Re-envisioning Psychology

Debating Paradigmatic Foundations

Parul Bansal

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040018415
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Applied Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book studies the ideological nature of mainstream scientific psychology. It raises critical questions about the dominant forms of psychological theorization and praxis, based on their validity, social relevance and power privileges. Re-envisioning Psychology critically interrogates scientific images of the mind, individual, gender, development, society and culture that mainstream psychology promotes. The issues taken up in this book revolve around the pivotal concerns of psychology's scientific basis, its dominant quantitative research methodology, the construction of 'individual' as the unit of analysis, the conceptualization of 'social', 'cultural' and 'gender' in relation to individualism, and the understanding of abnormality as shaped by the discourses of medical science and capitalism.

Comprehensive and topical, the book will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers of psychology, applied psychology, social work, gender and women studies, and sociology. It will also be of interest to professional counsellors and psychotherapists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• Acknowledgements
• Why Debate Psychology?: An Introduction
• 1. Is Psychology a Science?
• 2. Should Psychological Research Be Only about Numbers?
• 3. What Is ‘Social’ about Social Psychology?
• 4. Where Is ‘Culture’ in Psychology?
• 5. How Is ‘Gender’ Treated in Psychology?
• 6. What Is ‘Abnormal’ in Clinical Psychology?
• 7. Why Should We Rethink ‘Child’ and ‘Development’ in Psychology?
• References
• Index