Psychology Humour and Class A Critique of Contemporary Psychology 1st Edition by Babak Fozooni 0429874864 9780429874864

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ISBN-10 :  0429874864 

ISBN-13 :  9780429874864

Author:  Babak Fozooni 

This challenging book critically examines three forms of contemporary psychology, all displaying various signs of crisis, through analogy with humour associated with three different class perspectives: mainstream psychology; critical psychology; and postpsychology. By fusing the best of the three psychologies with political and cultural critiques, the book poses the question: what if class conflict and the crises of psychology are related? This is precisely the Gordian Knot which Fozooni tries to untangle. First, the author demonstrates how psychology has traditionally veered towards either an upper-class or a middle-class paradigm. With the demise of these two old paradigms a new understanding of psychology is gradually emerging – a postpsychology. Describing how ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’ psychologies are undergoing late-life crisis, and ‘postpsychology’ is experiencing its birth pangs in an environment hostile to its existence, the book provides an alternative narrative of psychology. The author suggests that whilst all three forms of psychology have contributed to our self-comprehension, it is only postpsychology that possesses the attributes necessary for a global remaking of humanity. Tackling the discipline of psychology head-on, Fozooni pits against it a series of scathing yet tongue-in-cheek critiques, making this fascinating and provocative reading for all students and academics interested in psychology, as well as the general reader.

Psychology Humour and Class A Critique of Contemporary Psychology 1st Table of contents:

PART I: Mainstream psychology as upper-class prescriptions
1. Freud and social class
2. Hirschfeld, class and sexuality
3. Watsonian capitalism
4. Maslow and peak capitalism
5. Carl Rogers: The bolo tie ‘internationalist’
PART II: Critical psychology as middle-class musings
6. Viktor Emil Frankl: The inconvenient existentialist
7. Ronald David Laing: The naughty existentialist
8. For Foucault’s sake!
9. Billig: The sultan of critical psychology
10. Parker and critical psychology: OK, now what?
PART III: Postpsychology and working-class stutterings
11. Giambattista Vico, imagination and postpsychology
12. Joseph Dietzgen: (One of) our philosophers
13. Alfred Sohn-Rethel and rabid capitalism
14. Erich Fromm and postpsychology
15. Antonin Artaud, embodiment and postpsychology
16. Lev Vygotsky is postpsychology!
17. Bakhtin completes Vygotsky
18. Luria completes Bakhtin who completed Vygotsky
19. Discussion

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