From Critical Psychology and Social Practice: “Scholars in critical psychology have demonstrated how the dominant ‘scientific’ and applied psychologies (and psychologists, therapists, and counselors) have directly and indirectly sustained social injustice. We identify this injustice in social systems characterized by dehumanizing violence, colonialism/coloniality, exploitation, and social exclusion – each channeled by classism, sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination and domination. We also expose and condemn the ideological matrices that support militarism, the prison-industrial complex, consumerism, police brutality, and environmental destruction, to name a few. And, closest to psychology itself, we critique and challenge a wide range of abuses and human rights violations in what is known as the psy-complex (psychiatry, diagnostic procedures, psychological assessment practices in education and the workplace, and so on). Demonstrating exactly how these forms of collusion and direct participation in oppression and ideological processes work is part of the task of critical psychologies. Beyond critique, however, is the challenge of developing practices and action that disrupt and transform these structures of domination…
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