Politics, Race, Ethnicity & Gender

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What would psychology look like if we took the planet seriously? Ecopsychologists are, on the whole, more interested in our relations with the earth than our relations with each other.  They find little inspiration in conventional psychology, and generally have…

The first edition of Implausible Professions, published in 1997, foretold many of the core issues around therapy ‘professionalisation’ that have come to dominate the field in recent years as the shadow of possible state regulation has loomed ever larger over the psy…

This book offers a wide range of critical perpectives on cogntive-behavioural therapy (CBT) from around the world, and substantial responses to them. It represents the first attempt to engage in print wih the controversies and complexities that exercised — sometimes…

Psychotherapy is, but its very definiation, concerned with working with the soul, a scientifically unverified concept, yet the 'profession' seeks acceptance as scientific. Therapy is about listening to clients, yet its exponents don't seem to wish to listen to…

The foundation of this book rests on the values and ethics of justice and responsibility, to resist domination and totalising discourses and to deconstruct the discourses behind models of therapy. Given that people who are distressed often choose to go for help in…

•Examines the related demands for audit and ‘evidence-based practice’ in health services, and how these increasingly encroach upon the field of psychotherapy.
•Critically discusses whether the tools used to carry out ‘audit’ and measure ‘accountability’ can possibly…

In, Against and Beyond Therapy assembles some 15 years of updated critical writings within the broad therapy field, with incisively provocative commentaries on the professionalisation process, the client voice, therapeutic education and training, and research. For…

Denis Postle chronicles 16 years of scrutiny and practical development of civic accountability for the psychological therapies. He shows how vested interests, which in the last decade successfully seduced an otherwise uninterested government into bringing forward…

An international collection of papers offers critical analysis of the person-centred approach and its position on difference and diversity; class; culture and racism; sexuality; power and gender issues. Other contributions present a range of work including theory…