Critical Psychology

A comprehensive state-of-the-art internationally-constituted review of the rapidly expanding field of critical psychology, which will provide the key resource for researchers, teachers and students.  It will define the scope of critical psychology and offer a route map to its future direction...

Just Sex? combines an overview of existing literature with an analysis of recent research to examine the psychological and cultural implications of date rape, making a valuable contribution to existing feminist and social constructionist thought...

Marxism and Psychoanalysis is both a detailed consideration of the relationship between the ideas of Freud and Marx, and a development of how those ideas can be critically applied to the ideology of psychology...

As the first introductory statement of the ‘new psychology’, Motives and Mechanisms, originally published in 1985, aims to bring the study of human action to the forefront of the subject. Like any science, the practice of psychology is very much influenced by the hidden assumptions of its practition..

_x005F_x000D_ Neuroscience and Critique is a ground-breaking edited collection which considers the impact of neuroscience on contemporary social science and the humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from several disciplines, the contributors draw upon a range of perspectives, including cogn..

This pioneering book presents a novel analysis of transgender constructions within a clinical setting, examining the experiences of ‘transsexuality in treatment’ interpreted through psychological, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories...

This pioneering book presents a novel analysis of transgender constructions within a clinical setting, examining the experiences of ‘transsexuality in treatment’ interpreted through psychological, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theories...

This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book a..

This book is the first to explore the discursive boundaries around the pathologization of sexual violence and transgenderism. It is ideal reading for students and researchers of critical psychology, discourse analysis, feminism and gender studies...

The concept of psychologisation has become crucial to current debates in critical psychology. De Vos combines these debates with insights from the fields of critical theory, philosophy and ideology critique, to present the first book-length argument that seriously considers the concept of psychologi..

The concept of psychologisation has become crucial to current debates in critical psychology. De Vos combines these debates with insights from the fields of critical theory, philosophy and ideology critique, to present the first book-length argument that seriously considers the concept of psychologi..

This book reviews the significance of deconstruction for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how deconstructive approaches question underlying assumptions in psychology about language and reality, the self and the social world...