This broad-ranging introduction to the diverse strands of critical psychology explores the history, practice and values of psychology, scrutinises a wide range of sub-disciplines, and sets out the major theoretical frameworks.

Choice Recommended Read Critical psychology has developed over time from different standpoints, and in different cultural contexts, embracing a variety of perspectives. This cutting-edge and comprehensive handbook values and reflects this diversity of approaches to critical psychology today, providing a definitive state-of-the-art account of the field and an opening to the lines of argument that will take it forward in the years to come. The individual chapters by leading and emerging scholars plot the development of a critical perspective on different elements of the host discipline of psychology. The book begins by systematically addressing each separate specialist area of psychology, before going on to consider how aspects of critical psychology transcend the divisions that mark the discipline. The final part of the volume explores the variety of cultural and political standpoints that have made critical psychology such a vibrant contested terrain of debate. The Handbook of Critical Psychology represents a key resource for researchers and practitioners across all relevant disciplines. It will be of particular interest to students and researchers in psychology, psychosocial studies, sociology, social anthropology and cultural studies, and to discourse analysts of different traditions, including those in critical linguistics and political theory.

Offers a broad introduction to critical psychology and explores the socio-political contexts of post-apartheid South Africa. This title expands on the theoretical resources usually referred to in the field of critical psychology by providing substantive discussions on Black Consciousness, Post-colonialism and Africanist forms of critique.

Attachment, theory and research -- Preface -- Attachment theory : a humanistic approach for research and practice across cultures / Alan Sroufe -- Universality and cultural specificity in child-mother attachment relationships : in search of answers / German Posada & Jill M. Trumbell -- Unresolved/disorganized responses to the death of important persons : relations to frightening parental behavior and infant disorganization / Naomi I. Gribneau Bahm, Mary Main & Erik Hesse -- Attachment research in urban and rural Mexico : clinical and social implications / Sonia Gojman de Millán, Salvador Millán, Guadalupe Sánchez & Patricia González -- Attachment within the context of a cooperative and sharing mind / Mauricio Cortina -- Attachment at the extremes : lesson from the Bucharest early intervention project / Charles Zeanah, Nathan A. Fox & Charles A. Nelson -- Clinical -- The integration of attachment, mindfulness, and neuroscience / Daniel Siegel -- Minding the baby®: the impact of threat on the mother-baby and mother-clinician relationship / Arietta Slade, Nancy Close, Tanika Simpson, Denise Webb, & Sarah Fitzpatrick -- Attachment, trauma and reality : clinical integrations in the treatment of young children / Alicia Lieberman -- Attachment & complex trauma : an intervention program for institutionalized infants (0 to 4 years) / Felipe Lecannelier -- Appendix

What is critical social psychology? In what ways can social psychology be progressive or radical? How can it be involved in political critique and reconstruction? Is social psychology itself the problem? Critical social psychology offers a confusing array of diverse answers to these questions. This book cuts through the confusion by revealing the very different assumptions at work in this fast growing field. A critical approach depends on a range of often-implicit theories of society, knowledge, as well as the subject. This book will show the crucial role of these theories for directing critique at different parts of society, suggesting alternative ways of doing research, and effecting social change. It includes chapters fr

What can critical social psychology teach us about our sense of identity? How have psychosocial and feminist approaches challenged our understanding of subjectivity? Where is this complex and fast-moving field heading? This new edition of Critical Social Psychology addresses these questions and more, providing important insight into social psychology. Thoroughly updated and revised, it clearly outlines approaches such as social constructionism and psychoanalysis, and explains how these ideas can illuminate topics like social influence and prejudice. The second edition of Critical Social Psychology: - Includes two new chapters on applied health psychology and applied work psychology - Uses 'critical thinking boxes' to demonstrate the practical application of theory and debates, helping you engage with the different ideas - Contains revised content including an expanded section on research methods, as well as enhanced coverage of action research and critical narrative approaches Guiding you through the key topics in social psychology and mapping the critical approaches onto each concept, Critical Social Psychology is essential reading for students of both psychology and other social sciences.

"A Critical Introduction to Psychology is the first scholarly book, in which fifteen critical psychologists analyze chapters from popular Introduction to Psychology textbooks. In their critiques of mainstream (Euro-American) psychology, the authors of this edited volume also envision a pluriversal, transdisciplinary psychology, which is inclusive of critical voices from all over the world"--