Introduction

The crisis within upper-class psychology compelled some psychologists to interrogate its foundations with renewed rigour. Critical psychology’s structures are still expanding and its personnel are still enhancing their reputations through accumulating prestige. Undoubtedly the application of its theoretical heritage to new fields and subjects will continue to throw up interesting ideas. Nevertheless, the creeping obsolescence of postmodernism will inevitably catch up with critical psychology and expose it at every future turn. Psychology has always reminded me of an alcoholic in recovery. It seems forever one drink away from falling off the wagon, and turning a mishap into a crisis. Its numerous crises are usually blamed on methodological confusion, or dualistic thinking, or a tendency to reduce complex phenomena to one dimension of analysis. Its epistemology and ontology are charged with criminal intent and brought to justice and yet the crisis ridden nature of psychology persists.