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Ian Parker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Psychology as cultural historical Psychology political dimensions and limitations of psychological knowledge
    2020
    Co-Authors: Ian Parker
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    This chapter explores the connection between the theory and practice of Critical Psychology, focusing upon the critique of essentialism, individualism and universalism of mainstream social Psychology and laying the basis for an approach to politics and justice working in and against the discipline. I argue in this chapter that contemporary ‘Critical Psychology’ is always already necessarily social and that as a form of Critical cultural-historical Psychology, it is always already necessarily political. This political nature of cultural-historical Psychology needs to be clarified, however, and to be contrasted with the ways in which ‘politics’ is sometimes understood in ‘community Psychology’. In this chapter I address questions of ‘alienation’, the ways Critical Psychology configures itself as a response to mainstream Psychology as an ideological warrant for capitalism. I describe emerging areas of research in Critical Psychology, taking the particular example of Critical Psychology in Britain to illustrate the opportunities and dangers to our concern with social justice as intimately linked with anti-capitalist struggle.

  • Critical Psychology what it is and what it is not
    Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2007
    Co-Authors: Ian Parker
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    Critical Psychology alerts us to the limitations of mainstream research in the discipline, and it promises to put ‘social’ issues on the agenda in the whole of Psychology. A starting point of the stance of Critical psychological research is that the claims that psychologists make about human beings often seem to vanish almost as quickly as they are discovered. People, a group or culture do not behave or think like the model would predict, and, more importantly, we find that our awareness, our reflection on a process described by a psychologist changes that process. It is in the nature of human nature to change, to change as different linguistic resources, social practices, and representations of the self become available, and for human nature to change itself as people reflect on who they are and who they may become. That means that any attempt to fix us in place must fail. But it will only fail in such a way that something productive emerges from it if we do something different, and one place to do something different is in Psychology. We need to step back and look at the images of the self, mind and behaviour that psychologists have produced, the types of practices they engage in, and the power those practices, those ‘technologies of the self’ have to set limits on change. When we appreciate this, we can start to look at what psychologists might do instead as part of a genuinely Critical approach.

  • Critical discursive Psychology
    2002
    Co-Authors: Ian Parker
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    Introduction: Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (and their reverse) Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context Against Relativism in Psychology: On Balance Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A Critical THEORETICAL RESOURCE Discursive Psychology Uncut Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions PART III: Critical DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture Constructing and Deconstructing Therapeutic Discourse Critical Reflections

Michelle Fine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • resuscitating Critical Psychology for revolting times
    Journal of Social Issues, 2012
    Co-Authors: Michelle Fine
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    Playing with the doubled use of the term “revolting”—as an adjective to describe the repulsive inequality gaps that litter the globe and as a delightful gerund to capture the thrilling days of global collective protest—this Lewin address muses about social Psychology's debt in politically difficult times of massive inequality and sustained oppression. I venture back to the 1930s for inspiration, reviewing the writings of Lewin, Jahoda, and Dollard, as well as the research of W.E.B. Du Bois in the early 1900s and Ignacio Martin-Baro toward the latter part of the 1900s, to understand how social psychologists have intervened theoretically and empirically to contest injustice, inspire solidarity, and advance more just social arrangements. Calling for research that both documents the collateral damage of neoliberalism and generates alternative visions of democracy and justice, the second half of the article sketches a Critical participatory action research project conducted with urban youth, which was designed to challenge both the strategic disinvestment in the public sphere and the concomitant conservatizing pressures on our methods of social inquiry, raising questions about “evidence-based practice” and the current marketing of Randomized Clinical Trials as the “gold standard.”

  • a wrinkle in time tracing a legacy of public science through community self surveys and participatory action research
    Journal of Social Issues, 2011
    Co-Authors: Maria Elena Torre, Michelle Fine
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    Community self-surveys, popularized by Margot Haas Wormser and Claire Selltiz in the 1950s, brought together diverse community groups to examine racial injustice in their local contexts. A precursor to contemporary participatory action research, the self survey method provides evidence of SPSSI's long history of “engaged scholarship.” In this article, we resurrect this history and connect it to contemporary research in Critical Psychology that shares commitments to participation, methodological complexity, expanded notions of “expertise,” as well as social and political relevance.

  • class notes toward a Critical Psychology of class and schooling
    Journal of Social Issues, 2003
    Co-Authors: Michelle Fine, April Burns
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    In this epilogue, we offer a theoretical mapping of notions that have emerged across the articles in this issue of the Journal of Social Issues specifically dedicated to questions of social class. Social class is often included within the "race, class, gender, and sexual orientation" mantra of feminist and Critical race work in Psychology, but rarely scrutinized with rigor or serious scholarship. Thus, for the purposes of this epilogue, we theorize the relationship between the material, social, psychological, and the political. We identify four theoretical venues through which these researchers have opened a conversation about class and schooling: ideology, institutions, contradictions and consciousness, and method. We conclude by crafting a research agenda for a Critical Psychology of class and schooling.

