ABSTRACT

This book review essay of Ian Parker’s Psychology through Critical Auto-ethnography has three objectives. The first is to provide an assessment of Parker’s unique contribution to the field of Critical Psychology. Parker’s critique of the psy-sciences is shown to offer a key challenge not only to mainstream psychology but also to those who envision themselves working in the field of Critical Psychology: how not to relapse in the traps of mainstream psychology and psychologisation? The second objective is to scrutinize Parker’s idiosyncratic use of the methodology of auto-ethnography. Here it is argued, again, that Parker’s appropriation of this method not only is ideally positioned to question the problematic field of mainstream psychology, but also opens up a different perspective on subjectivity and sociality that should challenge Critical Psychology. The third objective is to apply these insights to the Covid crisis: if Parker enjoins us to step outside the psy-complex and “find many other ways to live together without it,” the entry of mainstream psychology into the Covid-debate, claiming expert knowledge on how we should live apart/together, should be confronted head-on. To achieve these three objectives, the author also uses a moderate dose of auto-ethnography.

摘要

伊恩·帕克 (Ian Parker) 的《通过批判性自我民族志心理学》的书评文章有三个目标。首先是评估帕克对批判心理学领域的独特贡献。帕克对心理科学的批判被证明不仅对主流心理学，而且对那些设想自己在批判心理学领域工作的人提出了一个关键挑战：如何不重新陷入主流心理学和心理学化的陷阱？第二个目标是审查帕克对自我民族志方法论的特殊使用。在这里，再次论证，帕克对这种方法的挪用不仅理想地定位于质疑主流心理学的问题领域，但也开辟了一个关于主观性和社会性的不同观点，应该挑战批判心理学。第三个目标是将这些见解应用于 Covid 危机：如果帕克命令我们走出心理复杂性并“找到许多其他方式在没有它的情况下共同生活”，那么主流心理学进入 Covid 辩论，声称专家关于我们应该如何分开/一起生活的知识，应该正面面对。为了实现这三个目标，作者还使用了中等剂量的自我民族志。应该正面面对。为了实现这三个目标，作者还使用了中等剂量的自我民族志。应该正面面对。为了实现这三个目标，作者还使用了中等剂量的自我民族志。