Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought
About the Book Series
Developments inside psychology that question the history of the discipline and the way it functions in society have led many psychologists to look outside the discipline for new ideas. This series draws on cutting edge critiques from just outside psychology in order to complement and question critical arguments emerging inside. The authors provide new perspectives on subjectivity from disciplinary debates and cultural phenomena adjacent to traditional studies of the individual.
The books in the series are useful for advanced level undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers in psychology and other related disciplines such as cultural studies, geography, literary theory, philosophy, psychotherapy, social work and sociology.
Narrative Psychology and Vygotsky in Dialogue: Changing Subjects
1st Edition
By Jill Bradbury
September 25, 2019
This book draws together two domains of psychological theory, Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory of cognition and narrative theories of identity, to offer a way of rethinking the human subject as embodied, relational and temporal. A dialogue between these two ostensibly disparate and contested ...
Madness and Subjectivity: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Psychosis in the West and India
1st Edition
By Ayurdhi Dhar
August 27, 2019
This crucial new work draws on empirical findings from rural North India in relation to madness and subjectivity, revealing the different structures of subjectivity underlying the narratives of schizophrenia, spirits, ghosts, and deities. Unravelling the loose ends of madness, the author explores ...
Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies
1st Edition
By Robert Beshara
March 19, 2019
In this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches to Islamophobia, this book enhances understandings of Critical Border ...
Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil
1st Edition
By Daniel Goulart
February 25, 2019
Subjectivity and Critical Mental Health: Lessons from Brazil presents and discusses subjectivity as a key concept to challenge the individualized and reified perspective that psychology and mental health studies have traditionally sustained. Situated against the maintenance of hierarchical, ...
Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia, and the War on Imagination
1st Edition
By Rachel Jane Liebert
November 05, 2018
Across the world, the rhetoric and violence of white supremacy is rising up. Yet, explanations for white supremacist attacks typically direct attention toward an unreasonable, paranoid state of mind, and away from the neocolonial security state that made them. Offering a response to US ...
Anticipation and Medicine: A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare
1st Edition
By Owen Dempsey
August 22, 2018
Anticipation in Medicine: A Critical Analysis of the Science, Praxis and Perversion of Evidence Based Healthcare looks at an aspect of healthcare rarely addressed: how the capitalist interest in diagnosis and treatment impacts upon the patient and, by extension, the system of healthcare itself. ...
Fanon, Education, Action: Child as Method
1st Edition
By Erica Burman
July 17, 2018
Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this unique book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ and childhood as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon. Based on innovative readings...
Identical Twins: The Social Construction and Performance of Identity in Culture and Society
1st Edition
By Mvikeli Ncube
June 04, 2018
In Identical Twins: The Social Construction and Performance of Identity in Culture and Society, Ncube conceptualises twin identity as a multi-layered dynamic that changes through performance, and explores twin identity through a social constructionist approach. Until now, mainstream twin studies ...
NO BODY: Clinical Constructions of Gender and Transsexuality - Pathologisation, Violence and Deconstruction
1st Edition
By Miguel Roselló-Peñaloza
May 14, 2018
What articulations between bodies, genders and desires are required socio-culturally for recognition of what is human? What happens with those people who do not meet the heteronormative criteria of intelligible life? Are psychology and medicine part of the solution, or part of the problem? This ...
The Psychopolitics of Food: Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age
1st Edition
By Mihalis Mentinis
March 29, 2018
The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary ‘foodscape’, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and ...
Queer Politics in India: Towards Sexual Subaltern Subjects
1st Edition
By Shraddha Chatterjee
February 08, 2018
Queer Politics in India simultaneously tells two interconnected stories. The first explores the struggle against violence and marginalization by queer people in the Indian subcontinent, and places this movement towards equality and inclusion in relation to queer movements across the world. The ...
Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial: Beyond Bourdieu in South Africa
1st Edition
By Hannah Botsis
November 13, 2017
In Subjectivity, Language and the Postcolonial, Hannah Botsis draws on theoretical work that exists at the intersection of critical social psychology, sociolinguistics and the political economy of language, to examine the relationships between language, subjectivity, materiality and political ...