology; D. Fox.- Practising Critical Psychology Within a British Psychology Department; W.Hollway.- Reflecting On Who We Are in a Technological World; E. Schraube.- In Praise of Unclean Things: Critical Psychology, Diversity and Disruption; S.Frosh.- Bridging Agency, Theory, and Action: Critical Links in Critical Psychology; I.Prilleltensky.- Reflections on Critical Psychology: Psychology of Memory and Forgetting; E.Lira.- Critical Psychology: A Sub-Saharan African Voice; B.Nsamenang.- Connection With Difference: Being Critical in a Postmodern World; J.Morss.- Critical Psychology, Subjectivity, and the Politics of a Lost Signifier; K.Ror Malone.- A Central American Voice; I.Dobles.- Critical Psychology as Critical Vision; E.O'Sullivan.- Critically Speaking: 'Is it Critical?'; Discourse Unit.- To Overturn all Circumstances in Which the Human is a Degraded, a Subjugated, a Forsaken, a Contemptible Being; T.Teo.- 'Is Doing Good Just Enough?' Enabling Practice in a Disabling Discipline; N.Drew, C.Sonn, B. Bishop, N.Contos.- My Postmodern Path to a Critical Psychology; L.Shawver.- Thinking Critically About Psychology; J.Kaye.- Critical Psychology or Critique of Psychology?; Colectivo Contrapsicologico Esquicie.- The Critical Psychology of Everyday Life; B.Duarte Esgalhado.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

TOD SLOAN is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the author of Life Choices and Damaged Life.

See attached list of contributors.

Blurb

What does critical psychology mean?
How and why have many psychologists come to think of themselves as critical psychologists?

The field of psychology presents itself in textbooks as a collection of scientific findings on human behaviour. Differences of theoretical orientation are acknowledged, but the voices of those who have fundamental questions about the entire enterprise of psychology are excluded. Critical Psychology: Voices for Change lends an ear to individuals around the world who argue for a radical transformation of psychology. Their reasons are multiple, but in general they demonstrate that psychology's theories, methods and practices contribute to the maintenance of a social order characterised by oppression, domination, inequality, and injustice. They envision a psychology that would participate actively in the construction of a just society.

Twenty contributors give fascinating personal accounts of the intellectual, cultural, and political journeys that led them to advocate various forms of what is coming to be known as critical psychology. They examine basic principles, suggest strategies for transforming mainstream psychology, and analyse contemporary social problems. This is essential reading for anyone who cares about the ethical use of psychological ideas, research methods, and interventions.

The editor

Tod Sloan is Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology, University of Tulsa. He is the author of Life Choices and Damaged Life.

The contributors

Brian Bishop, members of the Colectivo Contrapsicológico Esquicie (Barcelona), Natalie Contos, Ignacio Dobles, Neil Drew, members of the Discourse Unit (Manchester), Barbara Duarte Esgalhado, Dennis Fox, Stephen Frosh, Wendy Hollway, Elizabeth Lira, Bame Nsamenang, John Morss, Edmund O'Sullivan, Isaac Prilleltensky, Edward E Sampson, Ernst Schraube, Lois Shawyer, Christopher Sonn, Tod Sloan, Thomas Teo, Jane Ussher

All royalties from the sale of this book are being paid to the Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights