Psychology through critical auto-ethnography : academic discipline, professional practice and reflexive history / Ian Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Ian, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical psychology.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

vii, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2020]

Summary:

This unique book is an insider account about the discipline of psychology and its limits, introducing key debates in the field of psychology around the world today by closely examining the problematic role the discipline plays as a global phenomenon. Ian Parker traces the development of critical psychology' through an auto-ethnographic narrative in which the author is implicated in what he describes, laying bare the nature of contemporary psychology. In five parts, each comprising four chapters, the book explores the student experience, the world of psychological research, how psychology is taught, how alternative critical movements have emerged inside the discipline, and the role of psychology in coercive management practices. Providing a detailed account of how psychology actually operates as an academic discipline, it shows what teaching in higher education and immersion in research communities around the world looks like, and it culminates in an analytic description of institutional crises which psychology provokes. A reflexive history of psychology's recent past as a discipline and as a cultural force, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone thinking of taking up a career in psychology, and for those reflecting critically on the role the discipline plays in people's lives.

Contents:

Introduction: control and confession

PART I Studying psychology

1 Experiments: cold method

2 Cognition: sex and race

3 Biology: performing animals

4 Science: breaking up madness

PART II Psychological research

5 Paradigms: performing student

6 Perception: boxed beetles

7 Analysis: the continental selection

8 Social: what is a dissertation?

PART III Teaching psychology

9 Empirical: mapping the quadrangle

10 Personality: behaving badly

11 Conflict: war and peace in the subject

Discourse: tall tales about power

PART IV Going critical

13 Development: cults and discourse units

14 Psychiatry: on the campus

15 Constructionism: assessment and appointment

16 Evolutionary: realistic and critical too

PART V Institutional crises

17 Quantitative: administrative and personal

18 Qualitative: watching them watching us

19 Stress: discipline and publish

20 Management: big P and little p.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0367344181

9780367344184

9780367344177

0367344173

OCLC:

1120980517