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.
Blackwashing Homophobia: Violence and the Politics of Sexuality, Gender and Race
1st Edition
By Melanie Judge
August 24, 2017
As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power ...
Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism: Witches, Fairies, and Nomads
1st Edition
By Kathleen Skott-Myhre
July 06, 2017
Industrial modernity's worship of rationality had a profound effect on women’s ways of knowing, marginalizing them along with other alternate forms of knowledge such as the imagination and the unconscious. Feminist Spirituality under Capitalism discusses the importance of women’s spiritual ...
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
1st Edition
By Sherianne Kramer
June 01, 2017
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the ...
Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or against Psychology?
1st Edition
By David Pavon-Cuellar
January 06, 2017
The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself is screened through the twin dynamics of ...
Developing Minds: Psychology, neoliberalism and power
1st Edition
By Elise Klein
September 29, 2016
Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target ‘development’ interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relationship between ...
Rethinking Education through Critical Psychology: Cooperative schools, social justice and voice
1st Edition
By Gail Davidge
August 29, 2016
Since the very first ‘co-operative’ school opened its doors in 2008, the complicated relations between ‘co-operative’ approaches to schooling and democratic subjectivity remain unexplored. This ground breaking book considers the role of ‘voice’ in co-operative schooling and its place in radical ...
Deleuze and Psychology: Philosophical Provocations to Psychological Practices
1st Edition
By Maria Nichterlein, John Morss
July 26, 2016
An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari. This book aims to be a critical introduction to these ideas, which have so much to offer psychology in terms of new directions as well as critique....
Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice
1st Edition
By Calum Neill
May 02, 2016
This highly original book explores the idea and potential of psychology in the context of ethical theory, and the idea of ethics in the context of psychology. In so doing, it not only interrogates how we come to understand ethics and notions of right behaviour, but also questions the discipline of ...
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India: Critical Clinical Practice
1st Edition
By Sabah Siddiqui
April 22, 2016
Religion and Psychoanalysis in India questions the assumptions of an established scientific, evidence-based global mental health paradigm by examining the practices of faith-based healing. It proposes that human beings demonstrate a dual loyalty: to science as faith and faith as science, both of ...
Radical Inclusive Education: Disability, teaching and struggles for liberation
1st Edition
By Anat Greenstein
June 24, 2015
Many people who work in education start out with enthusiastic ideals about education as a positive force that can spur change in the life of the learner and in society at large, yet find themselves frustrated with a bureaucratic system that often alienates and excludes many of its students. This is...
Race, Gender and the Activism of Black Feminist Theory: Working with Audre Lorde
1st Edition
By Suryia Nayak
September 03, 2014
Beginning from the premise that psychology needs to be questioned, dismantled and new perspectives brought to the table in order to produce alternative solutions, this book takes an unusual transdisciplinary step into the activism of Black feminist theory. The author, Suryia Nayak, presents a close...
Perverse Psychology: The pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism
1st Edition
By Jem Tosh
July 16, 2014
Psychology defines people who take pleasure in the suffering of others as having a form of mental illness, while media representations frame such behaviour as ‘evil’. This is hotly contested territory, not least where sexual violence is concerned – violence which feminist voices argue is related to...