Handbook of Critical Psychology

495 Pages·2015·2.603 MB·English

by  Ian Parker

Handbook of
Critical Psychology
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 sys-
tematically 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 practition-
ers 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 dis-
course analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory.
Ian Parker was co-founder and is co-director of the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com),
and is Professor of Management at the University of Leicester, and Managing Editor of Annual
Review of Critical Psychology. He edited the four-volume major work ‘Critical Psychology’ for
Routledge in 2011, edits the book series ‘Concepts for Critical Psychology’, and also authored
the ‘Psychology after Critique’ series.
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Handbook of
Critical Psychology
Edited by Ian Parker
First published 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Handbook of critical psychology / edited by Ian Parker.
pages cm
1. Critical psychology. I. Parker, Ian, 1956–
BF39.9.H36 2015
150.19'8—dc23
2014042679
ISBN: 978-1-84872-218-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-31572-652-6 (ebk)
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Contents
List of Contributors xi
Introduction: principles and positions 1
Ian Parker
PART I
Varieties of psychology and critique 11
PART Ia
The mainstream 13
1 Quantitative methods: science means and ends 15
Lisa Cosgrove, Emily E. Wheeler, and Elena Kosterina
2 Cognitive psychology: from the bourgeois individual to class struggle 24
Michael Arfken
3 Behaviourisms: radical behaviourism and critical inquiry 33
Maria R. Ruiz
4 Emotion: being moved beyond the mainstream 43
Paul Stenner
5 Biological and evolutionary psychologies: the limits of critical psychology 52
John Cromby
6 Personality: technology, commodity and pathology 61
China Mills
7 Developmental psychology: the turn to deconstruction 70
Erica Burman
8 Social psychology: a commentary on organizational research 79
Parisa Dashtipour
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9 Abnormal psychology: a psychology of disorders 88
Susana Seidmann and Jorgelina Di Iorio
10 Forensic psychology: clinical and critical 96
Sam Warner
PART Ib
Radical attempts to question the mainstream 105
11 Qualitative methods: critical practices and prospects from a diverse field 107
Brendan Gough
12 Theoretical psychology: a critical-philosophical outline of core issues 117
Thomas Teo
13 Humanistic psychology: a critical counter culture 127
Keith Tudor
14 Political psychology: critical approaches to power 137
Maritza Montero
15 Community psychology: subjectivity, power, collectivity 145
David Fryer and Rachael Fox
16 Organizational psychology and social issues: the place of the place 155
Mary Jane Paris Spink and Peter Kevin Spink
17 Counselling psychology: critical achievements, possibilities, and limitations 164
Richard House and Colin Feltham
18 Health psychology: towards critical psychologies for well-being
and social justice 173
Yasuhiro Igarashi
19 Black psychology: resistance, reclamation, and redefinition 182
Garth Stevens
20 Psychology of women: questions of politics and practice 191
Rose Capdevila and Lisa Lazard
21 From ‘lesbian and gay psychology’ to a critical psychology of sexualities 200
Pam Alldred and Nick Fox
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PART Ic
Adjacent parts of psy-complex 211
22 Alienists and alienation: critical psychiatry in search of itself 213
Janice Haaken
23 Psychotherapists: agents of change or maintenance men? 222
Ole Jacob Madsen
24 Education and psychology: change at last? 231
Tom Billington and Tony Williams
25 Social work: oppression and resistance 240
Suryia Nayak
26 Self-help: and pop psychology 250
Jan De Vos
PART II
Varieties of critical psychology 259
27 Activity theory: theory and practice 261
Manolis Dafermos
28 Marxist psychology and dialectical method 271
Mohamed Elhammoumi
29 Kritische Psychologie: psychology from the standpoint of the subject 280
Johanna Motzkau and Ernst Schraube
30 Does psychoanalysis have anything to say to critical psychology? 290
Kareen Ror Malone with Emaline Friedman
31 Deconstruction: the foundations of critical psychology 297
Andrew Clark and Alexa Hepburn
32 Deleuzian perspectives: schizoanalysis and the politics of desire 306
Hans Skott-Myhre
33 Discursive psychology: key tenets, some splits, and two examples 315
Margaret Wetherell
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PART III
Standpoints and perspectives on psychology
and critical psychology 325
PART IIIa
Perspectives 327
34 Feminist psychology: researches, interventions, challenges 329
Amana Mattos
35 Queer theory: disarticulating critical psychology 339
Miguel Roselló Peñaloza and Teresa Cabruja Ubach
36 Liberation psychology: another kind of critical psychology 348
Mark Burton and Luis H. Gómez Ordóñez
37 Indigenous psychologies and critical-emancipatory psychology 356
Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, Ma. Ana Babaran-Diaz, Ma. Nancy B. Florendo,
and Tala Salinas-Ramos with S. Lily Mendoza
38 Postcolonial theory: towards a worlding of critical psychology 366
Desmond Painter
39 From critical disability studies to critical global disability studies 376
Shaun Grech
40 A politically informed immanent spirituality for critical psychology 386
Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre
PART IIIb
Places 395
41 Critical psychology in Africa: the impossible task 397
Ingrid Palmary and Brendon Barnes
42 Critical psychology and the American continent: from colonization and
domination to liberation and emancipation 406
Raquel S. L. Guzzo
43 Critical psychology in the Arab world: insights from critical community
psychology in the Palestinian colonial context 415
Ibrahim Makkawi
44 ‘Critical psychology in Asia’: four fundamental concepts 425
Anup Dhar
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45 European critical psychological trends: an open road to
psychological recidivism 434
Ángel J. Gordo López and Roberto Rodríguez López
46 South Pacific: tensions of space in our place 444
Leigh Coombes and Mandy Morgan
Index 455
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