Palgrave Macmillan | New Voices In Psychosocial Studies (2019 EN)

Author: Stephen Frosh (Editor)
Full Title: New Voices In Psychosocial Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2019 edition (November 26, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9783030327583 (978-3-030-32758-3), 9783030327576 (978-3-030-32757-6), 9783030327606 (978-3-030-32760-6)
ISBN-10: 3030327582, 3030327574, 3030327604
Pages: 239
Language: English
Genre: Psychology: Psychosocial Studies
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 128.39 €


Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research. Its extraordinary liveliness is demonstrated in this book, which showcases research undertaken at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, highlighting three domains central to the discipline – psychoanalysis, ethics and reflexivity, and resistance. The book engages psychosocially with a wide variety of topics, from social critiques of psychoanalysis through postcolonial and queer theory to studies of mental health and resistance to discrimination. These ‘New Voices in Psychosocial Studies’ offer a coherent yet wide-ranging account of research that has taken place in one ‘dialect’ of the new terrain of psychosocial studies and an agenda-setting manifesto for some of the kinds of work that might ensure the continued creativity of psychosocial studies into the next generation.

This book demonstrates the ongoing development of psychosocial studies as an innovative, critical force and will inspire both new and established researchers from across the fields that influence its transdisciplinary approach, including: critical psychology and radical sociology, feminist, queer and postcolonial theory, critical anthropology and ethnography and phenomenology.


Overview:
✓ Presents an agenda-setting manifesto for the continued creativity of psychosocial studies
✓ Appraises psychoanalysis in relation to its ‘colonial’ subtexts and its modes of knowledge-production, and deploys it to advance our understanding of contemporary subjectivity
✓ Conceptualises psychosocial studies as an ethical practice, committed to reflexivity and disciplinary autocritique, and an interrogation of the epistemological division of the subject/researcher
✓ Examines psychosocial studies’ self-presentation as a critical, emancipatory set of theories and practices

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