Critical Discursive Psychology

Recent years have seen dramatic changes in psychology. A discipline that  was once wedded to positivist inquiry is now reaping the benefits of a  series of objections to its paradigmatic limitations in the late 1960s  and 1970s. Arguments about the importance of accounts and the role of  language in the creation of psychological facts and subjective  experience have blossomed into various schools of discourse analysis and  readings of texts. Alongside these strands of work have emerged  feminist approaches that attended to the social structuring of meaning  and power, and these radical approaches have put critical work on the  agenda. The emergence of 'critical psychology' has now provided another  important setting for assessing the contribution of qualitative research  to what critical discursive research means in psychology, and for  taking those debates forward.
In this 2nd Edition, Ian Parker  introduces key issues in critical discursive research in psychology, and  outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of  this work. The book sets out methodological steps for critical readings  of texts, arguments that can be made for qualitative research in  academic settings, and arguments that could be made against it by  critical psychologists.