Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power [Paperback]

This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Coll?ge de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods.Introduction 'Disciplinarity' Desubstantializing Power Discourse, Knowledge, Materiality, History Foucault's Philosophy of the Event: Genealogical Method Space, Discourse, Power: Heterotopia as Analytics Governmentality Index

'Psychology has been flirting with Foucault for almost as long as Foucault flirted with Psychology. Derek Hook's wonderful book explains why critical psychology should properly engage and gives us the tools to do so. Drawing on Foucault's recently available articles, his classic works and psychoanalytic theory, Hook offers major new analyses of spatiality, identity, racism, affective technologies and politicised subjectivities. The line of argument is brilliantly elaborated, bold and clear. Highly recommended.' Margie Wetherell, Professor of Social Psychology, Open University, UK

'This groundbreaking book provides an impassioned argument for Foucault that also locates the work in current debates in social and political theory. Hook's lucid writing has an urgency that draws the reader into a journey through theoretical debates that also makes them come alive as it addresses key political questions. This book combines elaboration and application in measures that will leave the reader with a thirst for more of the real critical-political Michel Foucault and admiration for an author who has at last shown us how to find him.' - Ian Parker, Professor of Psychology, Discourse Unit, Manchester, UK

'This book is an exercise in theoretical excavation in which Hook develops a series of provocative arguments - developed between Foucault and psychoanalysis - about the opelÒ