Critical Psychology

This book reviews the significance of discourse analysis for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how discursive approaches question underlying assumptions commonly made about the nature of ‘thinking’ and ‘behaviour’ in the discipline...

Psychology after Lacan reviews the significance of Jacques Lacan’s work for a new generation of psychologists, and explores the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for the discipline of psychology and some of its key assumptions. Written from a psychology perpsective, the accounts of different a..

Psychology after Psychoanalysis reviews the significance of psychoanalysis for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how Freud’s work questions underlying assumptions made about the nature of the individual and the social world in the discipline. The book shows how psychoanalysis rests on a n..

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 volume explores Freudian and Lacanian accounts of the unconscious and the debates surrounding them and examines their consequences for psychological and cultural research...

Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be called..

Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be called..

This is the first book to align black feminist theory with critical psychology, and address the political implications of doing so. It will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers, and practitioners in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, mental health, and social work..

Radical Inclusive Education draws on work in disability studies, critical psychology and critical pedagogy to challenge current educational policies and practices, particularly those which address disabled students and students with special educational needs (SEN). In doing so it aims to offer alter..

Radical Inclusive Education draws on work in disability studies, critical psychology and critical pedagogy to challenge current educational policies and practices, particularly those which address disabled students and students with special educational needs (SEN). In doing so it aims to offer alter..

Drawing on ideas from sociology, politics, anthropology and law as well as psychology, this book shows how abortion is linked to sexual behaviour and motherhood in the complex web of gender and power relations...

This book offers a unique critique of socio-cultural constructions of pregnancy and the ways in which it is represented in contemporary culture...