Outsight
About This Book
Psychology, the authors argue, has a blind spot. When people in pain seek its help, the discipline keeps peering into the individual mind for faults. They call for a change of direction, a shift of attention toward the surroundings in which people live. Distress, they contend, rarely springs from a defective brain. It more often grows out of damaging family situations, troubled communities, harmful workplaces and a wider social order marked by inequality, injustice and environmental collapse. The book is written by the Midlands Psychology Group, a team of counselling, clinical and academic psychologists who draw on the thinking of David Smail. They set out a social-materialist psychology, an approach concerned with how our shared physical world shapes what we think, feel and do. They also argue that the profession has too often served the economic systems that govern the lives of many people in industrialised countries, and they propose that compassionate solidarity should guide its work. The authors aim to encourage this change and to equip psychologists to question, contest and even transform their own practice.
ISBN: 9781915220103
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