Psychology After the Crisis: Scientific paradigms and political debate [Hardcover]

Introduction: Psychology after the Crisis 1. Critical Psychology and Critical Practice in Britain 2. Discursive resources in the Discourse Unit 3. Critical Psychology and Revolutionary Marxism 4. Remembering Mao 5. Universities are Not a Good Place for Psychotherapy and Counselling Training 6. Global Change: Micro-Climates of Social Development, Adaption and Behaviour 7. This World Demands our Attention

Psychology After the Crisis is the first volume in the Psychology After Critique series. The book reviews the significance of debates over methodological paradigms in social psychology, and sets the scene for the emergence of contemporary critical psychology.

'This series is the comprehensive resource we have been waiting for to enable new generations of budding psychologists, and all those who concern themselves with how we might live, to find their way to a just appreciation of what it might be to understand the myriad ways a human being can be a person among persons.'  Rom Harr?, Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK, and the Psychology Department, Georgetown University, USA

This volume usefully brings together a diverse range of previously published influential papers from a unique, provocative and inspiring voice in critical psychology. The focus is on critical trends in theory and method following the crisis in psychology, with Parker reiterating the value of Marxism, Feminism, Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis throughout, while also highlighting various risks, traps and limits to apparently critical projects (e.g. discourse analysis). A highly recommended collection from a leading international scholar-activist.'  Brendan Gough, School of Social, Psychological & Communication Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK