Benjamin Bradley

Biographic Data

ID4888853
NAMEBenjamin Bradley
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin
FAMILY NAMEBradley
SIGNATUREBRADLEY B
AFFILIATIONSCharles Sturt University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX1

  • Deconstruction reassigned? ‘The child’, antipsychology and the fate of the empirical

    Open AccessBenjamin S Bradley, Benjamin BradleyARTICLEFeminism & Psychology2014References: 8

    I approach the achievements of Burman’s Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (DDP) by contrasting them with: (a) the (non-)‘deconstructive’ work of Foucault; and (b) Burman’s other critical writings. Questions are thus raised about DDP’s stance to antidevelopmentalism, antipsychology, deconstruction and the cultural specificity of critique, thereby accentuating the significance of DDP’s commitment to feminism. Following consideration of DDP’s …

  • Commentary: The Vygotskian Family in the Supreme Court of Practice

    Open AccessBenjamin S Bradley, Benjamin BradleyARTICLECulture & Psychology2008Cited by: 1References: 8

    The unification of psychology has proven a perennial problem. Vygotsky's solution was to reverse the usual predominance of theory over practice, making practice the `supreme judge' of truth. Matusov's goal appears to be a more modest one: the integration of cultural-historical and sociocultural Vygotskians into a harmonious `family'. Analysing the aporias of Matusov's text, I argue that what unites these two groups of Vygotsky's heirs is a common…

  • Psychology and Experience

    Open AccessBenjamin BradleyBOOKPsychology and Experience2005

    If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century marginalise or deny it? In this thought-provoking new book Benjamin Bradley shows how our everyday experiences need to be at the core of the scientific discipline. He calls for a move away from attempts to reconcile the many contrasting and often opposing theories and philosophies of contemporary psychology, and instead puts forw…

  • The 'Voices' Project: Capacity-Building in Community Development for Youth at Risk

    Open AccessBenjamin Sylvester Bradley, Benjamin Bradley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2004Cited by: 7References: 13

    We report three cycles of an 'action research' project aimed at increasing the capacities of young people at risk in a rural Australian town. Drawing on an 'experience-based' approach to risk assessment and the concept of collective efficacy, we aimed to provide a group of 10 young people with a safe and uncensored space within which to voice their own concerns about the risks and problems confronting them. Their stories were then made public thr…

  • Infants in Groups: A Paradigm for the Study of Early Social Experience

    Open AccessJane Selby, Jane M Selby et al.ARTICLEHuman Development2003

    This paper reports on a two-stage, case-based analysis of infant sociability in infant-only trios to illustrate how findings made using this approach extend our theoretical understanding of early intersubjectivity. Studying infant groups allows us to address three kinds of emerging theoretical argument: (1) that babies are born with a ‘general relational capacity’ which complements or even founds the more specific ‘dyadic program’ that generates …

  • Infants in Groups: Extending the Debate

    Open AccessJane Selby, Jane M Selby et al.ARTICLEHuman Development2003

  • Social Construction in a World at Risk: Toward a Psychology of Experience

    Open AccessBenjamin Sylvester Bradley, Benjamin Bradley et al.ARTICLETheory & Psychology2002

    This essay sets up a relationship between social constructionism and the risk theory of Ulrich Beck. This dialogue is mutually enhancing. Risk theory adds a conceptualization of societal process to the relational focus of social constructionism as justified by Kenneth Gergen. It both establishes the particular character of a social world put at risk by its own modernization and proves the identity between individualization and societalization. Si…

  • Women's first experiences of childbirth: Two hospital settings compared

    Open AccessBenjamin S Bradley, Benjamin Bradley et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Medical…1990

    This study analyses expectations, experiences and the aftermath of childbirth from interviews conducted with 60 mothers nine months after their first child was born. Half had given birth in a 'family birthing centre' (FBC) and half had used the conventional delivery suite (CDS). Findings showed that the two groups of women had different antenatal orientations to the birth, different experiences of the labour, different experiences of motherhood a…