Thomas Teo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Psychology a geography of intellectual engagement and resistance
    American Psychologist, 2015
    Co-Authors: Thomas Teo
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    Critical Psychology has become a generative and international movement in the last 5 decades, with self-identifying Critical psychologists emerging from around the globe with publications and contributions, both theoretical and practical, in many areas of Psychology. This article provides an overview of current trends in Critical Psychology and elucidates historical sources and theoretical tenets. Presented are the relationship between individual subjectivity and society, the role of power in the discipline, the problem of subjectification, the importance of reflexivity and intersubjectivity in the context of research practices, methodologies of change for different contexts, and the ethical-political positions from which Critical psychologists operate. Challenges to Critical Psychology, which include engagements with indigenous psychologies, new forms of internationalization, and advancing transdisciplinary work, are discussed.

  • encyclopedia of Critical Psychology
    2014
    Co-Authors: Thomas Teo
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    Introduction.- Definition.- History.- Traditional debates.- Critical debates.- International relevance.- Practice relevance.- Future directions.- Furhur readings.- Cross references.- Web-based information

  • backlash against american Psychology an indigenous reconstruction of the history of german Critical Psychology
    History of Psychology, 2013
    Co-Authors: Thomas Teo
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    After suggesting that all psychologies contain indigenous qualities and discussing differences and commonalities between German and North American historiographies of Psychology, an indigenous reconstruction of German Critical Psychology is applied. It is argued that German Critical Psychology can be understood as a backlash against American Psychology, as a response to the Americanization of German Psychology after WWII, on the background of the history of German Psychology, the academic impact of the Cold War, and the trajectory of personal biographies and institutions. Using an intellectual-historical perspective, it is shown how and which indigenous dimensions played a role in the development of German Critical Psychology as well as the limitations to such an historical approach. Expanding from German Critical Psychology, the role of the critique of American Psychology in various contexts around the globe is discussed in order to emphasize the relevance of indigenous historical research.

Ora Prilleltensky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • towards a Critical health Psychology practice
    Journal of Health Psychology, 2003
    Co-Authors: Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky
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    The field of Critical Psychology is exerting an influence in the way various sub-disciplines within Psychology operate. In this article we use a Critical Psychology framework to review the field of health Psychology. Through the use of values, assumptions and practices we review progress in health Psychology and offer recommendations for aligning contemporary practices with current thinking in Critical Psychology. We discuss typical expectations, Critical formulations and Critical practice for interventions with individuals, groups and communities along these dimensions.

Isaac Prilleltensky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Critical Psychology and career development unpacking the adjust challenge dilemma
    Journal of Career Development, 2012
    Co-Authors: Isaac Prilleltensky, Graham B Stead
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    Adjusting to the world of work or challenging it is a dilemma that career counselors and helpers encounter daily. Counselors and clients may opt for one of the following choices: (a) adjust to, and challenge the system, at the same time, (b) adjust to the system but do not challenge it, (c) challenge the system but do not adjust to it, and (d) neither adjust to the system nor challenge it. These four scenarios are analyzed from the perspective of Critical Psychology and psychopolitical validity. A model depicting the various consequences of each choice for power relations, social justice, and the well-being of people, organizations, communities, and the environment is introduced. The model can guide practitioners in discerning the consequences of their actions and those of their clients.

  • towards a Critical health Psychology practice
    Journal of Health Psychology, 2003
    Co-Authors: Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky
    Abstract:

    The field of Critical Psychology is exerting an influence in the way various sub-disciplines within Psychology operate. In this article we use a Critical Psychology framework to review the field of health Psychology. Through the use of values, assumptions and practices we review progress in health Psychology and offer recommendations for aligning contemporary practices with current thinking in Critical Psychology. We discuss typical expectations, Critical formulations and Critical practice for interventions with individuals, groups and communities along these dimensions.

  • Critical Psychology an introduction
    Canadian Psychology, 2000
    Co-Authors: Dennis R Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky
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    PART ONE: Critical OVERVIEWS Introducing Critical Psychology - Isaac Prilleltensky and Dennis Fox Values, Assumptions and the Status Quo Repoliticizing the History of Psychology - Benjamin Harris Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology - Louise H Kidder and Michelle Fine A Radical Tradition Ethics in Psychology - Laura S Brown Cui Bono? Understanding and Practicing Critical Psychology - David Nightingale and Tor Neilands PART TWO: Critical ARENAS Theories of Personality - Tod Sloan Ideology and Beyond Abnormal and Clinical Psychology - Rachel T Hare-Mustin and Jeanne Marecek The Politics of Madness A Critical Look at Intelligence Research - Zack Z Cernovsky Developmental Psychology and Its Discontents - Erica Burman Social Psychology - S Mark Pancer The Crisis Continues Community Psychology - Isaac Prilleltensky and Geoffrey Nelson Reclaiming Social Justice Cross-Cultural Psychology - Fathali M Moghaddam and Charles Studer The Frustrated Gadfly's Promises, Potentialities and Failures Lesbian and Gay Psychology - Celia Kitzinger A Critical Analysis Psychology and Law - Dennis Fox Justice Diverted Political Psychology - Maritza Montero A Critical Perspective PART THREE: Critical THEORIES Feminist Psychology - Sue Wilkinson Critical Theory, Postmodernism and Hermeneutics - Frank C Richardson and Blaine J Fowers Insights for Critical Psychology Discursive Psychology - Ian Parker PART FOUR: Critical REFLECTIONS A Critical Look at Critical Psychology - Julian Rappaport and Eric Stewart Elaborating the Questions