Psychology in the Social Imaginary of Neoliberalism

10/12/18

Contributed by Wade Pickren

Wade Pickren, Director of the CFE, served as editor of the Special Issue of Theory & Psychology on Psychology's role in creating and supporting neoliberalism. 

 The current issue of Theory & Psychology covers the ways in which psychology draws from and helps create neoliberal trends in society. The articles include the gendering of neoliberal subjectivity, neoliberalism and racial inequality, its shaping of mental health treatment, neoliberalism's impact on subjectivity, and the neoliberal colonization of the sense of self in India. Pickren contributed the introductory essay, as well. The titles and abstracts can be found here:

http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tapa/current

 

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