Ian Parker is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit, Managing Editor of Annual Review of Critical Psychology, Secretary of Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix, member of the Asylum Magazine editorial collective, and supporter of the Fourth International. He is a researcher, supervisor and consultant in critical psychology and psychoanalysis.
BOOKS
2022
Parker, I. (2022) Stalinist Realism and Open Communism: Malignant Mirror or Free Association. London: Resistance Books. ISBN 978-0-902869-27-1
Parker, I. (2022) Radical Psychoanalysis and Anti-Capitalist Action (London: Resistance Books) Link https://resistancebooks.org/product/radical-psychoanalysis/ISBN: 978-0-902869-29-5 (print) ISBN: 978-0-902869-28-8 (e-book)
2021
Parker, I. and Pavón-Cuéllar, D. (2021) Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Critical Psychology for Liberation Movements. [London: 1968 Press] [Link: https://www.1968press.co.uk/product-page/psychoanalysis-revolution] [ISBN: 9781919601908]
2020
Parker, I. (2020) Socialisms: Revolutions Betrayed, Mislaid and Unmade. London and Amsterdam: Resistance Books and IIRE [ISBN: 978-0-902869-71-4] https://resistancebooks.org/product/socialisms/
Parker, I. (2020) Mapping the English Left through Film: Twenty Five Uneasy Pieces. London: Folrose Press. [ISBN: 978-0-9063787-09-0]
Parker, I. (2020) Psychology through Critical Auto-Ethnography: Academic Discipline, Professional Practice and Reflexive History. London and New York: Routledge. [ISBN: 9780367344177]
2019
2018
Parker, I. (2018) Psy-Complex in Question: Critical Review in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory. Winchester and Washington: Zero Books.
2017
Parker, I. (2017) Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left. Winchester and Washington: Zero Books [ISBN: 978-1-78535-642-1]
2015
Parker, I. (ed.) (2015) Handbook of Critical Psychology. London and New York: Routledge. [ISBN: 978-1-84872-218-7]
Parker, I. (2015) Critical Discursive Psychology (2nd Edition). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 9781137485595]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After the Crisis: Scientific paradigms and political debate. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-207-1]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After Discourse Analysis: Concepts, methods, critique. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-211-8]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After Deconstruction: Erasure and Social Reconstruction. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-209-5]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After the Unconscious: From Freud to Lacan. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-215-6]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After Psychoanalysis: Psychosocial studies and beyond. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-213-2]
Parker, I. (2015) Psychology After Lacan: Connecting the clinic and research. Abingdon/New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-1-84872-217-0]
2014
Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar (eds.) Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-52163-5 (pbk); 978-0-415-52162-8 (hbk))
2011
Ian Parker. Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-45543-5
Peter Banister, Geoff Bunn, Erica Burman, John Daniels, Paul Duckett, Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom, Ian Parker, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Judith Sixsmith, Sophie Smailes, Carol Tindall and Pauline Whelan, Qualitative Methods in Psychology (Second Revised Edition). Buckingham, Open University Press. ISBN: 9780335243051
2011, Ian Parker, Critical Psychology (Four Volume Major Work). London and New York, Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-56859-3
2009
Ian Parker. Psychoanalytic Mythologies. London: Anthem Press. ISBN-13: 978-1-84331-303-8
2008
Ian Parker. Japan in Analysis: Cultures of the Unconscious. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN-10: 0230506917 / ISBN-13: 978-0230506916
Ian Parker and Simona Revelli (eds), Psychoanalytic Practice and State Regulation. London: Karnac Books. ISBN-10: 1855755335 / ISBN-13: 978-1855755338
2007
Ian Parker. Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation. London: Pluto Press. ISBN-10: 0745325351 / ISBN-13: 978-0745325354
2005
Ian Parker. Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN: 0-335-21349-9
2004
Ian Parker. Slavoj Žižek: A Critical Introduction. London: Pluto Press. ISBN: 074532076 pbk. 07455320724 hbk
Hook, D. (ed.), with Mkhize, N. Kiguwa, P. and Collins, A. (section eds.) and Burman, E. and Parker, I. (consulting eds.) Critical Psychology. Cape Town: UCT Press. ISBN: 1-91971-388-3
2002
Ian Parker. Critical Discursive Psychology, London: Palgrave. ISBN: 033397381X
1999
Angel J. Gordo-López & Ian Parker (eds.). Cyberpsychology London: Macmillan. ISBN: 0-333-73577-3 pbk. 0-333-73576-5 hbk
Ian Parker and the Bolton Discourse Network. Critical Textwork: An Introduction to Varieties of Discourse and Analysis. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN: 0-335-20204-7 pbk, 0-335-20205-5 hbk
Ian Parker (ed.), Deconstructing Psychotherapy. London: Sage. ISBN: 0-7619-5713-8 pbk, 0-7619-5712-X hbk
1998
Ian Parker (ed.). Social Constructionism, Discourse and Realism. London: Sage. ISBN: 0-8039-7547 pbk. 0-80397546-5 hbk
1997
Ian Parker. Psychoanalytic Culture: Psychoanalytic Discourse in Western Society. London: Sage. ISBN: 0-7619-5643-3 pbk. 0-7619-5642-5 hbk
Ann Levett, Amanda Kottler, Erica Burman & Ian Parker (eds). Culture, Power and Difference: Discourse Analysis in South Africa. London: Zed Books. ISBN: 1-85649-472-1 pbk. 1-85649-472-3 hbk
1996
Ian Parker & Russell Spears (eds), Psychology and Society: Radical Theory and Practice. London: Pluto Press. ISBN: 0-7453-0879-1 pbk.
