Psychosocial Studies and Psychology
Is a Critical Approach Emerging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890318 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Frosh (0000-0002-0754-3505, Birkbeck College, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1545-1567 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00187267035612005 |
| OpenAlex | W2099604938 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article describes a brand of ‘psychosocial studies’ that adopts a critical attitude towards psychology as a whole, yet remains rooted in an attempt to theorize the ‘psychological subject’. Principles for psychosocial studies work of this kind are discussed, arising out of the actual work of one academic centre within a university department of psychology. These principles are: concern with the human subject as a social entity; interest in the emergence of subjectivity in the social domain; interest in critique, defined as a concern with ideological issues in psychology; methodological pluralism, including an active assertion of the value of qualitative and theoretical research, as well as more traditional quantitative research; theoretical pluralism, including interest in discourses traditionally marginalized in academic psychology (e.g. psychoanalysis, systems theory, feminist theory, phenomenology); interest in inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to psychological theory and research; and interest in personal and social change, including psychotherapy. Some complicating issues relating to the process and content of this kind of work are also outlined
Critical theory · Epistemology · Phenomenology (philosophy · Pluralism (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Toward better measurement
Psychosocial Theories of Human Behavior and Development
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology
Social Constructionism
“Tragic,” “Torment,” and “Torture”
The Influence of Systemic Racism on Quarter-Life Crisis in The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told to Alex Haley)
Parental Influence in Sharp Objects and The Silent Patient
The psychoanalytically-informed interview in social work research
Towards a psychosocial formulation of newly qualified social worker supervision
Seeing anew
Living the Theory
Paradox in the Pursuit of a Critical Theorization of the Development of Self in Family Relationships
Beyond the oversocialized conception of the subject in psychology
Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the critique of psychological dualism
Fanon, Foucault, feminisms
Affective conjunctions
Peer Culture, Masculinities and Schooling
‘Hands, Face, Space’
Fighting forward
More ‘milk’ than ‘psychology or tablets’
Fearing separation from capitalist paternity
‘The body that cannot be contained’
Troubling Apprehensions of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
Adoption process in South Africa
It Absolutely Broke Me
After all I’ve got the soul of a young girl“ - A Psychosocial Perspective on the Impact of Heteronormative Images of Masculinity on Sexual Risk Behavior of Gay Men
Studying Leadership Critically
Retaliate first
Emotional demands in children’s transition from kindergarten to school
Psychosocial studies with psychoanalysis
Paradigmatic saboteurs
Psychosocial studies and the practice of psychology
Swimming against the Stream
Using Psychoanalysis in Qualitative Research
Doing criminological research
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Trafficked women’s presentation of self before the German courts
Motivations to Adopt Transracially in South Africa
What is “The Psychosocial”? A Response to Frosh and Baraitser
Who cares about the psycho‐social? Masculinities, schooling and the unconscious
Human agency and social suffering
A psychosocial analysis of child homicide
Psychosocial welfare
Critical policy evaluation and the question of values
Cosmopolitan empathy in volunteer tourism
The university is not your home
Bridging risk and enactment
Feeling the squeeze
Ecological community
The work is alive! Systems psychodynamics and the pursuit of pluralism without polarization in human relations
Into the depths of the feminine
Trauma-informed narrative inquiry
Theory and Practice
And where were your brothers in all this
Wellbeing and Welfare
For Dialogue Between Psychoanalysis and Constructionism
Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies
The devil his due
Masculinity and Sexual Abuse
Deep reflexivity in tourism research
Poor but Happy
The resilient subject
Anxiety and phantasy in the field
Security and Development? A Story about Petty Crime, the Petty State and its Petty Law
An Introduction to Social Constructionism
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
Taking a stand
Material culture and mass consumption
The Social Dimension
Henri Tajfel's ‘Cognitive aspects of prejudice’ and the psychology of bigotry
The Social Dimension
Young Masculinities
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
Thinking Like a Man? The Cultures of Science
Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge
The Other
Qualitative research and psychological theorizing
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and the New Genetics
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |