Marxism as a Link between Mainstream Psychology and Critical Psychology

Reconnecting Psychoanalysis to Mainstream Psychology: Metaphor as Glue

In recent decades, psychoanalysts have examined the role of metaphor in psychodynamic theory and therapy, but the uses of metaphor in psychoanalytic research have received only modest attention. After briefly reviewing extant psychoanalytic writings on metaphor, we discuss how research from outside psychoanalysis (i.e., studies of embodied affect–space links, mental images and prototypes, and a...

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

Toward a Critical Race Psychology

Critical Race Theory (CRT) emerged as an identity-conscious intervention within critical legal studies and has subsequently developed an interdisciplinary presence. We draw upon CRT perspectives to articulate five core ideas for a Critical Race Psychology (CRP). CRT perspectives (1) approach racism as a systemic force embedded in everyday society (rather than a problem of individual bias); (2) ...

Enhancing Health and Emotion: Mindfulness as a Missing Link Between Cognitive Therapy and Positive Psychology

Mindfiilness meditation is an increasingly popular intervention for the treatment of physical illnesses and psychological difficulties. Using intervention strategies with mechanisms familiar to cognitive behavioral therapists, the principles and practice of mindfijlness meditation offer promise for promoting many of the most basic elements of positive psychology. It is proposed that mindfulness...

Russian psychology: a critical history

proceedings elucidate a central historic paradox articulated by the keynote speaker. Wilbur Cohen was former HEW administrator and Secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He directed passage of the Medicare law, then saw it implemented. Cohen theorized in his keynote address that Medicare "was born more of social conviction than of research findings". Ironically this publication, which ...