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De‐psychologizing community psychology
Author(s) -
Smail David
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.621
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , power (physics) , community psychology , sociology , environmental ethics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Despite their welcome emphasis on the influence of environmental factors on the generation of distress, and on the central role in this of power, the contributors to this special issue still seem unable entirely to avoid ‘psychologizing’ the processes involved. It is suggested that a far more radical rejection of ‘interior’ psychological and moral concepts (e.g. ‘self‐esteem’, ‘responsibility’) could be undertaken without our having to abandon the project of psychology altogether. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.