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Title: Psychology and Society: Radical Theory and Practice by Ian Parker, Russell Spears ISBN: 0-7453-0879-1 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Summary: An excellent resource on Marxism and psychology
Comment: Extract from a longer review to be published in Psychology in Society (PINS): Psychology constitutes a flight from the real in two ways - firstly in that it imagines its object of study, the individual psyche, as separate from the historically specific economic and political realities which bring that subject into being, and secondly in that it imagines itself as a discipline functioning in a realm of ideas and facts independent of such realities. Marxism is a powerful antidote to such idealist tendencies, and this is well canvassed in the Parker & Spears volume - although probably not in a sufficiently elementary or forceful manner to garner many new recruits. Although this is a pity, it remains an impressive attempt to reclaim Marxism for psychology, and to collect together some of the best recent work in this tradition. There is also a subtext evident in many of the chapters, which speaks of a healthy impatience to start turning theoretical formulations into programmatic critical action within and beyond academia.

With the radical psychologists' organisation, Psychology Politics Resistance, starting to gain momentum and new initiatives, such as the planned international action research conference in July 1999, I expect that we will hear much more of this in the near future. If this is the case, the current volume will serve as a useful resource on the theoretical background to and conceptual and practical dangers of such action.

Martin Terre Blanche