Psychology After Deconstruction: Erasure and social reconstruction [Hardcover]

Introduction: Psychology after Deconstruction 1. Qualitative Data and the Subjectivity of Objective Facts 2. Critical Reflexive Humanism and Critical Constructionist Psychology 3. Deconstructing Accounts 4. Constructions, Reconstructions and Deconstructions of Mental Health 5. Deconstruction and Psychotherapy 6. Deconstructing Diagnosis: Psychopathological Practice 7. Deconstruction, Psychopathology and Dialectics 8. Lacanian Social Theory and Clinical Practice

This book reviews the significance of deconstruction for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how deconstructive approaches question underlying assumptions in psychology about language and reality, the self and the social world.

'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

In a brilliant and sobering analysis, Parker uncovers the way that modern psychological discourse embeds a system of oppression and exploitation into the very structure of human subjectivity. His provocative synthesis of Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism lays the groundwork for a radical humanism capable of interrogating the networks of power and the possibilities of resistance at the heart of modern institutional existence.  Michael Arfken, Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Over the last three decades Ian Parker has consistently proved to be one of the most thoughtful scholc(