Re-sizing Psychology in Public Policy and the Private Imagination / by Mark Furlong.
2016
JF1525.P6
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Title
Re-sizing Psychology in Public Policy and the Private Imagination / by Mark Furlong.
Author
Furlong, Mark., author
ISBN
1137584297
9781137584298
9781137584298
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XIII, 325 pages)
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-58429-8. doi
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JF1525.P6
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.6
Summary
This book interrogates the current reputation of Psychology, both as an industry and as part of the academy. It disputes Psychology's claim to be a science, questions its claims to effectiveness and examines relationships with other disciplines and fields. Just as Psychology's role in the design of addictive gaming machines has been underplayed so too has the conservative aspect of its regulation of normality and pathology. The discipline of Psychology affects our understanding of identity and subjectivity to position the self as amoral and disconnected. This book questions this assumption and, more generally, the received status of Psychology. Mark Furlong is an independent scholar and Thinker-in-Residence at the Bouverie Family Centre of La Trobe University, Australia. He practiced for 20 years in mental health and therapeutic settings, publishing extensively across diverse fields.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Myths and Misunderstandings
Chapter 3. Effectiveness, Status and Territory
Chapter 4. Questionable Psychology
Chapter 5. The Larger Critique
Chapter 6. Normative Psychology
Chapter 7. Psychology and Governmentality
Chapter 8. Psychologizing
Chapter 9. Psychology out of Ames Room.
Chapter 2. Myths and Misunderstandings
Chapter 3. Effectiveness, Status and Territory
Chapter 4. Questionable Psychology
Chapter 5. The Larger Critique
Chapter 6. Normative Psychology
Chapter 7. Psychology and Governmentality
Chapter 8. Psychologizing
Chapter 9. Psychology out of Ames Room.