Critical Discursive Psychology by I. Parker (English) Hardcover Book

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Critical Discursive Psychology addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology, and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates. Key critical theoretical resources are described and assessed and a series of polemics is staged.

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"Critical Discursive Psychology" addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates. Key critical theoretical resources are described and assessed and a series of polemics is staged that brings together writers who have helped shape critical work in psychology. It also sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts and arguments for the role of psychoanalytic theory in qualitative research.

Notes

Ian Parker is managing editor of the "Annual Review of Critical Psychology".

Author Biography

IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is managing editor of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology. He is a member of Psychology Politics Resistance.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT, REALISM AND POWER (and their reverse) Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context Against Relativism in Psychology: On Balance Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in Psychology PART II: THE TURN TO DISCOURSE AS A CRITICAL THEORETICAL RESOURCE Discursive Psychology Uncut Discourse: Definitions and Contradictions PART III: CRITICAL DISCURSIVE RESEARCH, SUBJECTIVITY AND PRACTICE Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-Complex Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture Constructing and Deconstructing Therapeutic Discourse Critical Reflections

Review

' Critical Discursive Psychology collects more than a decade's intellectual work into a single volume...readers now have easy-access to some of the most pertinent, theoretically inspring, and discursively engaged of Parker's contributions.' - Catriona Macleod and Lindy Wilbraham, Psychology in Society

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Ian Parker is managing editor of the "Annual Review of Critical Psychology".

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' Critical Discursive Psychology collects more than a decade's intellectual work into a single volume...readers now have easy-access to some of the most pertinent, theoretically inspring, and discursively engaged of Parker's contributions.' - Catriona Macleod and Lindy Wilbraham, Psychology in Society

Details ISBN033397381X Short Title CRITICAL DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGY Language English ISBN-10 033397381X ISBN-13 9780333973813 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1956 Place of Publication Basingstoke Residence US Edition Description 2002 Pages 270 DOI 10.1604/9780333973813;10.1057/9781403914651 AU Release Date 2002-10-14 NZ Release Date 2002-10-14 UK Release Date 2002-10-14 Illustrations XIV, 270 p. Author I. Parker Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 2002 Publication Date 2002-10-14 Alternative 9781349429912 DEWEY 150.1 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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