Abstract
Critical psychology is now a massive expanding field of work that encompasses many different traditions of research around the world, and it is all the more diverse because it is tackling a host discipline – psychology – that is a sprawling contradictory mass of approaches to understanding individuals. We have learnt a lot from critical psychiatry, and many of us have allied ourselves with the anti-psychiatry and democratic psychiatry movements. We are, of course, against the medicalisation of distress, and there have been particular lessons from psychiatry about how not to do clinical psychology – lessons which then impact on how we think about the place of psychotherapy and counselling (Parker 2011a).
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Parker, I. (2015). Towards Critical Psychotherapy and Counselling: What Can We Learn from Critical Psychology (and Political Economy)?. In: Loewenthal, D. (eds) Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460585_3
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