Critical Psychology

With the due respect, I would not recommend this book. I found it highly rhetoric with little application to ′real life′ issues. \In fact, one of my first thought that comes into my mind when I read this book, was about the permanent critique to ′those in power′ without any concrete identification? The critique is repeated over and over again in almost every chapter . \Are not the authors ′those in power′? Who is actually paying their wages? are not the the oppressors′? Is it ethical?\Sitting in thousands of sterling pounds, dollars or Euros, many critical psychologists criticize’ our unfair society’. Some authors even talk about the unfair economic distribution, but I did not read a chapter where the author considered that he/she was receiving too much money in comparison to those ′oppressed′ and ′marginalised′ by the system, and later request a reduction in their wages.\do the authors really think that by publishing a paper in a journal or a book like this will change the system? Every little do not help to fill empty stomachs\Do critical psychologists think that a paper read by ‘an elite’ of white collars academics will change our unfair society? \Last but not least, are the authors part of ′those in power′? Are they not a privileged group? \Coherence between what the authors said and do would be desirable.

• PART ONE: CRITICAL OVERVIEWSCritical Psychology for Social Justice - Dennis Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky and Stephanie AustinConcerns and DilemmasWhat Critical Psychologists Should Know about the History of Psychology - Ben HarrisPhilosophical Concerns in Critical Psychology - Thomas TeoPART TWO: CRITICAL DISCIPLINESTheories of Personality - Tod SloanClinical Psychology - Jeanne Marecek and Rachel T Hare-Mustin The Politics of MadnessSocial Psychology and Social Change - Frances Cherry Concepts and Directions in Critical Industrial/Organizational Psychology - Gazi Islam and Michael ZyphurCommunity Psychology - Isaac Prilleltensky and Geoffrey NelsonAdvancing Social JusticeCritical Health Psychology - Kerry Chamberlain and Michael MurrayPsychology and the Law - Bruce Arrigo and Dennis FoxThe Crime of Policy and the Search for JusticeRethinking Subjectivity - Alexa Hepburn and Clare JacksonA Discursive Psychological Approach to Cognition and EmotionPART THREE: CRITICAL SOCIAL ISSUESRace and Racism - Kevin Durrheim, Derek Hook and Damien W RiggsClass - Heather E Bullock and Wendy M LimbertGender - Victoria Clarke and Virginia BraunCritical Psychology and Disability Studies - Ora PrilleltenskyCritiquing the Mainstream, Critiquing the CritiqueFrom Colonization to Globalization - Ingrid Huygens Continuities in Colonial ′Common Sense′Psychosocial Trauma, Poverty and Human Rights in Communities Emerging from War - M Brinton Lykes and Erzulie D CoquillonOppression and Empowerment - Michael McCubbinThe Genesis of a Critical Analysis of Mental HealthPART FOUR: CRITICAL PRACTICEDoing Theory - Tod SloanResearch Methodology - Wendy Stainton RogersPsychopolitical Validity in Counselling and Therapy - Isaac Prilleltensky, Ora Prilleltensky and Courte VoorheesOrganizational and Community Change - Scot Evans and Colleen LoomisCritical Psychology and the Politics of Resistance - Vicky Steinitz and Elliot G MishlerFrequently Asked Questions - Dennis Fox