List of contributors. Ian Parker and John Shotter Introduction Part 1: Texts and Rhetoric 1. Peter Stringer Prefacing Social Psychology: A Textbook Example 2. Corinne Squire Crisis What Crisis? Discourses and Narratives of the ‘Social’ in Social Psychology 3. Michael Billig Rhetoric of Social Psychology 4. Celia Kitzinger The Rhetoric of Pseudoscience 5. Antony Easthope ‘I Gotta Use Words when I Talk to You’: Deconstructing the Theory of Communication Part 2: Power and Science 6. Ian Parker The Abstraction and Representation of Social Psychology 7. Nikolas Rose Psychology as a ‘Social Science’ 8. Edward E. Sampson Social Psychology and Social Control 9. John Bowers All Hail the Great Abstraction: Star Wars and the Politics of Cognitive Psychology 10. Kum-Kum Bhavnani What’s Power Got to Do With It? Part 3: Subjectivity and Individuality 11. John Shotter Social Individuality Versus Possessive Individualism: The Sounds of Silence 12. Mike Michael Intergroup Theory and Deconstruction 13. David Pilgrim Researching Psychotherapy in Britain: The Limits of a Psychological Approach 14. Janet Sayers Psychoanalytic Feminism: Deconstructing Power in Theory and Therapy 15. Erica Burman Differing with Deconstruction: A Feminist Critique. References. Index.
Biography
Ian Parker
