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  1. Against relativism in psychology, on balance.Ian Parker - 1999 - History of the Human Sciences 12 (4):61-78.
    Relativism in psychology unravels the truth-claims and oppressive\npractices of the discipline, but simply relativizing psychological knowledge\nhas not been sufficient to comprehend and combat the discipline\nas part of the ‘psy-complex’. For that, a balanced review of the contribution\nand problems of relativism needs to work dialectically, and so\nthis article reviews four problematic rhetorical balancing strategies in\nrelativism before turning to the contribution of critical realism. Critical\nrealism exposes positivist psychology’s pretensions to model itself\non what it imagines the natural sciences to be, and it grounds (...)
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  • The foundations of critical psychology.Ronald Mather - 2000 - History of the Human Sciences 13 (2):85-100.
    The recent turn to discursive psychology has prompted an increasing interest in the work of Michel Foucault, particularly with relation to debates on the possibility and nature of ‘discourse analysis’. This variant of discourse analysis has generally emphasized the utility of Foucauldian insights in critiquing existent psychological practices as a manifestation of the proliferation of disciplinary forms in Western society. This utility may have been dramatically over-stated. Key concepts such as discursive practices and power are inextricably linked to theoretical frameworks (...)
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  • The "boomerang" effect of radicalism in discursive psychology: A critical overview of the controversy with the social representations theory.Annamaria Silvana de Rosa - 2006 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 36 (2):161–201.
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