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...

Showcases the value of professional work with young people as it is practiced in diverse forms, and in locations from around the world.