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Psychology After the Crisis
Scientific Paradigms and Political Debate
Series: Psychology After Critique
The book includes a clear account of the paradigm ‘crisis’ in psychology in the early 1970s, and the different varieties of qualitative research that are at work inside and outside the discipline of psychology now. It explores a series of concepts and methodological approaches, and shows how...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Psychology after Deconstruction
Erasure and Social Reconstruction
Series: Psychology After Critique
What is ‘deconstruction’ in theory and research in psychology? How does deconstruction radicalise ‘social constructionist’ approaches in psychology? Where does radical conceptual and empirical research go now? The book includes a clear account of deconstruction, and the different varieties of the...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Psychology after Discourse Analysis
Concepts, Methods, Critique
Series: Psychology After Critique
This book reviews the significance of discourse analysis for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how discursive approaches question underlying assumptions commonly made about the nature of ‘thinking’ and ‘behaviour’ in the discipline....
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Psychology after Psychoanalysis
Psychosocial Studies and Beyond
Series: Psychology After Critique
Why is psychoanalysis now re-emerging as a sub-discipline inside psychology? What is the value of using psychoanalytic ideas to develop psychosocial research? How does psychoanalysis tackle the relation between the individual and society? This volume includes a clear account of psychoanalysis, and...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Psychology after the Unconscious
From Freud to Lacan
Series: Psychology After Critique
What is the role of ‘representation’ in Freud’s concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this ‘unconscious’ in relation to cultural research? Psychoanalysis discovers and describes a domain of mental activity...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Psychology after Lacan
Connecting the Clinic and Research
Series: Psychology After Critique
Why is Lacanian psychoanalysis now appearing in psychology? What innovative account does it offer of the human subject? What are the implications for psychology as a separate discipline? This volujme reviews the significance of Jacques Lacan’s work for a new generation of psychologists, and...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
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Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, and worked examples from analysts working with a range of different texts. The...
To Be Published October 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals)
Critical analysis for social and individual psychology
Series: Psychology Revivals
What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? In this book, originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the...
To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge
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The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (Psychology Revivals)
and how to end it
Series: Psychology Revivals
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex body...
To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Critical Psychology
Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology
Critical psychology has emerged as a vibrant site of research and reflection on the assumptions and practices of its host discipline. As serious scholarship flourishes in the area as never before, this new collection from the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology, meets the...
Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge