Beyond Adaptation

The Unity of Personal and Social Change in Critical Psychology and Cultural-Historical Theory

By: Eileen Wengemuth (Editor), Till Manderbach (Editor), Sigga Waleng (Editor), Peter Brook (Editor), Johanna Ruge (Editor)

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Paperback | 12 November 2024

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This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines' entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile individual support with social justice. In current times of accelerating crises, professionals often see only few opportunities to influence the conditions of their work. Thinking and acting beyond adaptation, authors from seven countries provide inspiration for researchers, practitioners, and students who want to be more than brokers of a broken system.

Cultural-Historical Theory is a powerful framework that can depict the dynamic of individual minds in society. Building on this, Critical Psychology has formulated an elaborate theory of human agency. Linking individual and social change needs such theorizing. This volume is a rare intellectual exchange by scholars drawing on these traditions. An alternative to both control science and abstract criticism, it inquires the capacity to act.

The editors took part in organizing the Summer School Critical Psychology in Berlin, which inspired this volume.

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This excellent work was compiled by a new generation of ingenious editors. Dialogically organized and containing chapters and commentaries by leading researchers, the book moves our focus from what happens to what is possible in developing mental life and human activity. Thoughtfully advanced and providing a fresh perspective on agency, this volume opens new ways of thinking and doing for cultural-historical and critical psychologists and beyond.

Thomas Teo Professor of Psychology, York University

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