0-7453-0880-5 hbk
1995
Jeremy J. Foster & Ian Parker. Carrying Out Investigations in Psychology. Leicester: British Psychological Society. ISBN: 1-85433-170-1 pbk
Ian Parker, Eugenie Georgaca, David Harper, Terence McLaughlin & Mark Stowell-Smith. Deconstructing Psychopathology. London: Sage. ISBN: 0-8039-7481-7 pbk. 0-8039-7480-9 hbk
1994
Peter Banister, Erica Burman, Maye Taylor, Carol Tindall & Ian Parker, Qualitative Methods in Psychology: A Research Guide. Buckingham: Open University Press. ISBN: 0-335-19181-9 pbk. 0-335-19182-7 hbk
1993
Erica Burman and Ian Parker (eds), Discourse Analytic Research: Repertoires and Readings of Texts in Action. London: Routledge. Reissued by Routledge in 2017
1992
Ian Parker. Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology. London: Routledge, reissued by Routledge in 2014
1990
Ian Parker and John Shotter (eds), Deconstructing Social Psychology. London: Routledge. Reissued by Routledge in 2015
1989
Ian Parker. The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and how to end it. London: Routledge. Reissued by Routledge in 2014
SELECTED PAPERS
2018
Parker, I. (2018) ‘Auroville: City of the dawn, city of the future, now’, Revista Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 15, (2), pp. 1-8. [Madrid: Cibersomosaguas, ISSN: 1549 2230] Link: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/59078
2017
Parker, I. (2017) ‘Marxist theory and psychotherapy’, in B.M.Z. Cohen (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Critical Mental Health. London and New York: Routledge. (pp. 244-250). [ISBN: 9781138225473]
Parker, I. (2017) ‘Queer directions from Lacan’, in N. Giffney and E. Watson (eds) Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory (pp. 235-244). Goleta, CA: Punctum Books [LINK: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/clinical-encounters-in-sexuality-psychoanalytic-practice-and-queer-theory/
Parker, I. (2017) ‘Narratives of Perversion in the Time of the Psychoanalytic Clinic’, in D. Caine and C. Wright (eds) Perversion Now! (pp. 231-239). London: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN: 978-3-319-47270-6]
2016
Parker, I. (2016) ‘Obsessionality, Order, Management: Psychoanalysis and Capitalism’, CUSP: Culture-Subjectivity-Psyche, 1, (2), pp. 1-34. www.cuspthejournal.com/issue2/Ian-Parker-CUSP-Vol1-No2-2016.pdf
Parker, I. (2016) ‘Psychology, Europe, and Beyond’, Psychotherapy and Politics International, 14, (3), pp. 203-210. [Chichester: Wiley, ISSN: 1476-5263] [DOI: 10.1002/ppi.1384]
Parker, I. (2016) ‘The function and field of speech and language in neoliberal education’, Organization, 23, (4), pp. 550–566 [London, Sage; ISSN: 13505084; DOI: 10.1177/1350508415591235]
2015
Parker, I. (2015) ‘Politics and “Applied Psychology”? Theoretical concepts that question the disciplinary community’, Theory & Psychology, 25, (6), pp. 719 – 734 [London and New York: Sage, ISSN Print, 0959-3543, DOI: 10.1177/0959354315592173]
Parker, I. (2015) ‘Dilemmas of psychoanalysis and psychology: critical conceptions of subjectivity in the work of Marie Jahoda’, South African Journal of Psychology, 45, (2), pp. 147-154 [London and New York: Sage, ISSN Print, 0081-2463, DOI: 10.1177/ 0081246314543057] Link: http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/sapsyc
Parker, I. (2015) ‘Podemos as event or not: what it looks like from Manchester’, Revista Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 12, (1), pp. 153-160. [Madrid: Cibersomosaguas, ISSN: 1549 2230] Link: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48892/45618
Parker, I. (2015) ‘Walls and Holes in Psychosocial Research: From Psychoanalysis to Critique’, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12, pp. 77-82 [ISSN: 1478-0887] [ISSN: 1478-0887 print/1478-0895 online DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2014.958396]
Parker, I. (2015) ‘Towards Critical Psychotherapy and Counselling: What Can We Learn from Critical Psychology (and Political Economy)?’ in D. Loewenthal (ed.) Critical Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling: Implications for Practice (pp. 41-52). London: Palgrave [ISBN: 9781137460561] [Link: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/critical-psychotherapy-psychoanalysis-and-counselling-del-loewenthal/?K=9781137460561%5D
