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General Critical Psychology Sites

• International Society of Critical Health Psychology
• Proyecto de Psicología Crítica
• German Critical Psychology
• Free Associations - Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere - Robert Young
• RadPsyNet's Critical Psychology Teaching Materials (syllabi, reading lists, more)
• Applying Critical Psychology (on RadPsyNet site)
• Initiative Critical Psychology (Vienna)
• Dennis Fox's Critical Psychology Page

Critical Psychology Degree Programs

• Vanderbilt University's Peabody College has a PhD program in Community Research and Action. This is no longer strictly a community psychology program.
• Duquesne Univerity has a PhD program in clinical psychology: "human science psychology emphasizes qualitative research that explores questions regarding meaning, values, experience, and culture. Similarly, in the field of clinical psychology, human science psychologists incorporate this perspective and its research findings into the practice of psychotherapy." Its undergraduate BA degree also emphasizes psychology conceived as a human science.
• University of California-Santa Cruz says its social psychology PhD program focuses on social justice.
• Pacifica Graduate Institute's MA/PhD in Depth Psychology with Emphasis in Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology
• California Institute of Integral Studies - Bachelors Completion Program with Minor in Critical Psychology
• University of West Georgia's PhD. in Consciousness and Society includes three theoretical approaches: Critical, Humanistic & Transpersonal.
  
• University of Tennessee Center for Applied Phenomenological Research.
• CUNY - City University of New York PhD in Critical Social/Personality Psychology
  
• Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis - MA and PsyD in Psychoanalysis and Culture
• University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Master of Science in Psychology and Society
  
• York St John University, UK - Master of Science in Community & Critical Social Psychology

More Academic Research, Theory, Activism

• Liberation Psychology Network
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
• Critica (a gateway for critical psychologists with additional links to other progressive sites)
• Community and Critical Social Psychology research group (CCSP) UK
• Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights
• International Society for Political Psychology
• Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts ("interdisciplinary organization formed to critically rethink psychoanalysis. We are opposed to the medical model that dominates psychoanalytic thinking and which has served as a barrier to questioning and challenging the dominant ideology.")
• Human-Nature.com ("bringing into communication the variety of approaches to the understanding of human nature which have a regrettable tendency to be less in touch with one another than they might; our main aim is both to act as host to original work and to seek to create an enabling space, a forum for constructive (including constructively critical) discussion and critiques")
• Against All Reason ("interested in both the radical nature of science as a route to knowledge and the radical critique of the social, political and economic roles of science and technology")
• Society of General and Theoretical Psychology
• theory.org: The Media Theory Site (media/cultural studies/gender/sexuality/identity)
• Radical/Progressive Politics (Dennis Fox's list)
• Entelechy: Mind and Culture

Blogs

• Psyche, Science, and Society - Stephen Soldz, Boston
• Critical Psychology - Martin Terre Blanche & Desmond Painter, South Africa
• Dennis Fox's Weblog- Boston

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Psychiatric Survival, Liberation, & Critique

• National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations
• Psych News International ("The leader in challenging ideas for people interested in psychology, psychiatry, public policy, and the mental health professions!")
• Mental Health Matters! (extensive directory for MH professionals & consumers--links to sites, organizations, much more)
• National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy ("NARPA exists to expose abuse, to shed light on coercive and dangerous practices, and to promote real alternatives to a mental health system that even professionals agree is a disgrace.")
• The Antipsychiatry Coalition
• Mindfreedom - Support Coalition: Psychiatry and Human Rights (Organization produces Dendron newsletter/email list)
• Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (Peter Breggin's site)
• Critical Psychiatry Network
• The Antipsychiatry Reading Room
• Mind Matters Review (Carrie Drake--International Coalition for Intellectual Cooperation, Omega Project)
• The Foucault Tribunal on the State of Psychiatry ("We conclude that, being unwilling to renounce the use of force, violence and coercion, psychiatry is guilty of crimes against humanity: the deliberate destruction of dignity, liberty and life. Most of all through the legal category of 'mental patient' which permits a total deprivation of human and civil rights and the laws of natural justice.")
• Institute of Mental Health Law (UK, discussion group, resources)
• Claude Steiner's Radical Psychiatry & the Radical Therapist
• Ron Bassman ("A Journey Through Madness and Transformation")
• Tardive Dyskinesia Center (coping with the consequences of psychiatric meds)
• David Smail - Social Power and Psychological Distress"

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Self-Help, Therapy, & Personal Growth Alternatives

Note! RadPsyNet makes no recommendations!

