1st Edition
Psychology, Humour and Class A Critique of Contemporary Psychology
Preface Apologia Introduction Part One: Mainstream Psychology as Upper Class Prescriptions Chapter 1: Freud and social class Chapter 2: Hirschfeld, class and sexuality Chapter 3: Watsonian capitalism Chapter 4: Maslow and peak capitalism Chapter 5: Carl Rogers: the bolo tie ‘internationalist’! Part Two: Critical Psychology as Middle Class Musings Chapter 6: Frankl: The inconvenient existentialist Chapter 7: Laing: The naughty existentialist! Chapter 8: For Foucault’s sake Chapter 9: Billig: the sultan of critical psychology Chapter 10: Parker and critical psychology: OK, now what? Part Three: Postpsychology as Working Class Stutterings Chapter 11: Giambattista Vico, imagination and postpsychology Chapter 12: Joseph Dietzgen: (one of) our philosophers! Chapter 13: Alfred Sohn-Rethel and rabid capitalism Chapter 14: Erich Fromm and postpsychology Chapter 15: Antonin Artaud and embodiment Chapter 16: Vygotsky is postpsychology! Chapter 17: Bakhtin completes Vygotsky Chapter 18: Luria completes Bakhtin who completed Vygotsky! Discussion List of references
Biography
Babak Fozooni is an associate lecturer at the Open University and the author of "What is Critical Social Research? Volumes 1 and 2 (2012, 2017). He has taught at the University of East London, the University of Westminster, Birkbeck College and the Open University. He writes from a working-class perspective.
