Revolution in psychology : alienation to emancipation
Ian Parker (Author)
A radical methodological approach to psychology that is open to social change change - in an anti-capitalist, anti-racist and feminist politics. Antonio Negri Psychology is meant to help people cope with the afflictions of modern society. But how useful is it? Ian Parker argues that current psychological practice has become part of the problem, rather than the solution. Ideal for undergraduates, this book deconstructs the discipline to reveal the neoliberal sensitivities that underlie its theory and practice. Psychology focuses on the happiness of 'the individual'. Yet it neglects the fact that the happiness of the individual depends on their social and political surroundings. Ian Parker argues that a new approach to psychology is needed. He offers an alternative vision, outlining how the discipline can be linked to political practice and how it can help people as part of a wider progressive agenda
1 online resource (265 pages)
9781849643238, 9786611733032, 1849643237, 6611733035
654104830
What Is Psychology? Meet the Family
Psychology as ideology: Individualism Explained
Psychology at work: Observation and Regulation of Alienated Activity
Pathologising Dissent: Exploitation Isolated and Ratified
Material Interests: the Manufacture of Distress
Spiritless Coditions: Regulating Therapeutic Alternatves
Professional Empowerment: Good Citizens
Historical Personal and Political: Psychology and Revolution
Commonsense: Psychological Culture on the Left
Elements of Opposition: Psychological Struggles Now
Transitional Demands: Taking on Psychology
What Next? Reading ad Resources
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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