• East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy
• Psychological Self-Help (Clay Tucker-Ladd's complete online book reviews self-help approaches)
• PsychInnovations.com (Robert Yourell)
• The Pink Practice (a social constructionist & systemic counselling & psychotherapy practice for lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in London & Leeds, UK; site includes documents, teaching materials, and more)
• Voices (a group listserv for people who hear voices. Link takes you to yahoo subscription page)
• Voices-Support (a group listserv for people who hear voices and the carers, friends, family members and/or professionals working with these people. Link takes you to Yahoo subscription page)
• The Philosophical Counseling Website ("Philosophical Counseling does not work with psychological, theological, or medical models. The aim of Achenbach's practice is to create a 'free place' where persons use philosophy to develop their own thoughts on relevant subject matters.")
• Institute for Psychotherapy and Social Studies
• East London & Essex Psychotherapy & Counselling Practice
• Natural Psychotherapy
• Hazim Mulic's On-line Therapy and Counseling Page (for people speaking Bosnian, Croatian, & Serbian Language)
• The bright side (resource for people dealing with a crisis, addiction, coping with a mental disorder or just feeling overwhelmed with life. It is run by volunteers and all services are free)
• Alternative Mental Health On-Line (A clearinghouse for information on alternatives to psychological/psychiatric therapy).
• Jungian Analysis
• Coming off Psychiatric Drugs: Successful Withdrawal from Neuroleptics, Antidepressants, Lithium, Carbamazepine and Tranquilizers (prefaces by Judi Chamberlin, Loren R. Mosher, Pirkko Lahti, edited by Peter Lehmann)
• James Baxter ("Human Relations Services" UK)
• Bloch Healing Touch Psychotherapy UK
• Human Awareness Institute (HAI) - Workshops on love, intimacy, and sexuality consistent with critical perspectives on assumptions in mainstream psychology
  
• Network for a New Culture (NFNC) - "seeks to build a sustainable, violence-free culture through exploring intimacy, personal growth, transparency, radical honesty, equality, compassion, sexual freedom, and the power of community"
  
• Center for Nonviolent Communication (NVC) - Teaches skills in interpersonal communication linked to awareness of feelings and needs; used in interpersonal relationships as well as political conflict
  

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Mainstream Resources

• Medical and Mental Health Resources
• Social Psychology Network (search engine, listings, links, job hunting)
• Law Project for Psychiatric Rights try to help bring fairness and reasonableness into the administration of legal aspects of the mental health system.

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Email Discussion Lists

• RadPsyNet-Members
• radical-psychology-network email discussion group
• NUVUPSY Share points of view critical of the "therapeutic state" and institutional psychiatry
• PSYCH-CI Topical issues in psychiatry and psychology
• SCRA - Society for Community Research and Action
  

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RadPsyNet Member Web Pages & Projects

• Ron Bassman ("A Journey Through Madness and Transformation")
• Duncan Double (Psychiatry & Antipsychiatry)
• Dennis Fox (RadPsyNet co-founder; "Professing" site includes critical psychology, radical politics, psychology/law, reading suggestions, more; also has separate blog and photo sites)
• Larry Heuer (Barnard College/Columbia University)
• Arnie Kahn (home page, social psychology resources)
• Stephen Gibson (Community and Critical Social Psychology research group (CCSP) UK
• Javier Llamazares Granda (Proyecto de Psicología Crítica)
• Stefan Meretz (German Critical Psychology)
• Isabella Mori Change Therapy blog
• Isaac Prilleltensky (RadPsyNet co-founder; papers, advice, critical psychology projects)
• Carl Ratner (Cultural Psychology, Qualitative Research Methodology, Vygotsky, more)
• Eric Riss (Natural Psychotherapy)
• Shlomit Schuster (The Philosophical Counseling Website)
• Al Siebert (ThriveNet: "learning about resilience, thriving, and how to gain strength from adversity")
• Tod Sloan ("Professor pioneers 'engaged scholarship' pedagogical approach")
• Thomas Teo (York University faculty member; history & theory of psychology)
• Rachelle Thibodeau (Activism & Psychology)
• Ben Tremblay ("Fallen Angels")

Members! To list your site, send the URL!

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