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.
Ratings and Rankings in Higher Education: A New-Materialist Exploration of How They Control Society
1st Edition
By Jonas Thiel
June 10, 2022
This important work critically investigates the use of rating and ranking systems in higher education to show how they govern the academic population through the creation of competition and antagonism. From social media to PISA and Rotten Tomatoes, ratings and rankings exist everywhere in our ...
Psychogeography and Psychology: In and Beyond the Discipline
1st Edition
By Alex J. Bridger
April 22, 2022
Psychogeography usually refers to radical and artistic ways of walking or to a conflation of psychology with geography. In this unique work, the author makes arguments for considering psychogeography as a way to critique the contemporary world and to consider new ways of studying the interface of ...
Food Charity and the Psychologisation of Poverty: Foucault in the Food Bank
1st Edition
By Christian Möller
December 31, 2021
This book offers a unique discursive perspective on the rapid rise of food charity and how food poverty has emerged as a symptom of deeper problems requiring psychological intervention. Christian Möller explores how new anti-poverty programmes and advice cultures are psychologising poverty by ...
The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions: Colonisation, Translation and Commodification
1st Edition
By Elliot Cohen
September 30, 2021
This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology. Beginning with the colonial histories of Empire, the ...
The Event of Psychopoetics: Imagination and the Rupture of Psychology
1st Edition
By Raúl García
August 31, 2021
The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and ...
Radio Activism: Breaking the Silence and Empowering Women
1st Edition
By Annette Rimmer
July 27, 2021
This unique book draws on the narratives of women participants in community radio, using intersectionality, feminist, critical psychological and community development frameworks to explore how this highly symbolic, creative dimension of activism can unmute marginalised women and enrich corporate ...
Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users
1st Edition
By Emaline Friedman
December 31, 2020
This essential book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It proposes a critical psychology that investigates user subjectivity as a function of capitalism and imperialism, arguing against punitive models of ...
Cybernetic Psychology and Mental Health: A Circular Logic Of Control Beyond The Individual
1st Edition
By Timothy J. Beck
June 29, 2020
This book explores the cultural importance of cybernetic technologies and their relationship to human experience through a critical theoretical lens. Bringing several often-marginalized histories of cybernetics, psychology, and mental health into dialogue with one another, Beck questions common ...
Psychology, Humour and Class: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology
1st Edition
By Babak Fozooni
April 07, 2020
This challenging book critically examines three forms of contemporary psychology, all displaying various signs of crisis, through analogy with humour associated with three different class perspectives: mainstream psychology; critical psychology; and postpsychology. By fusing the best of the three ...
Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-than-Human World
1st Edition
By Matthew Adams
February 04, 2020
This ground-breaking book critically extends the psychological project, seeking to investigate the relations between human and more-than-human worlds against the backdrop of the Anthropocene by emphasising the significance of encounter, interaction and relationships. Interdisciplinary environmental...
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 ...