RadPsyNet Documents

On this page To include your documents Documents: articles & papers related to radical psychology theory & practice Selected newsletter articles Books by RadPsyNet members Critical Psychology Teaching Materials: with lists of suggested readings

Stephanie Austin Volker Bunzendahl Duncan Double Carrie Drake Dennis Fox Bob Gregory Cameron Norman Suzan Oudejans Isaac Prilleltensky Al Siebert Eberhard Wenzel Kathy Wilson Neil Wollman   Newsletter Articles

Our goal?

To disseminate material of interest to radical and other critical psychologists.

Topics include critical psychology, psychology and social change, radical perspectives on social issues, organizing and tactical issues, teaching materials, and anything else readers of this site might find useful: theoretical debates, tactical alternatives, student/faculty concerns, and so on.

The documents:

• summaries, selected quotations, subheadings, and information on how to obtain the printed version for published articles and longer unpublished papers written by RadPsyNet members and others
• complete versions of short unpublished papers
• links to material published in RadPsyNews, our former paper newsletter

Note:

• Conference announcements, job openings, and similar notices are listed separately.
• Send book reviews and book announcements for our Books & Reviews Page.
• Critical Psychology Teaching Materials

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• Best Method: Put the document on your own web site and e-mail the URL. We'll include the link here. We'd like to set up a network of linked radical psychology sites.
• Acceptable Method: Send us your own documents to include.

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Documents & Document Links

Cameron Norman

• A Radical Approach to Psychology and Public Policy (APAGS Newsletter, in press)

Neil Wollman

• Influencing Attitudes and Behaviors for Social Change
• Dealing With or Preventing Burnout in Activist Work
• Did the American People Really Vote for Moderation? (with Leonard Williams)
• Principles for Promoting Social Change (with Margaret Lobenstine, Maria Foderaro, & Stephen Stose) Available on the SPSSI site: the complete SPSSI-published booklet

Isaac Prilleltensky

• Sabbatical Report (10/98; prepared for Wilfrid Laurier Graduate Student Bulletin; Isaac on his trip to Cuba, professional ethics, critical psychology UK vs. North America, and the search for a bran muffin)
• Values, Discourse and Action: On the Morality of Psychological Practice (APA paper 8/96)
• Human, Moral, and Political Values For An Emancipatory Psychology
• Critical Psychology: An Introduction (edited book)
• Columns on Children, Psychology, & Values
  • Children versus Capital: Redefining the Public Agenda
  • Child Abuse: How Much Longer?
  • Children's Rights: Who Cares?
  • Values in Disarray Harm Children

Dennis Fox

• Organizing Critical Psychologists: The RadPsyNet Experience (keynote address, Monterey Bay Critical Psychology Conference)
• The Critical Psychology Project: Transforming Society and Transforming Psychology (chapter in Tod Sloan's Critical Psychology: Voices for Change, 2000)
• RadPsyNet, Psychology, & Public Policy (APAGS Newsletter, Winter 1998)
• Can the Radical Psychology Network's Critique Make SPSSI More Resilient? (APA paper 8/95)
• Other publications and papers, including material on:
  • Critical Psychology: An Introduction (edited book)
  • achieving ideological change in psychology
  • psychological jurisprudence & justice
  • balancing autonomy and community
  • anarchism & psychology
  • corporate harms
  • false consciousness about law's legitimacy
  • anti-technology rant
  • mental disability evaluation
  • pressures to publish
  • UIS campus issues, including:
    • union-busting amid university restructuring
    • cops on campus

Al Siebert

• Media Neglected Issues in Mental Health

Carrie Drake

• Is Mental Pain Mental Illness?

Kathy Wilson

• The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry
• Gender as Illness: Issues of Psychiatric Classification

Eberhard Wenzel

• List of papers
  • AIDS health promotion for youth: Conceptual framework and practical implications
  • Body in time - timeless body. A patchwork of thoughts
  • Conceptual issues in worksite health promotion
  • How modern is post-modern? An argument for a dear friend
  • Environment, development and health. Ideological metaphors of post-traditional societies?
  • Women, body and society. Cross-cultural differences in menopause experiences
  • A comment on settings in health promotion
  • Health and human rights in the era of globalization

Volker Bunzendahl

• Reflections on the June 1997 "Unscientific Psychology" Conference

Bob Gregory

• The Cancer in Our Community

Suzan Oudejans

Article about Klaus Holzkamp's critical psychology (in Dutch) touches on RadPsyNet's eclectic approach.

Duncan Double

• Can Psychiatry be Retrieved from a Biological Approach?

Stephanie Austin

• Guidelines for Action: Research Project Feedback (on emancipatory critical psychology)

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Selected Newsletter Articles 1993-1996 

• Radical Psychologists: Who are we? What should we do? (Tor Neilands)
• The Need for a Radical Psychology (Bob Gregory)
• New Member Questions (John Lawrence)
  • Now We Need Answers (Dennis Fox)
• More New Member Questions, Undergraduate Version (J. Phillip Koebe)
• Radicalizing Undergraduate Education (Cameron Norman)
• Reading Suggestions (Submitted by members)
• Conference Paper Acceptance Policies (Dennis Fox)

• Working as a Radpsycher (Peter Cobrin) 
• Radical Psychology in Chicago/SCRA Meeting (Isaac Prilleltensky)
• "Radicalizing" Organized Psychology (Eliot Levine)
• SKEPO: Psychology's Indonesian Critics (Titis Lubis)
• Memories from Spain (Isaac Prilleltensky) 
• Psychology Politics Resistance in the UK (Ian Parker) 
• Defense Funding for Psychologists: A Hot Issue (Bob Gregory) 
• A Grim Scenario for the Millennium (Bob Gregory) 
• Psychology & Social Ethics: Limitations & Challenges (Isaac Prilleltensky) 

• Radical Therapy Movement/Reading Suggestions (Joy Marcus)
• Becoming Radicalized (Anonymous) 
• Conscious Choice (Ron Bassman) 
• Conscious Choice II (Ron Bassman) 
• Collaborative Empowerment (Ron Bassman)

• Musings from a Radio Show Host (Nancy Norvell) 
• "Radical University" Celebrates 25th Year and Dies (Dennis Fox)

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