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Is community psychology one thing? Is clinical psychology one thing? Aren’t both struggling to understand individuals and groups in the context of the world and societies we all live in. The current resurgence of interest in population level and community approaches in clinical psychology could be seen as some neoliberal plot to castrate community psychology and colonise more ‘patients’ or an interesting and important development that could be examined critically and in a spirit of interest, comradeship and joint enquiry? Psychology’s ability to fragment and form rival churches is part of its richness but also its folly and betrayal of many of the most vulnerable, marginalised and devalued citizens.

This is where I/we am/are coming this year https://richardpemberton.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/2016-a-defining-year-for-clinical-psychology-the-british-psychological-society-and-the-division-of-clinical-division/

Richard


On 19 Jan 2016, at 10:10, David Fryer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

The attraction of community psychology for many of us is / was that it was NOT clinical psychology. Clinical psychology is a conduit for the medical model in relation to 'mental health', one of the most problematic manifestations of the mainstream psy-complex, characterised by 'normal' modernist, 'evidence based' scientism, largely decontextualised, depoliticised, individualistic, and so on and so forth . . .  all the things and more which more progressive community psychologists used to be trying to get away from.  "Running a community psychology stream/events alongside or linked to next DCP conference." No thanks.

David 


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