Configuring Psychology
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-71422-8 (ISBN)
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Configuring Psychology offers a vibrant, multimodal sociological analysis of clinical psychology as a profession and practice in the UK. Starting from the widely-accepted principle and goal of enhancing access to care, it examines how political, economic, legal, and social dynamics intertwine with clinical norms and expertise. These interactions configure broader healthcare contexts, defining not only entry into therapy but also exclusion from it. Through close attention to policy developments, professional strategies, and psychologists' experiences, Martyn Pickersgill reveals how access reforms shape clinical knowledge, therapeutic practice, and understandings of psychology itself. He shows how expanding access has become both a moral imperative and a managerial project, with clinical psychologists balancing competing bureaucratic, ethical, and emotional demands in an increasingly strained NHS. As such, Configuring Psychology provides essential insights for social scientists as well as clinicians and policymakers navigating reform. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Martyn Pickersgill is Professor of the Sociology of Science and Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Known internationally for his scholarship on the sociology of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, he is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and winner of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Henry Duncan Medal.
Introduction: psychology, therapy, and society; Part I. Configuring Contexts: 1. Positioning psychology: configuring professional boundaries and identities; 2. Proliferating therapy: the rise of the improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT) initiative; 3. Producing treatability: reconfiguring the subjects of therapy through entwinements of clinical practice and mental health law; Part II. Configuring Care: 4. Prefacing care: the reciprocal configuration of patients, services, and professionals during referral and assessment; 5. Performing autonomy: working with and against healthcare structures to configure access and exclusion; 6. Prompting exclusion: how 'did not attend' policies shape the involuntary discharge of patients; Coda: psychological therapy and the ambivalence of access; References; Acknowledgements.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-71422-6 / 1108714226 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-71422-8 / 9781108714228 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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