CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY AN INTRO

'CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY ACKNOWLEDGES THE INFLUENCE OF RELATED PERSPECTIVES INCLUDING FEMINISM, CRITICAL THEROY, POSTMODERNISM, HERMENEUTICS AND DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGY. FOX AND PRILLELTENSKY DO NOT SET OUT TO WRITE AN ACCOUNT OF THE HISTORY OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY...INSTEAD, FOX AND PRILLELTENSKY'S TEXT INTRODUCES US TO A PARTICULAR STRAND OF RECENT CRITICAL WORK IN PSYCHOLOGY. THE BOOK IS ALSO NOTABLE BECAUSE IT STANDS AS A POTENTIAL TEACHING TEXT, WHICH IS RELATIVELY UNUSUAL IN CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY...FINALLY, PERHAPS THE MOST TELLING ENDORSEMENT FOR ANY BOOK IS THAT I HAVE ALREADY ORDERED COPIES FOR USE IN AN UNDERGRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY MODULE...I WELCOME THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING AND ACCESSIBLE TEXT, AND LOOK FORWARD TO SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS' - BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY IN THIS MAJOR TEXTBOOK, AN INTERNATIONAL CAST OF CONTRIBUTORS OFFERS A BROAD-RANGING AND CLEARLY WRITTEN INTRODUCTION TO THE DIVERSE STRANDS OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN A WIDESPREAD AND IMPORTANT