Mark Rapley is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Murdoch University. His work applies discursive psychology to questions of power, in particular the interactional and rhetorical production of persons with intellectual disabilities, the 'mentally ill' and Aboriginal Australians. His most recent books are Quality of Life Research: A Critical Introduction (2003) and, with Susan Hansen and Alex McHoul, Beyond Help: A Consumer's Guide to Psychology (2003).

'The book presents a timely challenge to our profession. Mark Rapley's writing just gets better: make sure you get the chance to learn from him.' Clinical Psychology

• Acknowledgements; A note on the cover; A note on transcription notation; Introduction; 1. A discursive psychological approach; 2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; 3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy; 4. Matters of identity; 5. Talk to dogs, infants and...; 6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul); 7. Some tentative conclusions; Appendices.

Mark Rapley is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Murdoch University. His work applies discursive psychology to questions of power, in particular the interactional and rhetorical production of persons with intellectual disabilities, the 'mentally ill' and Aboriginal Australians. His most recent books are Quality of Life Research: A Critical Introduction (2003) and, with Susan Hansen and Alex McHoul, Beyond Help: A Consumer's Guide to Psychology (2003).

'The book presents a timely challenge to our profession. Mark Rapley's writing just gets better: make sure you get the chance to learn from him.' Clinical Psychology

• Acknowledgements; A note on the cover; A note on transcription notation; Introduction; 1. A discursive psychological approach; 2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; 3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy; 4. Matters of identity; 5. Talk to dogs, infants and...; 6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul); 7. Some tentative conclusions; Appendices.

Mark Rapley is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Murdoch University. His work applies discursive psychology to questions of power, in particular the interactional and rhetorical production of persons with intellectual disabilities, the 'mentally ill' and Aboriginal Australians. His most recent books are Quality of Life Research: A Critical Introduction (2003) and, with Susan Hansen and Alex McHoul, Beyond Help: A Consumer's Guide to Psychology (2003).

'The book presents a timely challenge to our profession. Mark Rapley's writing just gets better: make sure you get the chance to learn from him.' Clinical Psychology

• Acknowledgements; A note on the cover; A note on transcription notation; Introduction; 1. A discursive psychological approach; 2. Intellectual disability as diagnostic and social category; 3. The interactional production of 'dispositional' characteristics: or why saying 'yes' to one's interrogators may be a smart strategy; 4. Matters of identity; 5. Talk to dogs, infants and...; 6. A deviant case (co-written with Alec McHoul); 7. Some tentative conclusions; Appendices.