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- Provides an overview of everyday, activist, community, and art-based approaches to healing and recovery
- Offers a unique criticism of mainstream psychology
- Discusses contemporary critical psychology, specifically addressing the issue of therapeutic practices outside of mainstream psychology
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This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry. While there are many books that deconstruct or dismantle clinical psychology, few provide a compendium of potential alternatives to mainstream practice. Focusing on five main themes in reference to this objective: suffering, decolonization, dialogue, feminism and the arts, these pages explore types of personal inquiry, cultural knowledge or community action that might help explain and heal psychological pain beyond the confines of the therapy room. Chapters focus on the role of cultural knowledge, including spiritual traditions, relational being, art, poetry, feminism and indigenous systems in promoting healing and on community-based-initiatives, including open dialogue, justice-based collaboration and social prescribing. Beyond the Psychology Industry will be of interest to researchers, clinical psychologists, therapists, academics in mental health, and cultural psychologists.
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Book Title: Beyond the Psychology Industry
Book Subtitle: How Else Might We Heal?
Editors: Paul Rhodes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33762-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33761-2Published: 19 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33764-3Published: 19 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33762-9Published: 10 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 127
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Critical Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Self and Identity