Social Constructionist Psychology

1st Edition
0335232426 · 9780335232420
How can ideas about the social construction of reality be reconciled with the material and embodied aspects of our being?In what ways can a realist framework inform social constructionist research?What are the limits of social constructionism?This ac… Read More
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  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • What's wrong with social constructionism?
  • /f002Part one: A critical analysis of theory

  • Critical reflexive humanism and critical constructionist psychology

  • Beyond appearances
  • a critical realist approach to social constructionist work
  • A paradigm shift? connections with other critiques of social constructionism
  • /f002Part two: Materiality and embodiment

  • Between the dark and the light

  • power and the material contexts of social relations
  • "Discourse or materiality?"
  • impure alternatives for recurrent debates
  • Discourse and the embodied person
  • The extra-discursive in social constructionism
  • Realism, constructionism and phenomenology
  • Taking our selves seriously
  • /f002Part three: A critical analysis of practice

  • Whose construction? points from a feminist perspective

  • Social constructionism
  • implications for psychotherapeutic practice
  • That's all very well, but what use is it?
  • Conclusion
  • reconstructing social constructionism
  • Glossary
  • Index.