Psychology through Critical Auto-Ethnography

This unique book is an insider account about the discipline of psychology and its limits, introducing key debates in the field of psychology around the world today by closely examining the problematic role the discipline plays as a global phenomenon.

Ian Parker is Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Leicester, and Co-Director of the Discourse Unit, where he is Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology.

Introduction: Control and confession PART I: STUDYING PSYCHOLOGY 1. Experiments: Cold method 2. Cognition: Sex and race 3. Biology: Performing animals 4. Science: Breaking up madness PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 5. Paradigms: Performing student 6. Perception: Boxed beetles 7. Analysis: The continental selection 8. Social: What is a dissertation? PART III: TEACHING PSYCHOLOGY 9. Empirical: Mapping the quadrangle 10. Personality: Behaving badly 11. Conflict: War and peace in the subject 12. Discourse: Tall tales about power PART IV: GOING CRITICAL 13. Development: Cults and discourse units 14. Psychiatry: On the campus 15. Constructionism: Assessment and appointment 16. Evolutionary: Realistic and critical too PART V: INSTITUTIONAL CRISES 17. Quantitative: Administrative and personal 18. Qualitative: Watching them watching us 19. Stress: Discipline and publish 20. Management: Big P and little p Afterword and acknowledgements Bibliography Index