ARCP 18 (Critical) Psychology as Politics by Other Means (2024)

Contents

Editorial

Sertan Batur, Peter Brook, Peace Kiguwa, Athanasios Marvakis, Desmond Painter, Suntosh R. Pillay, Daniel Schnur and Eva Strohm Bowler

Methodology and Epistemology

Epistemological and methodological problems of qualitative research in psychology and mental health: Gonzalez Rey’s contribution

Daniel Magalhães Goulart

The first psychology laboratories: An intense traffic of micropolitical relations in a neutral space

Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira, Hugo Leonardo Silva Rocha da Rosa, Marcus Vinicius Amaral Gama Santos, and César Pimentel Pessoa

The Stanford Prison experiment: Still failing the political test

Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu

A reassessment of Tajfel’s Social Identity Approach from a critical psychological perspective

Daniel Schnur

On the omission of researchers’ working conditions in the critique of science: Critique of neuroscience and the position of neuroscientists in economized academia

Eileen Wengemuth

Fostering democratic deficiency with climate action research: A tale of epistocracy, despotic truth tellers and useless laypeople in a time of climate change

Lise Isabella Meistrup

Participatory research with the margins: Learnings with youth and children about the importance of inventiveness in peripheral contexts in Northeast Brazil

James Ferreira Moura Jr, Érica Atem Gonçalves de Araújo Costa, and João Paulo Pereira Barros

Cultural psychology in a subject-scientific perspective

Wolfgang Maiers and Katrin Reimer-Gordinskaya

Placing semiotic formulations to the epistemological ground of psychology

N. Ekrem Düzen and Mete Sefa Uysal

Problematising the power to name in psychology

Seth Oppong †

Subjectivities and Subject Formation

Rethinking power and agency through the lens of intersubjectivity

Peter Busch-Jensen

The subject of psychology: Seclusion, contraction, immobilisation, objectification, privatisation, and depoliticization

David Pavón-Cuéllar

The Politics of unconscious desire under virtual global capitalism

Kathleen Skott-Myhre and Hans Skott-Myhre

From the technology of behaviour to surveillance capitalism: Psychology as a means of control in the digital era

Christos Krystallis and Nicole Sarla

Looking at the Tekel resistance through the Class Unconscious Approach

Baran Gürsel

Modalities of agency: How ultimate concerns and conduct of life frame biographical research

Michalis Christodoulou

The teaching of written language in Brazil: Between the limits of precariousness and emancipation challenges

Adriana de Fatima Franco, Fernando Wolff Mendonca, and Ligia Marcia Martins

Is disability a social construction? On the critique of social constructivist views in (German-language) disability studies

Michael Zander

The political and social construction of the parental subject and the subject of juvenile delinquency through Greek institutional justice: A Foucauldian critical discourse analysis

Maria Perpiraki

Production of life in times of death: Five schizoanalytic movements

Domenico Uhng Hur

Social Practices of Psychology

Opening Pandora’s Box: The politics of the psychological clinic

Ilana Côrtes dos Santos and Domenico Uhng Hur

Care in psychology and social subjectivity: Representations, practices, and possibilities

Amanda Maria de Albuquerque Vaz, Valéria Deusdará Mori, and Luciana de Oliveira Campolina

From the fragmentation of the individual in the Biopsychosocial Model to a conception of totality: Theoretical-Political implications

Flávia Gonçalves da Silva and Sandro Henrique Vieira de Almeida

Psychotherapy with children in the context of justice: A social space for education, learning and subjective development

Vannúzia Leal A. Peres

Why we need to consider agency to understand traumatization: A critical psychological approach

Lena Schwaab

Everyday politics of educational psychologists

Maja Røn-Larsen

Social character, sexuality, sexpol: The transgression of psychology by Marxist psychoanalysts

Peter Schulz

“Only You”: Neoliberal responsibilizing through a public health campaign in the Norwegian welfare state

Salman Türken, Erik Carlquist, and Joshua M. Phelps

Is it just plain psychotherapy? Reflecting on the political meaning of the psychotherapist’s everyday practical dilemmas

Youli Tsirtoglou, Electra Anagnostopoulou, and Lykourgos Karatzaferis

Reflections on right-wing radicalism and emancipation in therapy: A Marxist perspective

Peter Brook

Racism and Nationalism

System Justification Theory: A half-critical psychology?

Thomas Dohmen

Afrophobic hypernationalism: Unpacking the anti-black logic of #PutSouthAfricansFirst

Suntosh R. Pillay

Urban “problem neighborhoods” – problems for whom? Marginalized youths’ lived experiences and the right to the city

Grete Erckmann

How are the Kurds problematized and addressed by psychology theses in Turkey? A Thematic analysis

Ümit Eser, Aydın Bayad, Kenan Alparslan, and Ercan Şen

The limitation of clinical trauma discourse in socio-political contexts with regard to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and some considerations on the traumatization of children

Pia Andreatta and Gianluca Crepaldi

“Let brothers not fight”: Youth work and nationalist ideologies among young migrants in Europe

Sertan Batur

Society – Racism – Psychology(Critique)

Athanasios Marvakis

Gender, Women and Critical Feminisms

Community care, practices of resilience and resistance among women in the La Araucanía Region

Alba Zambrano Constanzo and Maria Antonieta Campos Melo

Mothers and warriors: Constructing feminine militancy and normalizing violence in Greek Neo-Nazi media

Marianthi Anastasiadou

Showing (off) violence against women: Discursive constructions of violence against women and girls in an Austrian daily newspaper

Vanessa Siebauer

Researching gender relations with youth – Reflections on the attempt to conduct a subject-scientific and participative research project

Marlene Märker

“Money lets you sleep more peacefully, that’s what I’ve experienced”: Negotiations between motherhood and working-life from a class-sensitive perspective

Fiona Kalkstein

How the reference to common sense psychological concepts de-thematises gender inequality: A couple’s interview on tensions in an egalitarian relationship model

Katharina Hametner, Natalie Rodax, Nora Ruck, Paula Krüger, Johanna Nitsche, Vanessa Payr, Hannah Poltrum, Sandra Reisch, and Isabella Schludermann

Psychology as an oppressive tool during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ uprising in Iran

Laya Hooshyari

Hope in the wake of rape: Mourning, rage and refusal in womxn’s accounts of sexual violation

Rebecca Helman

Struggles, Visions, and Future possibilities

The daily struggle for social change: Psychology as politics

Raquel S. L. Guzzo, Eduardo Alessandro Kawamura, Antonio Euzébios Filho, and Larissa Baima

Abolition psychology: Principles for a decolonial liberation psychology hacia El Mundo Zurdo

Jesica Siham Fernández

Historical-Cultural psychology: What is it intended for? Theses on the inseparability of psychology and politics

Bruno Peixoto Carvalho, Silvana Calvo Tuleski, and Terezinha Martins dos Santos Souza

Against the superegoic community: Community psychology, psychoanalysis, and the consolidation of political communities

Nick Malherbe

Critical psychologies of climate change and the politics of temporality

Andreas Vavvos

Beyond performance: Psychoanalysis and the politics of sport

Fabio Menezes dos Anjos and Ivan Ramos Estevão

Transforming neoliberal social psychology into an emancipatory science: A call to abolish the police

Anup Gampa and Jeremy Sawyer

The black failure of psychology – an errant walking away

Hugo ka Canham

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