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Article: Critical psychology and the question of subjectivity.
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- Critical Psychology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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In this paper, I suggest that critical psychology is fundamentally a critique of psychology. More specifically, critical psychology can function as a critique of and an alternative to natural science, medical model approaches to psychology, as well as humanistic and Marxist paradigms. Within such approaches, subjectivity often either has no place at all or is confused with a focus on the individual as a whole ego. Adopting a critical psychological stance can allow us to return to psychology a focus on subjectivity as that which joins together such interwoven threads as the individual, social, cultural, and political. Critical psychology can then include not only a critique ...