Important book published by Springer, edited by Paul Rhodes. From social prescribing to alternatives to psychology, this book demonstrates that healing is a human enterprise.
Available for preorder and looking so good!!
This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical
psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are
possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry. While there are
many books that deconstruct or dismantle clinical psychology, few
provide a compendium of potential alternatives to mainstream practice.
Focusing on five main themes in reference to this objective: suffering,
culture and decolonization, dialogue, feminism and the arts, these pages
explores types of personal inquiry, cultural knowledge or community
activity that might help explain and heal suffering and pain beyond the
confines of the psychology industry. Chapters focus on the role of
cultural knowledge, including spiritual traditions, art, poetry,
feminism, indigenous practices and feminism in promoting healing and on
community practices, including open dialogue, justice-based practices
and social prescribing, as well as provide theoretical and
practice-based developments within in each of these discourses. Beyond the Psychology Industry
will be of interest to researchers, clinical psychologists, therapists,
academics in mental health, and cultural psychologists.
