Psychology & Social Criticism
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| description | Trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | psychology |
| publishing company | Pabst Science Publishers |
| First edition | 1977 |
| Frequency of publication | four times a year, including a double issue |
| editor | Lars Allolio-Näcke (Erlangen) Markus Brunner (Vienna) Charlotte Busch (Frankfurt a. M.) Katharina Hametner (Vienna) Peter Mattes (Berlin / Vienna) Nora Ruck (Vienna / Toronto) Tom D. Uhlig (Frankfurt a. M.) ) |
| Web link | Homepage of the magazine at the publisher |
| ISSN (print) | 0170-0537 |
Psychology and Social Criticism is one of the few critical-psychological journals from the 1970s that still exists. P&G is regarded as an unorthodox organ of critical psychology, mostly received as a discourse and stimulus-giving journal of the ›small-k‹ critical psychology (in contrast to the ›large-K‹ critical psychology of the school of Klaus Holzkamp ).
Historical
Psychology & Social Criticism was founded in 1977 by Siegfried Grubitzsch and Günter Rexilius under the title Psychology & Society . Peter Mattes, who is the only one of the founding fathers still working in the editorial team, was co-editor from the very beginning. In 1979 the magazine was renamed »Psychology & Social Criticism«, because there was already a series of books entitled Psychology & Society . Although founded as a critical psychological journal, the authors went from P & G a path other than the "Holzenkamp School" by deliberately no cohesive theory was developed, which meant, the group that at P & G so that the commitment to a unifying doctrine withdrew . In contrast to Holzkamp's critical psychology, Marxist social theory gradually lost its fundamental importance. This is why P&G can be characterized less by theoretical determinations than by the main topics that formed the nodes of critical-psychological discussions. Some topic clusters (according to publication period): Psychiatry , Therapy , Psychosocial Practice (1978–80); Psychology and Politics , Psychology under National Socialism (1979/80); Aesthetic Action , Mass Communication and Media (1981); Presumptions, Industrialized Psyche (1982); Therapeutic work, institutional practice, social control (1983/84); Women and Psychology (from 1983); Identity , Subjectivity , Subject and Politics (1987/89); Nazi era, euthanasia and modernization (1991); Postmodern challenges, constructions, self-being (1992/93), subject constructions and subjectification (1996 ff.), The gender problem, childhood and youth (from 2002), critical-psychoanalytically inspired topics and contributions (from 2003) - and again and again the critical- deconstructivist view of different areas of life, culture and institutional areas. From the 1990s onwards, the influence of poststructuralist and discourse-analytical concepts became increasingly noticeable, as well as an orientation towards postmodernist philosophy from France and North America, including social constructionism . Psychology & Social Criticism became the organ that diversified critical psychologies in German-speaking countries. In critical psychology, as it appears in Psychology & Social Criticism , psychological criticism is understood as the scientific deconstruction of power and as the detection of possibilities to think differently in and around psychology, to cultivate 'subjugating' ( Foucault ) types of discourse, to deal with dictates to withdraw from normal scientific discourse.
Since the mid-1990s, the magazine has been managed by publisher collectives of varying composition. The editors initially included people mainly from the Federal Republic and West Berlin milieu , since 1990 from German and Austrian university institutes, where they conducted mainstream-critical and alternative teaching and research; mainly from the universities of Bielefeld, Oldenburg, GH Wuppertal, Bremen, FU Berlin, later Munich, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Vienna. Over the years, Psychology & Social Criticism has developed into a magazine, the main topics of which have traced, accompanied and actively influenced the movements of critical intellectual discourses in and around psychology.
Psychology & Social Criticism appears as a German-language magazine with four issues per year; mostly a double issue. P&G is in its 38th year in 2014 and will publish its 150th themed issue this year. For several years now, P&G has been participating in the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR), where all contributions published in P&G are retrospectively available for download. Contributions that are less than two years old are not taken into account.
Program
As the organ that accompanies and criticizes "mainstream psychology", P&G endeavors to counter the efforts to standardize psychological knowledge using a one-sided scientific method. In doing so, P&G relies on approaches of critical psychology from the Anglo-Saxon field, which have successfully established themselves there, on discourse theory and analysis, narrative and (de) constructivist approaches, science and technology studies, gender research and "psychoanalysis beyond the couch". P&G mainly publishes theoretical but also empirical articles based on qualitative social research .
Peer review
P&G is a peer-reviewed journal. In the first instance, the submitted manuscripts are checked by the editors to ensure that their content matches the issue line and, in the second instance, they are passed on to two reviewers for peer review. The reviewers are on the one hand external persons and / or from the group of editors. The final decision on the basis of the reports is made by the editors.
editor
- Lars Allolio-Näcke, Erlangen
- Markus Brunner, Vienna
- Charlotte Busch, Frankfurt a. M.
- Katharina Hametner, Vienna
- Peter Mattes, Berlin / Vienna
- Nora Ruck, Vienna / Toronto
- Tom David Uhlig, Frankfurt a. M.
Former editors:
- Siegfried Grubitzsch
- Günter Rexilius
- Ali Wacker
- Helga Bamberger
- Christiane Schmerl
- Frank Nestmann
- Norbert W. Geib
- Klaus-Jürgen brother
- Adam Zurek
- Wolfgang Deubelius
- Ruth large measure
- Klaus Weber
- Jutta A. Metzger
- Birgit Mueller
- Tamara Musfeld
- Ralf Quindel
- Markus Fellner
- Susan Petzold
- Karoline Tschuggnall
- Carola Stender
- Lisa Schoenberg
- Ulrich Kobbé
- Barbara Zielke