Radical Psychology Network
- Radical Psychology Network
The Radical Psychology Network (RadPsyNet) began in Toronto in 1993 when two dozen people attended a discussion at the American Psychological Association convention entitled "Will Psychology Pay Attention to its Own Radical Critics?"
Today the group has more than 500 members in over three dozen countries. Members include psychologists and others, academics and practitioners, faculty and students, psychotherapists and consumer-survivors. It publishes the online "Radical Psychology Journal" and sponsors an active email discussion list.
The aim of the group is to change the "status quo" of psychology. Challenging psychology's traditional focus on minor reform, members emphasise enhancing human welfare by working for fundamental social change. They claim that psychology itself has too often oppressed people rather than liberated them and they work to redress this imbalance. In keeping with this aim, RadPsyNet co-founders Dennis Fox and Isaac Prilleltensky co-edited "Critical Psychology: An Introduction" in 1997, and many RadPsyNet members are active in academic critical psychology as well as in opposition to psychological abuses.
ee also
*Transtherapy
*Critical Psychology
External links
* [http://www.radpsynet.org/ Radical Psychology Network homepage]
* [http://www.dennisfox.net/critpsy/book.html Critical Psychology: An Introduction (book)]
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
Critical psychology — Psychology … Wikipedia
List of psychology topics — This page aims to list all topics related to psychology. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related changes in the sidebar. It is also to see the gaps in Wikipedia s coverage of the… … Wikipedia
Princeton University Department of Psychology — Green Hall redirects here, not to be confused with Hall Green; for other uses, see Green room (disambiguation) Green Hall facade The Princeton University Department of Psychology, located in Green Hall, is an academic department of Princeton… … Wikipedia
Social psychology (sociology) — Sociological social psychology, also known as psychological sociology, is a specialty area of sociology that relates macrosocial phenomena (e.g. social class) to the attitudes and behavior of individuals. [House, J. S. (1977). The three faces of… … Wikipedia
Social psychology (psychology) — Social psychology is the scientific study of how people s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others (Allport, 1985). By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of… … Wikipedia
Biological neural network — From Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates by Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The figure illustrates the diversity of neuronal morphologies in the auditory cortex. In neuroscience, a biological neural network describes a population of… … Wikipedia
Icarus Project — The Icarus Project is a grassroots network comprised of a National Organizing Collective, autonomous local groups and individuals that are living with experiences that are commonly labeled as bipolar disorder or related mental illness. It is a… … Wikipedia
Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement — The Consumer/Survivor/Ex Patient Movement, also known as the User/Survivor Movement, is a diverse association of individuals (and organizations representing them) who are either currently consumers (clients) of mental health services, or who… … Wikipedia
Ian Parker (psychologist) — Ian Parker is a British psychologist who has been a principal exponent of three quite diverse critical traditions inside the discipline. His writing has provided compass points for researchers searching for alternatives to ‘mainstream’ psychology … Wikipedia
education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… … Universalium
