Psychology Notes.
The Anti-Psychology, Psychology Movement.
What is community psychology?
When I first studied psychology, twenty years ago, statistics and math featured high in the curriculum, and it still does because research is how we learn and progress. Today, however, scholars are finally digging into the complexities of human nature and recognizing that no one fits in the ‘average’ person box.
Many people enter psychology believing they’ll learn about therapy, but there is much more to it, and because psychology draws from many disciplines, you gain knowledge on a broad range of subjects.
Why we act the way we do, what thoughts and feelings led to such behaviour, where those thoughts and feelings come from, and who we are really, are only some of the questions theorists from multiple disciplines have offered to psychology.
Psychology, through its Western-laden methodologies, has been so focused on the individual that it forgot the role of the collective; even the most hermatized of us struggle to avoid the structures and institutions that govern our existence.
Community psychology resists the individualistic mindset of our governing institutions by challenging:
- The psychological research that’s considered valid and reliable…
