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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809995803321

Autore

Parker Ian <1956->

Titolo

Revolution in psychology : alienation to emancipation / / Ian Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich., : Pluto Press, 2007

ISBN

1-84964-323-7

1-281-73303-2

9786611733032

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

150.1

Soggetti

Psychology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What Is Psychology? Meet the Family -- Psychology as Ideology: Individualism Explained -- Psychology at Work: Observation and Regulation of Alienated Activity -- Pathologising Dissent: Exploitation Isolated and Ratified -- Material Interests: the Manufacture of Distress -- Spiritless Conditions: Regulating Therapeutic Alternatives -- Professional Empowerment: Good Citizens -- Historical, Personal and Political: Psychology and Revolution -- Commonsense: Psychological Culture on the Left -- Elements of Opposition: Psychological Struggles Now -- Transitional Demands: Taking on Psychology -- What Next? Reading and Resources -- References -- Index.