Psychology’s Contribution to Socio-Cultural, Political, and Individual Emancipation

Carl Ratner is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research and Education, USA and a cultural psychologist working on political aspects of psychology and culture. He is active in the cooperative movement and his previous works include Politics of Cooperation & Co-Ops (2016) and Neoliberal Psychology (2019).

• Section I: Developing a Psychological Theory for Scientifically Understanding and Enriching Psychology and Society.- 1: Introduction: Defining Emancipation That Forms the Parameters of Emancipatory, Scientific Psychology.- 2: Martin-Baro’s Liberation Psychology.- 3: Vygotsky’s Marxist Psychology Is the Scientific Psychology for Advancing Social-Psychological Emancipation.- 4: Social-Psychological-Political Emancipation According to Cultural-Historical/Macro Cultural Psychology.- Section II: Utilizing Vygotsky’s Marxist Psychology/Macro Cultural Psychology to Assess and Advance Populist Emancipatory Movements.- 5: Contemporary Populism.- 6: The Populist Debasing of Social Theory: Liberation Psychology, Cultural-Historical Psychology, and Historical Materialism.- 7: Emancipation or Fascism.