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REPORT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE, BATH, AUGUST 2003.: The recent International Critical Psychology Conference in Bath was the third in what has loosely emerged as a biennial series of conferences beginning with the Millenium conference in Sydney, and continuing with the 2001 Praxis: Beyond the Theory/Practice Divide conference in Monterey.
No full textPSYCHOANALYSIS AND RACISM: Clarke, S (2003) Social theory, psychoanalysis and racism. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-96118-8 pbk. Pages ix+ 198.
No full textMETHODS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AMERICAN-STYLE: Sansone, C, Morf, C C & Panter, A T (2004) The Sage handbook of methods in social psychology. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-2535-X. Pages 528.
No full textPOSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (a view from South Africa): Hook, D (ed) with Mkhize, N, Kiguwa, P, Collins, A (Section eds), Burman, E & Parker, I (Consulting eds) (2004) Critical Psychology. Cape Town: UCT Press. • ISBN 1-91971-388-3. Pages xiv+ 657
No full textTHE DIMINISING REMAINDER: Parker, I (2004) Slavoj Zizek: A critical introduction. London & Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. ISBN 0-7453-2071-6 pbk. Pages viii+ 171.
No full textEthnic Identity: A Psychoanalytic Critique
No full textIn this paper I examine ethnicity and identity-formation in South Africa. I use psychoanalytic theories of some pathological aspects of narcissism to interpret how ethnic identity is an attempt to defend the self against feelings of vulnerability and inferiority that are concealed by manifest aggressive and assertive social behaviour. It is claimed that the intensity and persistence of ethnicity in South Africa is one of the results of racist ideologies and practices, and it is therefore implied that as racism is abated so will the intensity of ethnicity diminish
Contextualising adolescent development: Adams, GR, Montemayor, R, & Gullotta, T P (eds) (1996) Psychosocial development during adolescence: Progress in developmental contextualism. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-7619-0533-2 pbk. 346 pages.
No full textPsychosocial development during adolescence is part of the annual book series published by Sage and deals exclusively with advances in adolescent development. The authors have diverse academic backgrounds and research experience, and includes developmental psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and graduate students. The multidisciplinary focus of this book is a singularly positive feature as many of the authors attempt to provide multiple conceptual outlooks
Undercutting Descartes: Jauregui, J A (1995) The emotional computer. Oxford: Blackwell ISBN 0-631-19843-1. xvi+ 304 pages
No full textJose Antonio Jauregui, a social anthropologist by training, profession and inclination, has made an important discovery: the brain is a computer that tells us what to do. Lest this sound overly supercilious, let me add that it is, in context, no trivial point until relatively recently, social anthropologists - not all, but some - argued vigorously for the primacy of culture as the domain in which to analyse human behaviour and, implicitly or explicitly, that humans are rational, freed in some mysterious way from the constraints of biology. As a stance, this attained its polemical height in response, during the 1970s, to the appearance of sociobiology with its reductive claims for human sociality Since then, of course, to the detriment of neither, human sociobiology has matured and anthropology has softened, so that we now see the emergence of robust evolutionary approaches within both psychology and anthropology
Working with abused children: Hobbs, CJ, Hanks, G I & Wynne, J M (1993) Child abuse and neglect: A clinician's handbook. Edinburgh: Longman.
No full textThis book is a practical and down-to-earth introduction to the major forms of abuse and neglect which fall under the broad umbrella of child maltreatment. Issues relating to the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, and clinical management of child abuse and neglect are dealt with in a systematic, although somewhat cursory, fashion with separate chapters being given over to each of the major abuse categories
Self-Esteem In Context: A Case Study of the Motivational Processes Underlying Social Identity Construction by Township Youth
No full textThe issues examined in this paper are located within the context of the debate in Social Identity Theory (SIT) about the motivational forces underlying identity formation. The starting point of the paper is SIT in the tradition of Tajfel and Turner (Tajfel & Turner, 1979; Tajfel 1981, Hogg & Abrams, 1988). According to SIT, people are motivated by a fundamental need for self-esteem in the process of identity construction. Despite a fair amount of criticism (e.g. Abrams & Hogg, 1988; Hogg & Abrams, 1990), the "self esteem hypothesis" has received substantial empirical support. However much of this supporting empirical research has been conducted in experimental studies or laboratory conditions rather than in real-life social contexts (e.g. Hinkle & Brown, 1990; Hogg & Sunderland, 1991; Crocker, Blaine & Luhtanen, 1993). This paper reports on a research project which sought to address comments that SIT lacks ecological validity (Abrams, 1992; Hogg & Abrams, 1990; Reicher & Hopkins, 1996). The aim of this study was to complement SIT's predominantly laboratory and experimental findings with research conducted in a non-laboratory context, investigating social identity formation within natural social groupings. Against this background, detailed open-ended interviews were conducted with 40 residents of a Durban township, aged between 17 and 23 years, in the interests of investigating the process of social identity construction in the rapidly changing social climate of the early 1990s prior to the release of Mandela. This paper presents a case study of the motivational processes underlying the social identity of this group of young people