Ian Parker has asked me to post this, which clarifies the position between
those known as 'critical psychologists' and those known as 'community
psychologists' in and around the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
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I have seen Mark's provocative contribution on the difference between the
use of a critical theoretical framework on the one hand and the worst of
simple critical complaint on the other.
Mark and I agree about lots of things, but I count him as one of my
comrades in the attempt to engage in genuine constructive critical
theoretical work. There is an overlap between what I try to do under the
rubric 'critical psychology' - in which I take my distance from the
'postmodern' relativist merely academic attempt to carve out
a market niche for the 'criticals' - and what Mark is doing in the sphere of
'community psychology'.
This overlap is where we stand together, community and criticals, at MMU.
Ian Parker
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From Mark Burton
Manchester UK
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