Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology is a comprehensive reference work and is the first reference work in English that comprehensively looks at psychological topics from critical as well as international points of view. Thus, it will appeal to all committed to a critical approach across the Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, for alternative analyses of psychological events, processes, and practices.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• About the Editor
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• A
• Abjection
• Abnormality, Overview
• Aboriginal Peoples
• Abortion
• Abuse, Overview
• Achievement
• Activism
• Activity Theory
• Adjustment, Overview
• Adolescence, Overview
• Adolescent Sexuality
• Adultism
• Advocacy, Overview
• Aesthetics
• African Psychology, Critical Trends
• Agency
• Aggression, Overview
• AIDS/HIV
• Alienation
• Alterity
• Ambivalence, Overview
• Anarchism
• Androcentrism
• Animals
• Anthropological Psychology
• Anti-psychiatry
• Anti-semitism
• Apartheid
• Apathy, Overview
• Appropriation
• Assessment
• Attachment
• Autism
• B
• Behavior, Overview
• Behavioral Genetics
• Behaviorism, Overview
• Biopolitics
• Biopower
• Bisexuality
• Blackness
• Body Image, Overview
• Buddhist Psychology
• Bullying, Overview
• C
• Capitalism, Overview
• Caste Hierarchies
• Catharsis
• Center and Periphery
• Childhood/Infancy
• Chinese Psychology
• Circuits of Dispossession and Privilege
• Cissexism
• Citizenship, Overview
• Class
• Classism
• Cognitive Theory
• Collaboration
• Collective Identity
• Colonialism, Overview
• Colonization, Overview
• Common Sense, Overview
• Communication
• Community
• Community of Practice
• Community Psychology
• Conduct of Everyday Life
• Confession, Overview
• Conscientization
• Conscientization and Political Changes
• Consciousness, Overview
• Consciousness-Raising Groups
• Constructivism, Overview
• Consumerism, Overview
• Context, Overview
• Coping, Overview
• Creativity
• Criminality
• Cross-Cultural Psychology, Overview
• Crowd Psychology
• Cultural Imperialism
• Cultural Psychology
• Cultural-Historical Psychology
• Culture-Bound Disorders
• Culture-Fair Tests
• Cyberbullying
• Cybernetics
• D
• Death, Overview
• Deception
• Decolonization, Overview
• Defense Mechanisms
• Delinquency
• Depersonalization, Overview
• Depression
• Deprivation, Overview
• Desire
• Determinism
• Developmental Psychology, Overview
• Deviance
• Diagnosis, Overview
• Dialectical Materialism
• Dialectics
• Dialogical Self
• Difference, Overview
• Disability
• Disasters, Overview
• Discourse Analysis
• Discrimination
• Discursive Configuration
• Discursive Psychology
• Discursive Repertory
• Disease, Overview
• Dissociative Identity Disorder, Overview
• Diversity
• Divorce, Overview
• Domestic Violence, Overview
• Drive, Overview
• Drug Prevention
• Drugs, Overview
• DSM, Overview
• E
• Eastern Psychologies
• Ecopsychology
• Education
• Educational Psychology
• Educational Standardized Testing
• Egalitarianism, Overview
• Emancipation, Overview
• Embodiment
• Emotion
• Empathy
• Empiricism, Essay
• Employment
• Environment
• Environmental Psychology, Overview
• Epistemological Violence
• Epistemology
• Essentialism, Overview
• Ethics, Overview
• Ethnicity, Overview
• Ethnocentrism
• Ethnography
• Eugenics
• Everyday Life
• Evolution, Overview
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Exclusion, Overview
• Existence
• Existentialism
• Experience
• Expertise, Overview
• Exteriority
• Extimacy
• F
• Fact and Value
• False Consciousness
• Fantasy, Overview
• Fascism
• Fatalism, Overview
• Female Genital Cutting
• Femininity
• Feminism
• Feminist Pedagogy
• Feminist Psychology: An American Perspective
• Feminist Therapy
• Fetishism
• Fiction
• Field Theory
• First-Person Perspective
• Focus Groups
• Forensic Psychology
• Fundamentalist Mindset
• Funds of Identity
• G
• Gaze
• Gender Bias, Overview
• Gender, Overview
• Gender-Based Violence
• Gendered Subjectivity
• Genetic Counseling, Overview
• Genius
• Genocide, Overview
• German Critical Psychology
• German Political Psychology
• Geropsychology, Overview
• Ghostwriting
• Global Justice
• Globalization, Overview
• Governmentality
• Grief
• Grounded Theory Methodology
• Guilt
• H
• Habitus
• Harm Reduction, Overview
• Healers
• Health Psychology
• Hermeneutics
• Heteronormativity
• Heterotopia, Overview
• Historiography
• History of Psychology
• Holocaust
• Homelessness, Overview
• Homophobia, Overview
• Homosexuality, Overview
• Hope, Overview
• Housework
• Housing First
• Human Rights
• Humanism
• Humanistic Psychology
• Humor
• Hybridity
• Hypothesis-Testing, Overview
• I
• Identity
• Identity Politics
• Indian Psychology
• Indigenization, Overview
• Indigenous Psychology
• Individualization, Overview
• Informed Consent, Overview
• Inner Speech
• Integration, Overview
• Intellectual Disability
• Intercultural Communication, Overview
• Interculturality
• Internal/External Dichotomy
• Internalized Oppression
• Internationalization
• Interobjectivity
• Interpretation
• Intersectionality
• Intersubjectivity, Overview
• Intervention
• Interview
• Intimate Justice
• Introjection
