Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation, and SubjectivityChanging the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact on thinking about psychology and social theory. |
Contents
The point of departure | 1 |
From the individual | 11 |
psychological assessment in organizations | 26 |
Social psychology and the politics of racism | 60 |
Constructing the subject | 91 |
The subject of psychology | 119 |
Developmental psychology and the childcentred | 153 |
Theorizing subjectivity | 203 |
Gender difference and the production of subjectivity | 227 |
Power relations and the emergence of language | 264 |
Bibliography | 323 |
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Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation, and Subjectivity Julian Henriques No preview available - 1998 |
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