Bendle, Mervyn F. (2001) Being critical in a globalised world. Australian Psychologist, 36 (1). pp. 81-83.

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Abstract

Critical psychology in Australia must realise its intellectual promise as a critical discourse within psychology and the human sciences generally. This task is made imperative by the rise of globalisation and the social and political challenges it is producing, and by the genetic determinism associated with the Human Genome Project. Critical psychology must also analyse and critique the recent sharp turn towards scientism and the increasing reliance on American taxonomies of psychological "illness" represented by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It must also engage with the rise of identity politics and the emergence of new forms of subjectivity under the impact of globalisation.

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