Introduction
Critical psychology (better: critical psychologies) has emerged using multifaceted approaches in theory and practice outside of the mainstream of psychology in many countries around the globe. Although critical-psychological ideas can be found prior to the 1960s, the most important developments were made since that period on the background of the rise of social epistemologies and social movements. Acore goal of critical psychologists was to transform psychology intoan emancipatory, radical, social-justice seeking, or status-quo-resisting approach that understands psychological issues as taking place in specific political-economic or cultural-historical contexts. The term critical psychologywas originally claimed for a German school of thought, but was soon self-applied by psychologists from the English-speaking world and from other linguistic regions who gave the term their own meanings. Critical psychology has an evenlonger history if one considers critiques of...
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Teo, T. (2012). Critical Psychology. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_5
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