Critical Psychology

The verbal community and the societal construction of consciousness

by Mark Burton

Towards a really social psychology: Liberation Psychology beyond Latin America

by Mark Burton

Mark Burton and Carolyn Kagan. published in M Montero and C Sonn: Psychology of Liberation Theory and Applications)

La psicología social de la liberación: aprendiendo de América Latina

by Mark Burton

Polis, 1, 101-124, (in collaboration with J.J. Vázquez Ortega). 2004

Liberation Social Psychology ( psicología social de la liberación , PSL ) ha sido desarrollada por un movimiento de... more Liberation Social Psychology ( psicología social de la liberación , PSL ) ha sido desarrollada por un movimiento de psicólogos en América Latina durante la última década, y este artículo explora el contexto en el cual cr eció desde los trabajos de Ignacio Martín-Baró y su ulterior estudio por Maritza Montero, entre otros. En la PSL surgen conceptos clave que incluyen conscientización, realismo crítico, desideologización, marco
social, opción preferencial por las mayorías oprimidas y eclecticismo meto-dológico. La aplicación de la PSL se ha dirigido a tres áreas. Primero, se sugiere que la psicología comunitaria practicada en algunos lugares de América Latina refleja la PSL en su énfasis por la transformación social y el uso de métodos participativos. Segundo, el trabajo psicosocial
con víctimas de la represión estatal, enfocado en la sociedad, es consi-derado ejemplo paradigmático de la PSL. Por último, los análisis político-psicosociales de la realidad de los países latinoamericanos toman en cuenta, de manera diversa, sus principios y conceptos. Para concluir, se discuten
algunos retos que enfrenta la PSL .
Palabras clave : psicología social de la liberación, opresión, transformación.

The Freudian Moment: Refelections on Herbert Marcuse

by Christian Garland

The Freudian Moment: Reflections on Herbert Marcuse for Illuminations - The Critical Theory Project (2006)

Cisgenderism in psychology: Pathologizing and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

by Peter Hegarty

Published as Ansara Y.G., & Hegarty P. (2012) Cisgenderism in psychology: Pathologizing and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008'. Psychology and Sexuality, 3, 137-160.

We assessed whether recent psychological literature on children reflects or contrasts with the zeitgeist of American... more We assessed whether recent psychological literature on children reflects or contrasts with the zeitgeist of American Psychological Association’s recent non-discrimination statement on ‘transgender’ and ‘gender variant’ individuals. Article records (N = 94) on childhood ‘gender identity’ and ‘expression’ published between 1999 and 2008 inclusive were evaluated for two kinds of cisgenderism, the ideology that invali- dates or pathologises self-designated genders that contrast with external designations. Misgendering language contradicts children’s own gender assignations and was less frequent than pathologising language which constructs children’s own gender assigna- tions and expression as disordered. Articles on children’s gender identity/expressionare increasingly impactful within psychology. Cisgenderism is neither increasing nor decreasing overall. Mental health professionals are more cisgenderist than other authors. Articles by members of an ‘invisible college’ structured around the most pro- lific author in this area are more cisgenderist and impactful than other articles. We suggest how authors and editors can implement American Psychological Association policy and change scientific discourse about children’s genders.

'Real science' laboratory phantoms and the gender of my lab coat: Toward a laboratory manual for lesbian and gay psychology

by Peter Hegarty

Keywords:
LGBT Psychology, science studies, reflexivity, empiricism, social psychology, deception experiments, gender.

Positivist-empiricism both limits and enables lesbian and gay psychology as a critical project. This paper examines... more Positivist-empiricism both limits and enables lesbian and gay psychology as a critical project. This paper examines the relationship between heterosexism and positivist-empiricist epistemology in social psychology by describing the laboratory phantoms (Bayer, 1997) that huant the empiricist consciousness. I reflect on how my own laboratory experiments on heterosexism limited my ability to teach as an out gay man and became recognized as 'real science' to the extent that my gender performance conformed to that of the anonymous white male scientist. I use these reflectiosn to argue that lesbian and gay psychologists need to theorize the irrationalities of laboratory science to critically engage posivitist-empiricism.

Cinco siglos de posiciones alternativas, críticas y radicales en la psicología mexicana

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Athenea Digital 11 (2), 2011, pp. 193-213.

I explore consecutive periods and parallel trends in five centuries of history of Mexican psychology. This exploration... more I explore consecutive periods and parallel trends in five centuries of history of Mexican psychology. This exploration enables me to detect alternative, critical and radical positions, and to emphasize their intrinsic theoretical value, as well as their alternativeness, their political radicalism and their critical power. With this aim, I contextualize the positions, situating them in the history of Mexican psychology and in relation and opposition to dominant, compulsory and disciplinary positions.

