Psychology and Society

Ian Parker is Professor of Management in the School of Management at the University of Leicester and President of the College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of Psychology and Society (Pluto, 1996), Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2004), Revolution in Psychology (Pluto, 2007) and Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left (2015).Russell Spears is Professor of Social Psychology at the Universiet van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is currently editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.

'An impressive attempt to reclaim Marxism for psychology, and to collect together some of the best recent work in this tradition'

• INTRODUCTIONMarxist Theses and Psychological ThemesRussell Spears and Ian Parker PART ONE: HISTORICAL MATERIAL1. The Challenge of Historical Materialist Epistemology by Edward S Reed2. Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View by Robert M Young3. Marxism, The Frankfurt School, and Working Class Psychology by Martin Roiser and Carla Willig4. Psychology and Marxist Politics in America by Benjamin HarrisPART TWO: CRITICAL TRADITIONS5. Radical Behaviourism, Selectionism and Social Action by Jerome D Ulman6. Convergences with Psycho-Analysis by R D Hinshelwood7. Critical Psychology as Subject Science by Wolfgang Maiers and Charles W Tolman8. V N Volosinov and Social Psychology by Liam Greenslade9. Newman`s Practice of Method Completes Vygotsky by Lois HolzmanPART THREE: EVERYDAY LIFE10. Pick a Utopia, Any Utopia: How to be Critical in Critical Social Psychology by Mike Michael11. The Psychology of Everyday Life: Some Marxist Reflections by Grahame Hayes12. Emotion and Politics by Paul Hoggett13. Incarcerated Women: Transformative Strategies by Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y Davis14. The Revolutionary Psychology of Lev Davidovich Bronstein by Ian ParkerPART FOUR: PRACTICES OF EMPOWERMENT15. Rethinking Empowerment: Shared Action Against Powerlessnes by Mark Burton and Carolyn Kagan16. Therapy, Consciousness-Raising and the Future in Psychology by Jane Selby and Ben Bradley17. Participant Action-Research: Myths and Fallacies by Bernardo Jimnez-Dominguez18. The Reactionary Practice of Radical Psychology: Revoking the Faustian Contract by Stephen ReicherNotes on ContributorsIndex