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.
The Great Resignation as Neoliberal Compliance and Critique: A Foucauldian Analysis
1st Edition
By Caroline Austin
June 12, 2026
This book examines how neoliberal power shapes individual subjectivity in contemporary American workplaces through the lens of the Great Resignation—the 2021 mass voluntary job departure phenomenon. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a Foucauldian framework, the book traces how neoliberal ...
Liberation Psychology and Refusal: Confronting Capitalist Alienation, Ideology, and Nature
1st Edition
By Nick Malherbe
May 15, 2026
To refuse is to assume a stance against that which is. We take up refusal when we push back, disinvest, ignore, and move away from. Although we tend to acknowledge the political character of refusal, the psychological character of our struggles to refuse is often not given requisite attention. ...
Rethinking Research Collaborations: Perspectives from Social and Organisational Psychology
1st Edition
By Simone Belli, Verna Alcalde-González
February 27, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how researchers collaborate in contemporary science, drawing on social and organisational psychology to analyse key dynamics in scientific teamwork. Applying a critical lens, Rethinking Research Collaboration examines the evolving structures, ...
Institutional Trauma: A Critical Psychological Perspective on Power, Violence, and Harm
1st Edition
By Lucy Thompson
November 07, 2025
This book develops a critical psychological account of trauma as an institutional phenomenon, which is currently missing in psychological discourse. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding trauma in individualized terms, comparatively little attention has been paid to ...
Developing Recovery Pathways for Mental Health Disorders through Creative Coproduction: A Case Study of Anorexia Nervosa
1st Edition
By Jean Haslam, Mita Sykes
August 28, 2025
This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of service users with anorexia nervosa. Written by authors with expertise in both mental health provision and experience of mental health services, the book advocates a...
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment
1st Edition
By Eoin Fullam
June 30, 2025
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment examines automated mental health therapy in the form of therapy chatbots, taking a critical analysis of this new technology. Drawing on historical and emerging scholarship on critical theory, science and technology studies, and...
The Hand of Addiction: A Transcontextual and Autoethnographic Becoming
1st Edition
By Weston Robins
August 12, 2024
The Hand of Addiction maps out addiction from an innovative and holistic perspective, challenging the pervasive discourses surrounding addiction in many fields. Using the metaphor of a hand, the author examines addiction through five conceptual lenses—biomedical, psychological, sociocultural, ...
Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters
1st Edition
By Ernst Schraube
March 05, 2024
In the face of a world in crisis, Digitalization and Learning as a Worlding Practice: Why Dialogue Matters examines the significance of digital technologies in human learning. The book explores how learning is not just an internalization of knowledge but a problem- oriented activity of engaging ...
Critical Approaches to the Psychology of Emotion
1st Edition
By Simone Belli
February 09, 2023
This fascinating book explores the different methodologies, resources and strategies that have been used to study emotion, and identifies emerging trends and research perspectives in the field. Emotion is a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in all fields of social and behavioural ...
Decentering Subjectivity in Everyday Eating and Drinking: Digesting Reality
1st Edition
By Ali Lara
January 09, 2023
This important book offers a model to analyze the configurations of reality as manifested in everyday practices of eating and drinking in relation to the development of human subjectivity. The author uses concrete examples from daily life related to eating and drinking habits such as "...
A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research: Interviews with Men Who Pay for Sex
1st Edition
By Monique Huysamen
June 23, 2022
A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. The book centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive approach to understanding how knowledge...
Psychology, Punitive Activation and Welfare: Blaming the Unemployed
1st Edition
By Rose-Marie Stambe
June 17, 2022
This book explores welfare politics, unemployment, and interventions in relation to the labour market from a critical psychological perspective. Using critical fieldwork and theory, the author explores the administration of the unemployed, and the drive to increase labour market participation ...