Critical psychology

Critical psychology is a branch of psychology that is aimed at critiquing mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychology in more progressive ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology. One of Critical Psychology's main criticisms of conventional psychology is how it fails to consider or deliberately ignores the way power differences between social classes and groups can impact the mental and physical well-being of individuals or groups of people.

Discussion questions

• Is psychiatry pseudo science?
• How do psychological professionals engage in oppression mental patients?
• Is psychiatric coercion and force justified?

Wikimedia

• Klaus Holzkamp
• Annual Review of Critical Psychology
• Rosenhan experiment

See also

• Topic:Critical psychology
• Topic:Critical pedagogy
• Topic:Community psychology
• Nerd Project
• Psychiatric Liberation
• Szaszian studies

External links

• Open access journal on critical psychology
• Text of the original paper The Myth of Mental Illness