This major book offers a comprehensive overview of key debates on subjectivity and the subject in psychological theory and practice. In addition to social construction's long engagement with social relations, this volume addresses questions of the body, technology, intersubjectivity, writing and investigative practices.

Provides an overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis, and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructionist theory. Each chapter analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of a wide range of issues, including anxiety, the family and ageing.

Drawing on the work of Wittgenstein, Marx and Foucault (among others) this study presents various dimensions of the debate on the self, identity and subjectivity, examining the senses in which we are "social selves" whose identities are bound up with our s