This book represents the first attempt to historicise and theorise appeals for `relevance' in psychology. It argues that the persistence of questions about the `relevance' of psychology derives from the discipline's terminal inability to define its subject matter, its reliance on a socially disinterested science to underwrite its knowledge claims, and its consequent failure to address itself to the needs of a rapidly changing world. The chapters go on to consider the `relevance' debate within South African psychology, by critically analysing discourse of forty-five presidential,...