Community psychology and politics
作者:
David Smail,
期刊:
Journal of Community&Applied Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 1
页码: 3-10
ISSN:1052-9284
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/casp.2450040103
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
关键词: Community psychology;politics;empowerment;power;psychotherapy;responsibility
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractIf community psychology is to profit from its experience to develop an accurate and consistent theory of the effect on individuals of societal pressures, it will need to review reflexively its own position in relation to politics and empowerment. Despite an inspirational and at times positively grandiose rhetoric, psychologists are in fact in no particularly powerful position to influence the factors which cause personal distress, and should not, through a pretence of therapeutic potency, ‘psychologize’ the notion of ‘empowerment’ and reinforce therapeutic ideals which are in fact destructively normative. Without attempting to appropriate politics, community psychology can, however, offer an essentially scientific analysis of power and distress, which may have therapeutically ‘demystifying’ qualities as well as important political implications for the wi
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