In critical realism, language is understood as constructing our social realities. However,
these constructions are theorized as being shaped by the possibilities and constraints …

Content and Focus: Counselling psychology's relationship with diagnostic categories on a
metatheoretical level has received little attention in the literature. A few descriptive studies …

Although social science work on the body has demonstrated its thorough socialisation,
social psychology has barely recognised the mutual interdependence of the physical body …

In the opinion of Dorothea Brandt, author of the famous Becoming a Writer (1981), all writing
is autobiographical in one way or another. Hence this book may be seen to represent not …

Der Buchtitel von Alain Ehrenberg „Das erschöpfte Selbst “ist zum nichtfachlichen Synonym
für den Zustand der Depression geworden, aber nicht im Sinne einer vermeintlich …

Critical psychology with no notion of embodied subjectivity encounters problems. This paper
proposes the integration of social theory and neuroscience in order to develop a notion of …

The Psy complex governs us all by inscribing, diagnosing and interfering in our lives. This
volume takes historical, sociological and psychological perspectives in exploring the …

The change from an institutional to community care model of mental health services can be
seen as a fundamental spatial change in the lives of service users (Payne, 1999; Symonds & …

This challenging book critically examines three forms of contemporary psychology, all
displaying various signs of crisis, through analogy with humour associated with three …

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) is an increasingly popular form of time‐limited therapeutic
intervention in the UK, which claims success with a variety of psychological problems such …