| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
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What Is Psychology? Meet the Family -- Psychology as ideology: Individualism Explained -- Psychology at work: Observation and Regulation of Alienated Activity -- Pathologising Dissent: Exploitation Isolated and Ratified -- Material Interests: the Manufacture of Distress -- Spiritless Coditions: Regulating Therapeutic Alternatves -- Professional Empowerment: Good Citizens -- Historical Personal and Political: Psychology and Revolution -- Commonsense: Psychological Culture on the Left -- Elements of Opposition: Psychological Struggles Now -- Transitional Demands: Taking on Psychology -- What Next? Reading ad Resources |
| Summary |
A radical methodological approach to psychology that is open to social change change - in an anti-capitalist, anti-racist and feminist politics. Antonio Negri Psychology is meant to help people cope with the afflictions of modern society. But how useful is it? Ian Parker argues that current psychological practice has become part of the problem, rather than the solution. Ideal for undergraduates, this book deconstructs the discipline to reveal the neoliberal sensitivities that underlie its theory and practice. Psychology focuses on the happiness of 'the individual'. Yet it neglects the fact that the happiness of the individual depends on their social and political surroundings. Ian Parker argues that a new approach to psychology is needed. He offers an alternative vision, outlining how the discipline can be linked to political practice and how it can help people as part of a wider progressive agenda |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-257) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Psychology -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Psychology.
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Philosophy
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Psychology
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philosophy.
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psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- General.
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Psychology
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Philosophy
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Psychology -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007298908 |
| ISBN |
9781849643238 |
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1849643237 |
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9786611733032 |
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6611733035 |
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