Untying real, imaginary and symbolic: a Lacanian criticism of behavioural, cognitive and discursive psychologies

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Annual Review of Critical Psychology 7, 2009, pp. 33-51.

Marx in Lacan: Proletarian Truth in Opposition to Capitalist Psychology

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Annual Review of Critical Psychology 9, 2011, pp. 70-77.

In Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory, there is a precise place for Marx in relation to psychology. It is the... more In Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytical theory, there is a precise place for Marx in relation to psychology. It is the place of truth in opposition to capitalism. It is also the place of subversion against adaptation. According to Lacan, psychology adapts people to the capitalist system, while Marx reveals the subversive truth that underlies the system. This truth emerges as the real symptom of a purely symbolic system. It is the symptom of a proletarianized subject reduced to the workforce that makes the work of the system. If this work can be psychoanalytically conceived as the work of the unconscious, its force can be Lacanianly conceived as the enunciating workforce that expresses the discourse articulated by the Other. This suffering workforce is a symptom that implies frustration and reasonably motivates workers’ struggle against
liberal capitalism.

La psicología crítica de Fray Bartolomé de las Casas: caracterización apologética de los indígenas y elucidación lógica del racismo

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Co-authored with Alejandra Cantoral Pozo and Edgar Miguel Juárez Salazar. Published in Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología 1, 2011, pp. 3-19

The paper states the existence of a critical psychology that would have been developed by Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas,... more The paper states the existence of a critical psychology that would have been developed by Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, in the sixteenth century, in opposition to the racist psychologies of Ginés de Sepúlveda and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Two levels are distinguished in this critical psychology: on the surface, against the racist psychology, a critique based on an apologetic characterization of Indians; at bottom, against the
methodology used by the racist psychology, a critique founded on a logical elucidation of racism.

Nuestra psicología y su indignante complicidad con el sistema: doce motivos de indignación

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología 2, 2012, pp. 202-209.

El año de publicación y la mala memoria de la psicología

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología 2, 2012, pp. 184-188

La psicología crítica de Ian Parker: análisis de discurso, marxismo trotskista y psicoanálisis lacaniano

by David Pavón-Cuéllar

Published in Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología 1, 2011, pp. 56-82.

Ian Parker situates his critical psychology in three important theoretical and methodological traditions that are... more Ian Parker situates his critical psychology in three important theoretical and methodological traditions that are complexly intertwined in his writings: first, discourse analysis; then Marxism, mainly Trotsky’s Marxism; finally psychoanalysis, and particularly Lacanian psychoanalysis. This article offers an analysis of the way Parker interprets these traditions, using them when he stands in each one of them in order to critically approach current psychology and culture.

Att utveckla ett autentiskt kön

by Lisa Nordlund

DE-CONSTRUCTING PSYCHOLOGY IN GREECE

by Athanasios Marvakis

with Dafermos, Manolis & Triliva, Sofia
2006.
In: Annual Review of Critical Psychology, No 5

Nick Moore (2008). Validating a Model of Information Structure in Written English through a Reading Protocol. In Steiner & Neumann (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop, 23rd-25th July, 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany.

by Nick Moore

This paper investigates reasons for the uneasy relationship between Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and the... more This paper investigates reasons for the uneasy relationship between Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and the discipline of psychology. It proposes a role for psychological data in SFL, and describes a case study that attempts to combine the methodology of psychology with SFL’s discourse-based approach to language. The case study examines the interpretation of the data obtained from a psychological approach to the SFL puzzle of information structure in written English, and provides evidence to suggest that the SFL notion of information structure has psychological validity.

Learning for S.L. Rubinstein

by Athanasios Marvakis

with Manolis Dafermos

Making the psychological political: challenges for community psychology

by Mark Burton

Paper presented at International Congress of Community Psychology, Lisboa, 2008

A second Psychology of Liberation? Valuing and moving beyond the Latin American.

by Mark Burton

paper written for the Liberation Psychology Network (English Language)
http://libpsy.org
 

Ignacio Martín Baró and the Psychology of Liberation.
The significance of Latin American Praxis in the search for... more Ignacio Martín Baró and the Psychology of Liberation.
The significance of Latin American Praxis in the search for
alternatives.
The Psychology of Liberation now
  Areas of application
  New challenges
  Limitations

FROM CRITICIZING PSYCHOLOGY TO CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

by Athanasios Marvakis

In English:
http://www.discourseunit.com/annual-review/arcp-5-critical-psychology-in-a-changing-world-contributions-from-different-geo-political-regions/

with Dafermos, Manolis, 2005, In: Supplement of the Sunday Edition of the Newspaper «Kyriakatiki Avgi», 16-10-2005. (in Greek).