Critique of Psychology

Thomas Teo is an Associate Professor of Psychology in the "History and Theory of Psychology Program" at York University, Toronto, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in Austria. His research areas and publications include the historical, epistemological, and ontological foundations of psychology, the critical reflection of psychology as a human science, the history and theory of the concept of race and racism, and the history and theory of German psychology. He is teaching on a regular basis courses on the "History of Psychology," on "Theories of Human Nature," and on "Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Contemporary Psychology."

• On the Historiography of the Critique of Psychology.- Metatheory and the Critique of Psychology.- Kant and Early 19th Century Critics of Psychology.- The Natural-Scientific Critique.- The Human-Scientific Critique.- The Marxist Critique.- The Feminist Critique.- The Postmodern Critique.- The Postcolonial Critique.- Reflections on the Ethical-Political Character of Psychology.

From the reviews of the first edition: "Teo traces the modern critiques of psychology. ... Catching the eye are parts of the post colonial critiques, which provides insight into the institutionalized racism of early psychological researchers ... . This is an academic book that provides a useful historical guide to the major criticisms of the psychological theory over the last two centuries." (Jeremy Dean, The Psychologist, Vol. 19 (12), 2006)