Critical Discursive Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology

   1. Theoretical Discourse, Subjectivity and Critical Psychology

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 1-18

3. Enlightenment, Realism and Power (and their Reverse)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Against Postmodernism

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 21-45

   3. Against Against-ism

      • Fred Newman, Lois Holzman

      Pages 46-51

   4. Critical Distance

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 52-56

   5. Against Relativism in Psychology, On Balance

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 57-72

   6. Regulating Criticism

      • Jonathan Potter, Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore

      Pages 73-81

   7. The Quintessentially Academic Position

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 82-84

   8. Against Wittgenstein

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 85-107

   9. The Practical Turn in Psychology

      • John T. Jost, Curtis D. Hardin

      Pages 108-116

   10. Reference Points for Critical Theoretical Work in Psychology

       • Ian Parker

       Pages 117-120

4. The Turn to Discourse as a Critical Theoretical Resource

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Discursive Psychology Uncut

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 123-141

   3. Discourse

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 142-159

   4. Discourse

      • Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Ros Gill, Derek Edwards

      Pages 160-171

   5. The Context of Discourse

      • Dominic Abrams, Michael A. Hogg

      Pages 172-179

   6. Real Things

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 180-186

5. Critical Discursive Research, Subjectivity and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Reflexive Research and the Grounding of Analysis

      • Ian Parker

      Pages 189-204

Critical Discursive Psychology addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology, and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates. Key critical theoretical resources are described and assessed and a series of polemics is staged that brings together writers who have helped shape critical work in psychology. It also sets out methodological steps for critical readings of texts and arguments for the role of psychoanalytic theory in qualitative research.

• Critical Psychology
• postmodernism
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytic theory
• psychology
• qualitative research
• realism

' Critical Discursive Psychology collects more than a decade's intellectual work into a single volume...readers now have easy-access to some of the most pertinent, theoretically inspring, and discursively engaged of Parker's contributions.' - Catriona Macleod and Lindy Wilbraham, Psychology in Society

IAN PARKER is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is managing editor of the Annual Review of Critical Psychology. He is a member of Psychology Politics Resistance.

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