Introduction. Part 1: Texts and Rhetoric. 1. Prefacing Social Psychology: A Textbook Example, Peter Stringer . 2 Crisis what crisis? Discourses and narratives of the 'social' pyschology, Corrine Squire 3. Rhetoric of Social Psychology, Michael Billig 4. The rhetoric of Pseudoscience, Celia Kitzinger 5. 'I gotta use words when I talk to you': Deconstructing the Theory of Communication, Antony Easthope . Part 2: Power and Science. 6. The abstraction and representation of social psychology, Ian Parker 7. Psychology as a 'social' science, Nikolas Rose 8. Social psychology and Social Control, Edward Sampson 9. All Hail the Great Abstraction: Star Wars and the politics of cognitive psychology, John Bowers 10. What's power got to do with i9t: empowerment and social research, Kum-Kum Bhavnani Part 3: Subjectivity and Individuality 11. Social Individuality versus possessive individualism: The sounds of silence, John Shotter 12. Intergroup Theory and Deconstruction, Mike Michael 13. Researching psychotherapy in Britain: the limits of a psychological approach, David Pilgrim 14. Psychoanalytical Feminism - Deonstructing Power in Theory and therapy, Janet Sayers 15. Differing with Deconstruction: a feminist critique, Erica Burman.
