Ian Parker
Ian Parker is Professor of Psychology in the Discourse Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is widely published, and his books include The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology (1989), Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society (1997), Critical Discursive Psychology (2002), Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction (2004) and Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation (2008).
Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic discourse in Western society
Systematically reviews the key psychoanalytic theories and explores their relevance to modern life. Classical Freudian and object-relations theory is directed at the problem of group processes; ideas... (more)
Deconstructing Psychotherapy
Taking the discursive and postmodern turn in psychotherapy a significant step forward, this book reflects on the role of psychotherapy in contemporary culture, develops critiques of language in... (more)
Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism
Offers a broad-ranging perspective of the contemporary debates surrounding social constructionist perspectives in psychology. The contributors map connections between theory, method, and politics in... (more)
Deconstructing Psychopathology
This accessible text provides a critical perspective on the institutions, practices and presuppositions that underlie the study of "psychopathology". The authors, coming from backgrounds in clinical... (more)
Critical Discursive Psychology
Critical Discursive Psychology addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates. Key... (more)
Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation
'This book arises out of an important international conference held in March 2006 to discuss how regulation by the state has affected psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline in many different parts... (more)
Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious
Addresses three key questions: Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?, What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?, and What do we learn about ourselves from Japan? The book is about... (more)
From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious: Lacan, Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology
This striking Lacanian contribution to discourse analysis is also a critique of contemporary psychological abstraction, as well as a reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity
Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysis looks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and... (more)
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy
Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the... (more)
Psychology After Psychoanalysis: Psychosocial Studies and Beyond
Why is psychoanalysis now re-emerging as a sub-discipline inside psychology? What is the value of using psychoanalytic ideas to develop psychosocial research? How does psychoanalysis tackle the... (more)
Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan
What is the role of 'representation' in Freud's concept of the unconscious? What are the implications for our understanding of language in the clinic? How does Lacan radicalise this 'unconscious' in... (more)
Psychology After Lacan: Connecting the Clinic and Research
Why is Lacanian psychoanalysis now appearing in psychology? What innovative account does it offer of the human subject? What are the implications for psychology as a separate discipline? This volujme... (more)
Slavoj Zizek: A Critical Introduction
Since the publication of his first book in English in 1989, Slavoj Zizek has quickly become one of the most widely read and contentious intellectuals alive today. With dazzling wit and tremendous... (more)
Psy-Complex in Question: Critical Review in Psychology Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent... (more)
Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam: Cultural and Clinical Dialogues
This pioneering volume brings together scholars and clinicians working at the intersection of Islam and psychoanalysis to explore both the connections that link these two traditions, as well as the... (more)
Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography
Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about... (more)