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Book SynopsisExplores connections between psychology and Marxism, to make sense of what has become a double crisis
Trade Review'An impressive attempt to reclaim Marxism for psychology, and to collect together some of the best recent work in this tradition' -- Psychology in Society
'Serves to introduce undergraduate students to important, but neglected, traditions' -- Journal of the History of Behavioural Science
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
Marxist Theses and Psychological Themes
Russell Spears and Ian Parker
PART ONE: HISTORICAL MATERIAL
1. The Challenge of Historical Materialist Epistemology by Edward S Reed
2. Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View by Robert M Young
3. Marxism, The Frankfurt School, and Working Class Psychology by Martin Roiser and Carla Willig
4. Psychology and Marxist Politics in America by Benjamin Harris
PART TWO: CRITICAL TRADITIONS
5. Radical Behaviourism, Selectionism and Social Action by Jerome D Ulman
6. Convergences with Psycho-Analysis by R D Hinshelwood
7. Critical Psychology as Subject Science by Wolfgang Maiers and Charles W Tolman
8. V N Volosinov and Social Psychology by Liam Greenslade
9. Newman`s Practice of Method Completes Vygotsky by Lois Holzman
PART THREE: EVERYDAY LIFE
10. Pick a Utopia, Any Utopia: How to be Critical in Critical Social Psychology by Mike Michael
11. The Psychology of Everyday Life: Some Marxist Reflections by Grahame Hayes
12. Emotion and Politics by Paul Hoggett
13. Incarcerated Women: Transformative Strategies by Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Angela Y Davis
14. The Revolutionary Psychology of Lev Davidovich Bronstein by Ian Parker
PART FOUR: PRACTICES OF EMPOWERMENT
15. Rethinking Empowerment: Shared Action Against Powerlessnes by Mark Burton and Carolyn Kagan
16. Therapy, Consciousness-Raising and the Future in Psychology by Jane Selby and Ben Bradley
17. Participant Action-Research: Myths and Fallacies by Bernardo Jimnez-Dominguez
18. The Reactionary Practice of Radical Psychology: Revoking the Faustian Contract by Stephen Reicher
Notes on Contributors
Index
