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Beyond the Psychology Industry

How Else Might We Heal?

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  • Provides an overview of everyday, activist, community, and art-based approaches to healing and recovery

  • Offers a unique criticism of mainstream psychology

  • Discusses contemporary critical psychology, specifically addressing the issue of therapeutic practices outside of mainstream psychology

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
  2. A Drifters Handbook

    • Paul Rhodes
    Pages 1-9
  3. Emotional Pain and Suffering: The Search for Global Solutions

    • Ross G. Menzies, Rachel E. Menzies
    Pages 11-22
  4. Attachment to Irreplaceable Others

    • Jennifer Fitzgerald
    Pages 23-33
  5. Poetry as Therapy

    • Jhilmil Breckenridge
    Pages 35-40
  6. The Art of Social Prescription

    • Katherine M. Boydell
    Pages 41-48
  7. Peer Support and Open Dialogue: Possibilities for Transformation and Resistance in Mental Health Services

    • Holly Kemp, Brett Bellingham, Katherine Gill, Andrea McCloughen, Cath Roper, Niels Buus et al.
    Pages 49-67
  8. Community Interventions in Conflict Settings

    • Omar Said Yousef, Abdulrahman Alhalabi, Zachary Steel, Sertan Saral, Ruth Wells
    Pages 69-82
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 123-127

About this book

This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry. While there are many books that deconstruct or dismantle clinical psychology, few provide a compendium of potential alternatives to mainstream practice. Focusing on five main themes in reference to this objective: suffering, decolonization, dialogue, feminism and the arts, these pages explore types of personal inquiry, cultural knowledge or community action that might help explain and heal psychological pain beyond the confines of the therapy room. Chapters focus on the role of cultural knowledge, including spiritual traditions, relational being, art, poetry, feminism and indigenous systems in promoting healing and on community-based-initiatives, including open dialogue, justice-based collaboration and social prescribing. Beyond the Psychology Industry will be of interest to researchers, clinical psychologists, therapists, academics in mental health, and cultural psychologists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Paul Rhodes

About the editor

​Paul Rhodes is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney and co-chair of the Critical and Post-Structural Psychology Special Interest Group at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. He has published over 75 peer reviewed articles related to family therapy, anorexia nervosa, developmental disabilities, the recovery movement, philosophy and other topics. He has a long practice and academic career as a family therapist, qualitative researcher and author, championing alternative modes of therapy to traditional models predicated on individualism. 

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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