• Intuition
• Italian Critical Psychology
• J
• Justification, Overview
• K
• Kibbutz
• Knowledge Representation
• L
• Lacanian Psychoanalysis
• Land Ownership and Gender
• Language and Speech
• Language Development
• Latin American Psychology
• Leadership, Overview
• Learning
• LGBTQ Psychology
• Liberation Psychology
• Libido
• Lifestyle
• Looping Effect
• Love, Overview
• M
• Macro Cultural Psychology
• Madness
• Mainstream Psychology
• Mapping
• Marriage Equality
• Marriage, Institution of
• Marxist Feminism
• Masculinity
• Master-Slave Dialectic
• Matriarchy
• Meditation, Overview
• Memory Disorders
• Meritocracy
• Metapsychology
• Methodologism/Methodological Imperative
• Migration, Overview
• Mindfulness, Overview
• Minorities
• Mixed Methods, Overview
• Modernity
• Motivation, Overview
• Music
• Myth
• N
• Narcissism, Overview
• Narrative Psychology
• Natural and Human Kinds
• Nature and Nurture
• Neoliberalism
• Neurophenomenology
• Neuroscience
• Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches
• Nonverbal Communication
• Nonviolence
• Normative Unconscious Processes
• O
• Obesity, Overview
• Objectification
• Objectivity
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Overview
• Ontogeny, Overview
• Operationism
• Oppression
• Orientalism
• Other
• Othering
• Overdiagnosis
• P
• Pain, Overview
• Panic Disorders
• Panopticon
• Paranoia
• Participatory Action Research
• Pathologization
• Patriarchy
• Pedagogy
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Perception
• Performative Psychology
• Person
• Personal Construct Psychology
• Personality
• Personality Disorders, Overview
• Persons with Disabilities
• Phenomenological Psychology
• Phenomenology
• Philosophical Psychology, Overview
• Place
• Pluralism
• Policy, Overview
• Political Psychology
• Polyamory
• Positioning
• Positive Psychology
• Positivism
• Postcolonial Psychology
• Postmodern Marxism
• Postmodern Psychology
• Postpartum Depression
• Post-structuralism
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Poverty
• Power, Overview
• Power-Knowledge
• Practice Research
• Precarity
• Prejudice
• Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
• Prevention
• Pride
• Privilege
• Professions and Professionalization
• Project Camelot
• Projection, Overview
• Projective Identification, Overview
• Psy Disciplines
• Psyche
• Psychic Space, Colonization
• Psychic Structures
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychologization
• Psychology of Art/Art Therapy
• Psychology of Oppression
• Psychology, Critical Teaching of
• Psychometrics
• Psychopolitical Validity
• Psychosis
• Psychosocial Theory
• Psychotherapy
• Psy-complex
• Publication Manuals
• Publishing, Overview
• Q
• Qualitative Research
• Quantitative Research
• Queer Theory
• R
• Race
• Race Psychology
• Racialization and Deracialization
• Radical Behaviorism
• Recognition Versus Redistribution
• Recovery, Overview
• Reductionism
• Reflexivity
• Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
• Research Ethics, Overview
• Researcher-Participant Relationship
• Revolution
• Rhetoric
• Rights, Overview
• S
• Sadism/Masochism
• Savage Versus Civilized
• Schizophrenia
• Scientific Racism
• Self, Overview
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Harm
• Self-Regulated Learning
• Self-Stigmatization
• Semiotics, Overview
• Sex/Gender Differences
• Sexism
• Sexology
• Sexual Harassment: Laws, Incidence, and Organizational Responses
• Sexual Identity
• Sexual Violence
• Sexualization
• Shame
• Sin, Overview
• Situatedness
• Situationism
• Skin Bleaching
• Social Change
• Social Constructionism
• Social Distance
• Social Dominance Theory
• Social Identity Theory
• Social Justice, Overview
• Social Movements
• Social Psychology
• Social Representations
• Social Reproduction
• Social Therapy
• Social Values
• Social Work
• Socialism, Overview
• Socialization
• Solipsism
• Soviet Psychology
• Space, Overview
• Spectacle
• Spirituality
• Statistics, Overview
• Status Quo Maintenance
• Stereotypes, Overview
• Stress
• Subject
• Subject Matter of Psychology
• Subjectification
• Subjectivity, Overview
• Suffering
• Surveillance
• Surveillance Threat
• Sustainability
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Synchronicity, Overview
• Systemic Family Psychotherapy
• Systems of Critiques
• T
• Taboo, Overview
• Tabula Rasa
• Teacher
• Technologies of Self/Subjectivity
• Technology
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Theistic Approaches to Psychology
• Thematic Analysis
• Theoretical Psychology
• Theory
• Theory and Praxis
• Therapeutic Culture
• Time, Overview
• Tools, Overview
• Torture
• Traits
• Transculturalism
• Transdisciplinarity
• Transformation, Overview
• Transgender, Overview
• Transgression
• Transnational Migration Theory
• Transpersonal Psychology, Overview
• Transsexualism, Overview
• Trauma
• U
• Unconscious
• Unemployment
• Universalism
• Universalization
• V
• Value Neutrality
• Values/Value Systems
• Variable, Overview
• Voicelessness
• Völkerpsychologie
• Volunteerism
• W
• Well-being
• Whiteness
• Wisdom, Overview
• Womanism
• Worldview
• Z
• Zionism
• Zone of Emotional Development
• Zone of Proximal Development