Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Critical Context -- What is critical social psychology criticizing? -- Stories of class and privilege -- Society, knowledge and subjectivity -- What's in this book? -- Part I Mind and Society -- 2 Social Cognition Critics -- Early critical work in social psychology -- The crisis in social psychology -- Contemporary social cognition -- Application -- Conclusion -- 3 Marxist Critics -- Marxist theory: basic ideas and recent developments -- Ideology and discursive, critical and rhetorical psychology -- Foucault's theoretical development and critique of Marx -- Application -- Conclusion -- 4 Psychoanalytic Critics -- Freud's psychoanalysis and Klein's object relations theory -- Hollway: object relations in critical work -- Parker and Billig's psychoanalytic cultures -- Post-structuralism and psychoanalysis: Lacan and others -- Application -- Conclusion -- 5 Feminist Critics -- What is feminist psychology? -- Sexism and the legitimation of gender inequalities -- Heterosexism and lesbian and gay psychology -- Eating disorders and the body -- Postmodern feminists: contemporary debates -- Feminism and relativism -- Application -- Conclusion -- Part II Resolutions and Dilemmas -- 6 Subjectivity Critics -- Some philosophical explorations of subjectivity -- Critical psychology and subjectivity -- Application and intervention -- Conclusion -- 7 Discourse Critics -- Discourse, psychology and the individual -- Discourse and construction -- Rhetoric and ideological dilemmas -- Applications -- Conclusion -- 8 Postmodern Critics -- Postmodern theories -- Postmodernism, deconstruction and critical social psychology -- Postmodern knowledge and the realism/relativism debate -- Application -- Conclusion -- 9 Integration and Subversions -- Critical assumptions.

Critical practice -- Critical evaluations -- Conclusion: looking to the future -- References -- Index.