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Re-sizing Psychology in Public Policy and the Private Imagination

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Authors:
  1. Mark Furlong

    1. Bouverie Family Centre, La Trobe University Bouverie Family Centre, Brunswick, Australia

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  • Analyses the accepted interpretation of Psychology as an industry and as part of the academy
  • Questions whether the effectiveness of Psychology is exaggerated
  • Highlights the variety of disciplines which are linked to Psychology and how this affects how it is interpreted

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 1-25

  3. Myths and Misconceptions

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    Pages 27-60

  4. Effectiveness, Status and Territory

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 61-98

  5. Questionable Psychology

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 99-136

  6. The General Critique

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 137-170

  7. Normative Psychology

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 171-208

  8. Governmentality: Foucault, the Process of Individualization and Psychology

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 209-244

  9. Psychologising

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 245-280

  10. Psychology Out of the Ames Room

    • Mark Furlong
    Pages 281-308

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 309-325
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About this book

This book interrogates the current reputation of Psychology, both as an industry and as part of the academy. It disputes Psychology's claim to be a science, questions its claims to effectiveness and examines relationships with other disciplines and fields. Just as Psychology's role in the design of addictive gaming machines has been underplayed so too has the conservative aspect of its regulation of normality and pathology. The discipline of Psychology affects our understanding of identity and subjectivity to position the self as amoral and disconnected. This book questions this assumption and, more generally, the received status of Psychology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bouverie Family Centre, La Trobe University Bouverie Family Centre, Brunswick, Australia

    Mark Furlong

About the author

Mark Furlong is an independent scholar and Thinker-in-Residence at the Bouverie Family Centre of La Trobe University, Australia. He practiced for 20 years in mental health and therapeutic settings, publishing extensively across diverse fields. 

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