The Politics of Help
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 7. July 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-905007-19-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this issue, a number of contributors deal with the question of self-help and the helping professions. They analyse strategies within self-help groups for those diagnosed with anxiety disorders; programmes for at-risk young people in rural areas; and new techniques of management of health risk in nursing. The contributors argue that self-help strategies, along with other apparently empowering programmes, can be intimately linked to less than liberatory practices of governance of the self. And they argue for approaches more fully aware of the complexities of emotional life.
Other contributions include: a look at Lacanian psychoanalysis as an analytic framework for talk analysis; a psychoanalytic account of Lolita online that looks at smoking fetishisation and the sexualisation of girls; a discussion of narratives of pioneering women educators and the discourses that constitute women as political subjects; an examination of the ways that 'difference' and 'foreignness' are accomplished in Romanian talk about Romanies; and an exploration of the relationship between critical psychology and the anti-capitalist movement, which raises wider questions of the relationship between radical academic and intellectual work and the politics of activism.
Other contributions include: a look at Lacanian psychoanalysis as an analytic framework for talk analysis; a psychoanalytic account of Lolita online that looks at smoking fetishisation and the sexualisation of girls; a discussion of narratives of pioneering women educators and the discourses that constitute women as political subjects; an examination of the ways that 'difference' and 'foreignness' are accomplished in Romanian talk about Romanies; and an exploration of the relationship between critical psychology and the anti-capitalist movement, which raises wider questions of the relationship between radical academic and intellectual work and the politics of activism.
Reviews / Votes
'... a bold and innovative new development. This journal belongs on the bookshelves of every psychologist with an interest in the context and politics of their discipline. A sure way of keeping up with the most recent and exciting empirical and theoretical work in critical psychology, the journal, with its strong editorial team and clear mission, will be a powerful voice for new intellectual movements and currents,' Margaret Wetherell, Open University 'the new journal should make a very important contribution to current debates about social change and its psychological changes. It will give a voice to those who are looking beyond the frameworks of orthodox psychology, a very necessary task as we seek to explore the new uncertainties and social problems we now all collectively face.' Anthony Giddens, London School of EconomicsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905007-19-6 (9781905007196)
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Content
Editorial The politics of help Valerie Walkerdine Features Gavin B. Sullivan Fright Club! A critical account of anxiety self-help and alternative groups Simone Fullagar The paradox of promoting help-seeking: a critical analysis of risk, rurality and youth suicide Heather Gibb Risk rationality and the emergence of a new professionalism in nursing Eugenie Georgaca Lacanian psychoanalysis and the subject of social constructionist psychology: analysing subjectivity in talk Julie M. Albright Lolita online: smoking fetishisation and the sexualisation of girls Cristian Tileag Talking about integration and discrimination: accomplishing 'difference' and 'foreignness' in Romanian talk about Romanies Maria Tamboukou Rethinking the political subject: narratives of parrhesiastic acts John Drury What critical psychology can ('t) do for the 'anti-capitalist movement' Review Gary Clark A species in denial