Critical Discursive Psychology [electronic resource] /
Parker, I.author.
This book introduces key issues and historical contexts in critical discursive research in psychology. It sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts, arguments that can be made for qualitative research in academic settings, and arguments that could be made against it by critical psychologists.
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Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Discourse; Discourse analysis; Going critical; 1 Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology; Situated knowledge; Theoretical critical distance; Complex subjectivity; Conclusions and openings; Part I Enlightenment, Realism and Power; 2 Against Postmodernism: Psychology in Cultural Context; Postmodern against the modern; A detour: postmodern narrative and Enlightenment practice; Four Enlightenment reversals; Conclusion; 2a Against Against-ism : Comment on Parker
2b Critical Distance: Reply to Newman and HolzmanKnowing something; Knowing nothing; 3 Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance; Introduction; For relativism, and against; For critical realism, and against; The separation and reconnection of moral-political critique; 3a Regulating Criticism : Some Comments on an Argumentative Complex; Introduction; Rhetorical troubles; Recruiting the tortured, oppressed and murdered; Critical realist psychology and critical realism in and against psychology; Trouble in the Parker-complex; 3b The Quintessentially Academic Position
4 Against Wittgenstein: Materialist Reflections on Language in PsychologyWittgenstein and psychology; Words, the world and power; Psychology, again; Contexts; Connections and conclusions; 4a The Practical Turn in Psychology: Marx and Wittgenstein as Social Materialists; The practical turn; Wittgenstein was not a relativist; Wittgenstein was not an essentialist; The politics of Wittgenstein; Synthesizing Marx and Wittgenstein; 4b Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology; Wittgenstein and Marx; Contradictions; Synthesis
Part II The Turn to Discourse as a Critical Theoretical Resource5 Discursive Psychology Uncut; Defining 'discourse'; Historical resources: two traditions; Discourse analysis in psychology; Axes of difference in discursive research; Remaining questions; 6 Discourse : Definitions and Contradictions; Introduction; The turn to language; Criteria; Auxiliary criteria; Reflections and conclusions; 6a Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?; Introduction; Discourse analysis: descriptive and constructive; Reification and intuition; Interpretative repertoires
6b The Context of Discourse: Let's Not Throw Out the Baby with the Bathwater6c Real Things: Discourse, Context and Practice; Object status; Context; Practice; Part III Critical Discursive Research, Subjectivity and Practice; 7 Reflexive Research and Grounding of Analysis: Psychology and the Psy-complex; Objectivity; Subjectivity; Discursive complexes; The psy-complex; Discussion; Concluding comments; 8 Tracing Therapeutic Discourse in Material Culture; The material; Analytic steps; Therapeutic discourse, subject positions and power; Concluding comments
9 Constructing and Deconstructing Psychotherapeutic Discourse
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book introduces key issues and historical contexts in critical discursive research in psychology. It sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts, arguments that can be made for qualitative research in academic settings, and arguments that could be made against it by critical psychologists.
Critical psychology.
Discourse analysis.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Psychology.
Sociology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Critical Psychology.
Discourse Analysis.
Personality and Social Psychology.
General Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Community and Environmental Psychology.