ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a summary of some of the principle aspects of critical psychology and contrasts them with positive psychology. It explains that the positive psychology deserves the challenges offered by critical psychology to overall professional practice in people profession, or some way in which positive psychology is actually responding to critical psychology in its practices. The chapter explores how the discipline of critical psychology might influence or inform the development of positive psychology given its relative "youth." Critical psychology proposes two views that challenge and conflict with mainstream psychology. Both critical and positive psychology argue that mainstream psychology "misses" aspects of the delivery and values that would alter the contribution of psychology to the community and broader society. F. Cherry asks, in contrast, whether the judgments of the critical psychologists are too simplistic, arguing that the practice bring to people psychology, whether "mainstream" or "positive," depends on people own motives and values.
