Handbook of Critical Psychology

Ian Parker, Ian Parker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317537175
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, providing a definitive state-of-the-art account of the field and an opening to the lines of argument that will take it forward in the years to come.

The individual chapters by leading and emerging scholars plot the development of a critical perspective on different elements of the host discipline of psychology. The book begins by systematically addressing each separate specialist area of psychology, before going on to consider how aspects of critical psychology transcend the divisions that mark the discipline. The final part of the volume explores the variety of cultural and political standpoints that have made critical psychology such a vibrant contested terrain of debate.

The Handbook of Critical Psychology represents a key resource for researchers and practitioners across all relevant disciplines. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in psychology, psychosocial studies, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies, and to discourse analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory.

Index

• abnormal psychology: the ethical-political dimension in psychology 93–4
  • on normal vs. abnormal 88–9
  • resistance of the abnormal 92–3
  • on social construction of the diagnostic criteria 89–2
• abuse: of abuse 285
  • childhood 66, 102, 204, 284–5
  • of human rights 242
  • in the lives of prisoners 98, 100–2
  • physical 39, 56
  • of power 172, 236
  • of psychology 174, 361
  • sexual 56, 66, 98, 102, 204, 218, 284–5
  • spouse 39
  • substance 98, 184, 255, 422
• academic communities 120–1, 151, 319, 423
• academic psychology 168, 196, 252–3, 301, 366, 371, 373, 415, 417, 422, 432
• accountability 150, 245, 392
• ACT UP 339
• action psychology 438
• action research 5–6, 111–12, 151, 177, 214, 351
• activism and activists: community 108, 151, 235, 422
  • decolonization 368
  • emancipatory disability 151
  • feminist 329, 331
  • grassroots 416
  • Intifada 419
  • liberation 411
  • mental health 219
  • political 160, 206, 446
  • psychologists as 156
  • queer 339
  • researchers as 286
  • social 169, 391
  • spiritual 390
  • transdisciplinary 152
• activities and activity: cultural, social, and historical dimensions of 263
  • mental vs. social 28
  • situated 267
  • social 155
  • three-level structure of 264
• activity theory: conclusions 267–8
  • from a critical psychology perspective 266–7
  • cultural-historical 265–6, 271, 272
  • definitions and sources 261–3
  • in European psychology 439
  • in Russian psychology 435, 438
  • socio-cultural 234, 280
  • versions of 263–5, 274
• actualization 128, 206, 291, 390self-actualization
• Addelston, Judi 196
• addiction treatment 255, 284
• ADHD 228
• Adler, Alfred 131
• adolescence: Erikson’s description of 333
  • in human development 88
  • myth of 252
• adolescents: and freedom 335–6
  • identity in 332
  • intersex and transgender 196
  • pregnancy and 397
• Adorno, Theodor W. 64, 123, 146, 235, 256
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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction Principles and positions
• Varieties of psychology and critique
• The mainstream
• Radical attempts to question the mainstream
• Adjacent parts of psy-complex
• Varieties of critical psychology
• Standpoints and perspectives on psychology and critical psychology
• Perspectives
• Places
• Index