2014
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Psychotherapy under Capitalism: The Production, Circulation and Management of Value and Subjectivity’, Psychotherapy and Politics International, 12(3). pp. 166-175 [Chichester: Wiley, ISSN: 1476-5263] [DOI: 10.1002/ppi.1333]
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Psychology intersecting what, Psychology in Society (PINS), 46, 46-49 [Durban: PINS, ISSN: 1015-6046]
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Managing Neoliberalism and the Strong State in Higher Education: Psychology Today’, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11, (3), pp. 250-264. [Abingdon/New York: Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1478-0887] Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.872214
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Another Valley: an alternative technology of the self’, Revista Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, 11, (1), pp. 207-218. [Madrid: Cibersomosaguas, ISSN: 1549 2230] Link: http://teknokultura.net/index.php/tk/pages/view/opr-194
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Madness and Justice’, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 34, (1), pp. 28-40. [New York: American Psychological Association, ISSN: 1068-8471] DOI: 10.1037/a0032841
Parker, I. and Fotaki, M. (2014) ‘Prologue: Ian Parker on the psychosocial, psychoanalysis and critical psychology, in conversation with Marianna Fotaki’, in K. Kenny and M. Fotaki (eds) The Psychosocial and Organization Studies: Affect at Work (pp. 1-17). London: Palgrave Macmillan [ISBN: 978-1-137-347848]
Parker, I. (2014) ‘NSK: Allegiances, Ambiguities, Politics, Process’, in IRWIN (eds) State in Time (pp. 119-132). Wivenhoe, New York and Port Watson: Minor Compositions. [ISBN: 978-1-57027-276-9] Link: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=640
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Interview with Eda Čufer’, in IRWIN (eds) State in Time (pp. 133-138). Wivenhoe, New York and Port Watson: Minor Compositions. [ISBN: 978-1-57027-276-9] Link: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=640
Parker, I. (2014) ‘It’s the stupid relationship’, in D. Loewenthal and A. Samuels (eds) Relational Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Counselling (pp. 130-139). London and New York: Routledge [ISBN: 978-0-415-72154-7]
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Critical Discursive Practice In Social Psychology’, in N. Bozatzis and T. Dragonas (eds) The Discursive Turn in Social Psychology (pp. 190-204). Chagrin Falls, Ohio: Taos Institute Publications. [ISBN: 978-1-938552-21-2] Link: http://www.taosinstitute.net/the-discursive-turn-in-social-psychology
Parker, I. (2014) ‘Psychology Politics Resistance: Theoretical Practice in Manchester’, in B. Burstow, B. A. LeFrancois & S. Diamond (eds) Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution. Montreal, Quebec: McGill Queen’s University Press. [ISBN: 9780773543300] Link: http://www.mqup.ca/psychiatry-disrupted-products-9780773543300.php
Parker, I. and Vanheule, S. (2014) ‘Lacanian psychoanalysis’, in T. Teo (ed.) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (pp. 1041-1046) [DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7] [ISBN: 978-1-4614-5582-0 (Print) 978-1-4614-5583-7 (Online)]. Berlin: Springer Verlag. http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/304816.html
2013
Ian Parker (2014) Managing Neoliberalism and the Strong State in Higher
Education: Psychology Today, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 11:3, 250-264
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2013.872214
2012
Parker, I. (2012) ‘Žižek, NSK, Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the State: Cynicism and Resistance to Capitalism and Bureaucracy in Europe’, International Journal of Žižek Studies, 6, 1, [ISSN: 1751-8229] http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/369/425
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