Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought
About the Book Series
Developments inside psychology that question the history of the discipline and the way it functions in society have led many psychologists to look outside the discipline for new ideas. This series draws on cutting edge critiques from just outside psychology in order to complement and question critical arguments emerging inside. The authors provide new perspectives on subjectivity from disciplinary debates and cultural phenomena adjacent to traditional studies of the individual.
The books in the series are useful for advanced level undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers in psychology and other related disciplines such as cultural studies, geography, literary theory, philosophy, psychotherapy, social work and sociology.
Challenging and Resisting Dominant Discourses in Alcoholics Anonymous: Losing My Religion
1st Edition
By Jennifer Dunn
February 09, 2027
This book is about what it’s like for someone in Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) to question the ideas and beliefs promoted in A.A.'s main text, The Big Book, and within the group itself. It focuses on how these beliefs shape the subjectivity of someone in A.A. and what happens when a person starts to ...
A Critical Psychology of Learning: Society, Education and the Subject
1st Edition
By Athanasios Marvakis
January 14, 2027
This important book re-evaluates learning theories, taking a critical psychological approach to promote understanding of different facets and characteristics of learning from the viewpoint of the learners. The book gives an overview of influential learning theories, encompassing essentialist ...
Amerindian Perspectivism and Critical Psychology
1st Edition
By Christian Dunker
January 14, 2027
What if psychology could see through more than one body, and confront its own crisis by listening to worlds its tradition has never truly heard? In Amerindian Perspectivism and Critical Psychology, Christian Dunker presents perspectivism not as an ethnographic curiosity but as a rigorous, ...
Liberation Psychology and Refusal: Confronting Capitalist Alienation, Ideology, and Nature
1st Edition
By Nick Malherbe
November 23, 2026
To refuse is to assume a stance against that which is. We take up refusal when we push back, disinvest, ignore, and move away from. Although we tend to acknowledge the political character of refusal, the psychological character of our struggles to refuse is often not given requisite attention. ...
Critical Psychology: Angles, Arguments, Activism
1st Edition
By Ian Parker
November 20, 2026
What is critical psychology? How does it operate in relation to the theory and practice of the psy complex? Why is Marxism a valuable resource to conceptualise and challenge psychology? Detailed analysis of the ‘psy complex’ enables us to conceptualise the way academic and professional practice ...
Embracing Complexity: A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Patricia Talens
August 21, 2026
Embracing Complexity: A Critical Approach to Efficacy and Manualised Practices in Psychotherapy considers the implications for psychotherapeutic practice and research when these are required to demonstrate ‘efficacy’ through repeatable models and manualised practices. This book discusses how ...
The Great Resignation as Neoliberal Compliance and Critique: A Foucauldian Analysis
1st Edition
By Caroline Austin
June 12, 2026
This book examines how neoliberal power shapes individual subjectivity in contemporary American workplaces through the lens of the Great Resignation—the 2021 mass voluntary job departure phenomenon. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a Foucauldian framework, the book traces how neoliberal ...
Rethinking Research Collaborations: Perspectives from Social and Organisational Psychology
1st Edition
By Simone Belli, Verna Alcalde-González
February 27, 2026
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how researchers collaborate in contemporary science, drawing on social and organisational psychology to analyse key dynamics in scientific teamwork. Applying a critical lens, Rethinking Research Collaboration examines the evolving structures, ...
Institutional Trauma: A Critical Psychological Perspective on Power, Violence, and Harm
1st Edition
By Lucy Thompson
November 07, 2025
This book develops a critical psychological account of trauma as an institutional phenomenon, which is currently missing in psychological discourse. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding trauma in individualized terms, comparatively little attention has been paid to ...
Developing Recovery Pathways for Mental Health Disorders through Creative Coproduction: A Case Study of Anorexia Nervosa
1st Edition
By Jean Haslam, Mita Sykes
August 28, 2025
This book explores the potential of Creative Coproduction as a recovery tool for severe mental disorder, using case study examples of service users with anorexia nervosa. Written by authors with expertise in both mental health provision and experience of mental health services, the book advocates a...
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment
1st Edition
By Eoin Fullam
June 30, 2025
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment examines automated mental health therapy in the form of therapy chatbots, taking a critical analysis of this new technology. Drawing on historical and emerging scholarship on critical theory, science and technology studies, and...
The Hand of Addiction: A Transcontextual and Autoethnographic Becoming
1st Edition
By Weston Robins
August 12, 2024
The Hand of Addiction maps out addiction from an innovative and holistic perspective, challenging the pervasive discourses surrounding addiction in many fields. Using the metaphor of a hand, the author examines addiction through five conceptual lenses—biomedical, psychological, sociocultural, ...