Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its expert knowledge to turn social marginalism into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, race, class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender Identity Clinics, from mothering magazines to mental health services. Far from documenting just the damage, this book identifies the ways...
Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its expert knowledge ...
What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology. Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, "race," class and sexuality are reproduced by psychological practices: from self-help books to special hospitals, from school exclusions to Gender...
What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitio...
