Critical Psychology

This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the negative view of these issues relies on a particular understanding of adolescence...

Adopted Women and Biological Fathers offers a critical and deconstructive challenge to the dominant notions of adoptive identity. The author explores adoptive women’s experiences of meeting their biological fathers and reflects on personal narratives to give an authoritative overview of both the fie..

In a series of interviews on the distribution of chores related to the home and family, Caroline Dryden explores the reality of gender roles in heterosexual relationships today...

Drawing on primary research on lesbian subjectivity in South Africa, this timely book examines research on lesbian and gay identities to explore the contemporary politics of homophobia related violence in a postcolonial context...

Drawing on primary research on lesbian subjectivity in South Africa, this timely book examines research on lesbian and gay identities to explore the contemporary politics of homophobia related violence in a postcolonial context...

In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, and drug prevention, and develops alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives to current psychological approaches to drug use...

In this important contribution to the study of drugs and addiction Illana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drugs, drug treatment, and drug prevention, and develops alternative conceptual and methodological perspectives to current psychological approaches to drug use...

Damaged Life, originally published in 1996, presents a powerful and progressive analysis of modernity’s impact on the psyche. Tod Sloan develops an integrated theory of the self in society by combining perspectives on personality development and socio-historical processes to explore our complex resp..

This book offers a critical post-colonial reading of the newly emerging arena of global mental health; with particular focus on psychology’s and psychiatry’s encounters with distress or ‘mental illness’ in low-income countries...

Gilles Deleuze is one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century and an increasingly influential figure throughout the humanities and social sciences. This is the first book to offer a critical introduction to Deleuze's ideas and their significance and implications for psychology...

Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon...

Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon...