Critical PsychologyDerek Hook 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. |
Contents
The basic coordinates | 10 |
Psychological imperialism | 16 |
An African perspective | 24 |
Do we need an Africanbased psychology? | 30 |
The notion of vitality or life force | 42 |
Criticisms of the selfincommunity | 48 |
Frantz Fanon Steve Biko psychopolitics | 84 |
Fanon and the psychoanalysis of racism | 115 |
The South African context | 273 |
Critical reflections on community and psychology | 316 |
The role of collective action in the prevention | 335 |
About black psychology | 389 |
Forms of practice | 415 |
Activity Theory as a framework for psychological | 425 |
Participatory Action Research and local knowledge | 445 |
Emotional processes in political | 465 |
Psychoanalysis and critical psychology | 139 |
Marxism and critical psychology | 162 |
Psychology and the regulation of gender | 187 |
Foucault disciplinary power and the critical prehistory | 210 |
Disciplinary power | 216 |
Psychology as disciplinary apparatus | 228 |
Conclusion | 236 |
Governmentality and technologies of subjectivity | 239 |
Analysing a Lovelines text | 487 |
The critical research endeavour | 523 |
Human development in underdeveloped contexts | 540 |
Liberation psychology | 559 |
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