Psychology, Discourse And Social Practice: From Regulation To Resistance

by Pam Alldred, Gill Aitken, Tom Billington, et al.

What damage does psychology do to people's lives, and what can we do about it? How do we recognise and support resistance? Written by expert practitioners-researchers, this co-authored book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its "expert" knowledge to turn social marginalisation into pathology.
Chapters address a range of cultural and institutional arenas in which inequalities structured around categories of gender, "race",...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748405046
• ISBN13: 9780748405046
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"