Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power

This book introduces and applies Foucault's most important concepts and procedures, and does so specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on the recently published College de France lectures "Abnormal" (2003) and "Psychiatric Power" (2006), "Foucauldian Analytics and Psychology" is as useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the "psy-disciplines" as it is to those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods.

DEREK HOOK is Lecturer in the Institute of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, UK. He is also a Research Associate in Psychology at the School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published articles on Foucault, critical psychology, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory and the social psychology of "race" and racism.