Introduction: Psychology after Deconstruction 1. Qualitative Data and the Subjectivity of ‘Objective’ Facts 2. Critical Reflexive Humanism and Critical Constructionist Psychology 3. Deconstructing Accounts 4. Constructions, Reconstructions and Deconstructions of Mental Health 5. Deconstruction and Psychotherapy 6. Deconstructing Diagnosis: Psychopathological Practice 7. Deconstruction, Psychopathology and Dialectics 8. Lacanian Social Theory and Clinical Practice
Ian Parker was Co-Founder and is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit. He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is currently editing a book series Lines of the Symbolic (on Lacanian psychoanalysis in different cultural contexts) for Karnac Books. He edited the 2011 four-volume Routledge major work Critical Psychology, and is editing the series Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought. His books on critical perspectives in psychology began with The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and How to End It (Routledge, 1989), and continued with Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology (Routledge, 1992). His recent books include Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (Open University Press, 2005) and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto Press, 2007).
'This series is the comprehensive resource we have been waiting for
to enable new generations of budding psychologists, and all those
who concern themselves with how we might live, to find their way to
a just appreciation of what it might be to understand the myriad
ways a human being can be a person among persons.' – Rom Harré,
Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK, and the Psychology
Department, Georgetown University, USA‘In a brilliant and sobering
analysis, Parker uncovers the way that modern psychological
discourse embeds a system of oppression and exploitation into the
very structure of human subjectivity. His provocative synthesis of
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism lays the groundwork for
a radical humanism capable of interrogating the networks of power
and the possibilities of resistance at the heart of modern
institutional existence.’ – Michael Arfken, Department of
Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada‘Over the
last three decades Ian Parker has consistently proved to be one of
the most thoughtful scholars in the field of critical psychology.
Key themes in his work can be seen in this collection of papers: a
concern with justice and inequality; the importance of questioning
both the mainstream and critical responses to that mainstream; a
(critically reflexive) humanism; and doing all this whilst writing
in a clear, accessible, questioning and occasionally mischievous
manner. In this book, Ian Parker has provided a way for
practitioners to question – and to begin to re-think – the
assumptions at the heart of their disciplines.’ – David Harper,
School of Psychology, University of East London, UK
'This series is the comprehensive resource we have been waiting for
to enable new generations of budding psychologists, and all those
who concern themselves with how we might live, to find their way to
a just appreciation of what it might be to understand the myriad
ways a human being can be a person among persons.' – Rom Harré,
Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK, and the Psychology
Department, Georgetown University, USA‘In a brilliant and sobering
analysis, Parker uncovers the way that modern psychological
discourse embeds a system of oppression and exploitation into the
very structure of human subjectivity. His provocative synthesis of
Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Marxism lays the groundwork for
a radical humanism capable of interrogating the networks of power
and the possibilities of resistance at the heart of modern
institutional existence.’ – Michael Arfken, Department of
Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada‘Over the
last three decades Ian Parker has consistently proved to be one of
the most thoughtful scholars in the field of critical psychology.
Key themes in his work can be seen in this collection of papers: a
concern with justice and inequality; the importance of questioning
both the mainstream and critical responses to that mainstream; a
(critically reflexive) humanism; and doing all this whilst writing
in a clear, accessible, questioning and occasionally mischievous
manner. In this book, Ian Parker has provided a way for
practitioners to question – and to begin to re-think – the
assumptions at the heart of their disciplines.’ – David Harper,
School of Psychology, University of East London, UK
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