Social Constructionist Psychology: A Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice
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Abstract
Preface: what's wrong with social constructionism? Part 1 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. Part 2 Materiality and embodiment: between the dark and the light - power and the material contexts of social relations or materiality? impure alternatives for recurrent debates discourse and the embodied person the extra-discursive in social constructionism realism, constructionism and phenomenology taking ourselves seriously. Part 3 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.