Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation

Jan De Vos is a researcher at the faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium.

Using shrewd lessons from the history of social psychology, Jan De Vos impugns a globalizing psychology that continues to penetrate the lifeworld with its debilitating excesses. This adroit and insightful work marks a starkly original and important voice in critical psychology. - Henderikus Stam, Professor of Psychology, University of Calgary, CanadaIn this compelling volume, De Vos formulates a substantive critique of the seemingly unstoppable psychological colonisation of the human life-world. The book will be an eye-opener for all psychology students, but equally a hugely important invitation to serious soul-searching for all academic and professional psychologists. - Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University, UKJan De Vos gives us a fascinating and thought-provoking account of psychologisation, showing how psychology lives everywhere in modern life and subjectivity – even in attempts to escape from it. This is an original work and the reader is sure to come away with new, important ideas. - Svend Brinkmann, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Qualitative Studies, University of Aalborg, Denmark

• 1. Introduction: The Critique of Psychologisation: Deadlocks in the Critique of Psychologisation. 2. The Birth of the Homo Psychologicus: The Chronicle of a Death Foretold. 3. Psychologisation and the Sciences. 4. Psychologisation and Culture. 5. Psychologisation and Politics. 6. Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation.