Concepts for Critical Psychology

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1. Cultural Ecstasies

   Drugs, Gender and the Social Imaginary

   By Ilana Mountian

   Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

   In this important contribution to the field, Ilana Mountian critically analyses discourses surrounding drug addiction, drug prohibition, treatment and prevention, and highlights new ways of understanding the role that gender plays in the ethics of drug use across cultures. The book analyses the...

   Published September 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Identity in Question

   Construction, Subjectivity and Critique

   By Parisa Dashtipour

   Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

   Social identity theory is one of the most influential approaches to identity, group processes, intergroup relations and social change. This book draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Lacanian social theorists to investigate and rework the predominant concepts in the social identity framework....

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation

   By Jan De Vos

   Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

   Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply influence our society, and psychological-discourse has invaded companies, advertising, culture, politics, and even our social and family life. Moreover,...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Surviving Identity

   Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition

   By Kenneth McLaughlin

   Series: Concepts for Critical Psychology

   Today, political claims are increasingly made on the basis of experienced trauma and inherent vulnerability, as evidenced in the growing number of people who identify as a "survivor" of one thing or another, and also in the way in which much political discourse and social policy assumes the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge