Handbook of Critical Psychology Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, providing a definitive state-of-the-art account of the field and an opening to the lines of argument that will take it forward in the years to come. The individual chapters by leading and emerging scholars plot the development of a critical perspective on different elements of the host discipline of psychology. The book begins by sys- tematically addressing each separate specialist area of psychology, before going on to consider how aspects of critical psychology transcend the divisions that mark the discipline. The final part of the volume explores the variety of cultural and political standpoints that have made critical psychology such a vibrant contested terrain of debate. The Handbook of Critical Psychology represents a key resource for researchers and practition- ers across all relevant disciplines. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in psychology, psychosocial studies, sociology, social anthropology, and cultural studies, and to dis- course analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory. Ian Parker was co-founder and is co-director of the Discourse Unit (www.discourseunit.com), and is Professor of Management at the University of Leicester, and Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology. He edited the four-volume major work ‘Critical Psychology’ for Routledge in 2011, edits the book series ‘Concepts for Critical Psychology’, and also authored the ‘Psychology after Critique’ series. This page intentionally left blank Handbook of Critical Psychology Edited by Ian Parker First published 2015 by Routledge 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Ian Parker The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Handbook of critical psychology / edited by Ian Parker. pages cm 1. Critical psychology. I. Parker, Ian, 1956– BF39.9.H36 2015 150.19'8—dc23 2014042679 ISBN: 978-1-84872-218-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-31572-652-6 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of Contributors xi Introduction: principles and positions 1 Ian Parker PART I Varieties of psychology and critique 11 PART Ia The mainstream 13 1 Quantitative methods: science means and ends 15 Lisa Cosgrove, Emily E. Wheeler, and Elena Kosterina 2 Cognitive psychology: from the bourgeois individual to class struggle 24 Michael Arfken 3 Behaviourisms: radical behaviourism and critical inquiry 33 Maria R. Ruiz 4 Emotion: being moved beyond the mainstream 43 Paul Stenner 5 Biological and evolutionary psychologies: the limits of critical psychology 52 John Cromby 6 Personality: technology, commodity and pathology 61 China Mills 7 Developmental psychology: the turn to deconstruction 70 Erica Burman 8 Social psychology: a commentary on organizational research 79 Parisa Dashtipour v Contents 9 Abnormal psychology: a psychology of disorders 88 Susana Seidmann and Jorgelina Di Iorio 10 Forensic psychology: clinical and critical 96 Sam Warner PART Ib Radical attempts to question the mainstream 105 11 Qualitative methods: critical practices and prospects from a diverse field 107 Brendan Gough 12 Theoretical psychology: a critical-philosophical outline of core issues 117 Thomas Teo 13 Humanistic psychology: a critical counter culture 127 Keith Tudor 14 Political psychology: critical approaches to power 137 Maritza Montero 15 Community psychology: subjectivity, power, collectivity 145 David Fryer and Rachael Fox 16 Organizational psychology and social issues: the place of the place 155 Mary Jane Paris Spink and Peter Kevin Spink 17 Counselling psychology: critical achievements, possibilities, and limitations 164 Richard House and Colin Feltham 18 Health psychology: towards critical psychologies for well-being and social justice 173 Yasuhiro Igarashi 19 Black psychology: resistance, reclamation, and redefinition 182 Garth Stevens 20 Psychology of women: questions of politics and practice 191 Rose Capdevila and Lisa Lazard 21 From ‘lesbian and gay psychology’ to a critical psychology of sexualities 200 Pam Alldred and Nick Fox vi Contents PART Ic Adjacent parts of psy-complex 211 22 Alienists and alienation: critical psychiatry in search of itself 213 Janice Haaken 23 Psychotherapists: agents of change or maintenance men? 222 Ole Jacob Madsen 24 Education and psychology: change at last? 231 Tom Billington and Tony Williams 25 Social work: oppression and resistance 240 Suryia Nayak 26 Self-help: and pop psychology 250 Jan De Vos PART II Varieties of critical psychology 259 27 Activity theory: theory and practice 261 Manolis Dafermos 28 Marxist psychology and dialectical method 271 Mohamed Elhammoumi 29 Kritische Psychologie: psychology from the standpoint of the subject 280 Johanna Motzkau and Ernst Schraube 30 Does psychoanalysis have anything to say to critical psychology? 290 Kareen Ror Malone with Emaline Friedman 31 Deconstruction: the foundations of critical psychology 297 Andrew Clark and Alexa Hepburn 32 Deleuzian perspectives: schizoanalysis and the politics of desire 306 Hans Skott-Myhre 33 Discursive psychology: key tenets, some splits, and two examples 315 Margaret Wetherell vii Contents PART III Standpoints and perspectives on psychology and critical psychology 325 PART IIIa Perspectives 327 34 Feminist psychology: researches, interventions, challenges 329 Amana Mattos 35 Queer theory: disarticulating critical psychology 339 Miguel Roselló Peñaloza and Teresa Cabruja Ubach 36 Liberation psychology: another kind of critical psychology 348 Mark Burton and Luis H. Gómez Ordóñez 37 Indigenous psychologies and critical-emancipatory psychology 356 Narcisa Paredes-Canilao, Ma. Ana Babaran-Diaz, Ma. Nancy B. Florendo, and Tala Salinas-Ramos with S. Lily Mendoza 38 Postcolonial theory: towards a worlding of critical psychology 366 Desmond Painter 39 From critical disability studies to critical global disability studies 376 Shaun Grech 40 A politically informed immanent spirituality for critical psychology 386 Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre PART IIIb Places 395 41 Critical psychology in Africa: the impossible task 397 Ingrid Palmary and Brendon Barnes 42 Critical psychology and the American continent: from colonization and domination to liberation and emancipation 406 Raquel S. L. Guzzo 43 Critical psychology in the Arab world: insights from critical community psychology in the Palestinian colonial context 415 Ibrahim Makkawi 44 ‘Critical psychology in Asia’: four fundamental concepts 425 Anup Dhar viii Contents 45 European critical psychological trends: an open road to psychological recidivism 434 Ángel J. Gordo López and Roberto Rodríguez López 46 South Pacific: tensions of space in our place 444 Leigh Coombes and Mandy Morgan Index 455 ix