Beyond the Psychology Industry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. A Drifters Handbook

   • Paul Rhodes

   Pages 1-9

3. Emotional Pain and Suffering: The Search for Global Solutions

   • Ross G. Menzies, Rachel E. Menzies

   Pages 11-22

4. Attachment to Irreplaceable Others

   • Jennifer Fitzgerald

   Pages 23-33

5. Poetry as Therapy

   • Jhilmil Breckenridge

   Pages 35-40

6. The Art of Social Prescription

   • Katherine M. Boydell

   Pages 41-48

7. Peer Support and Open Dialogue: Possibilities for Transformation and Resistance in Mental Health Services

   • Holly Kemp, Brett Bellingham, Katherine Gill, Andrea McCloughen, Cath Roper, Niels Buus et al.

   Pages 49-67

8. Community Interventions in Conflict Settings

   • Omar Said Yousef, Abdulrahman Alhalabi, Zachary Steel, Sertan Saral, Ruth Wells

   Pages 69-82

9. Indigenous Clinical Psychology in Australia: A Decolonising Social–Emotional Well-Being Approach

   • Robert Brockman, Pat Dudgeon

   Pages 83-93

10. Reckoning: Reshaping Clinical Practice by Grappling with Privilege and Colonisation

    • Merle Conyer

    Pages 95-111

11. More Than Mechanics: Injury, Running, and Healing

    • Leanne Hall

    Pages 113-122

12. Back Matter

    Pages 123-127

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This book provides a scholarly yet accessible approach to critical psychology, specifically discussing therapeutic practices that are possible outside of the mainstream psychology industry. While there are many books that deconstruct or dismantle clinical psychology, few provide a compendium of potential alternatives to mainstream practice. Focusing on five main themes in reference to this objective: suffering, decolonization, dialogue, feminism and the arts, these pages explore types of personal inquiry, cultural knowledge or community action that might help explain and heal psychological pain beyond the confines of the therapy room. Chapters focus on the role of cultural knowledge, including spiritual traditions, relational being, art, poetry, feminism and indigenous systems in promoting healing and on community-based-initiatives, including open dialogue, justice-based collaboration and social prescribing. Beyond the Psychology Industry will be of interest to researchers, clinical psychologists, therapists, academics in mental health, and cultural psychologists.

• Psychology
• Healing
• Resistence
• Critical Psychology
• Emotional Pain
• Social Perception
• Poetry as Therapy
• Cultural Migration
• Justice-Based Practice

• Clinical Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  Paul Rhodes

​Paul Rhodes is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Sydney and co-chair of the Critical and Post-Structural Psychology Special Interest Group at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. He has published over 75 peer reviewed articles related to family therapy, anorexia nervosa, developmental disabilities, the recovery movement, philosophy and other topics. He has a long practice and academic career as a family therapist, qualitative researcher and author, championing alternative modes of therapy to traditional models predicated on individualism.