Marxism & Psychology Research Group (MPRG)

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This issue of Annual Review of Critical Psychology represents a collaborative effort to continue unravelling the modern, and ever expanding, tendency to manage non-psychological issues in psychological terms. The most important challenge, here, lies in probing the boundaries between the non-psychological and the psychological and exploring ways to transcend them. For, if today it seems that there no outside of psychology and psychologization, the question seems to have become: are we lost in psychologisation?

These are questions and dilemmas that are shared by the contributors in this issue, whether they focus on the foundations and exemplifying logics of psychologisation and the legal and institutional bases (Part I), or envisage strategies and actions to render visible the socio-political investments behind psychologisation processes (de-psychologised) as a powerful syntax of neoliberal language (Part II). The debate is still open. Each of the articles in this issue can be classified as an attempt to realize a critique of psychologisation beyond its deadlocks.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Editorial: Psychologism, Psychologising and De-Psychologisation

(ÁNGEL GORDO & JAN DE VOS).

 

Part I Disciplinary, legal and sociocultural overflow: from psycho-logism to psychologisation:

 

Psychologised life and thought styles

(FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ-URÍA, JULIA VARELA, ÁNGEL GORDO & PILAR PARRA)

 

Psychologisation processes viewed from the perspective of the regulation of healthcare professions in Spain

(ROBERTO RODRÍGUEZ)

 

The psychologisation of work: the deregulation of work and the government of will

(EDUARDO CRESPO & AMPARO SERRANO)

 

Psychologisation and the construction of the political subject as vulnerable object

(KEN MCLAUGHLIN)

 

Beyond psychologisation: individual and collective naturalising stigmatizations

(RAFAEL GONZÁLEZ)

 

From the bodhi tree, to the analyst‘s couch, then into the MRI scanner: the psychologisation of Buddhism

(ELLIOT COHEN)

 

Part II De-psychologising policies/politics:

 

The rational of an emotional society: a Cartesian reflection

(MARC DE KESEL)

 

‘Sincerely Yours’‘ – ‘What do you mean?’ Psychologisation as symptom to be taken seriously

(FRANK VAN DE VEIRE)

 

Je Te mathème!: Badiou‘s de-psychologisation of love

(CARLOS GUILLERMO GÓMEZ CAMARENA)

 

The disappearance of psychologisation?

(OLE JACOB MADSEN & SVEND BRINKMANN)

 

Beyond Psychologisation. The Non-Psychology of the Flemish Novelist Louis Paul Boon

(JAN DE VOS)

 

Rebel Pathologies: from Politics to Psychologisation…and back

(MIHALIS MENTINIS)