Ian Parker was Co-Founder and is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit. He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is currently editing a book series Lines of the Symbolic (on Lacanian psychoanalysis in different cultural contexts) for Karnac Books. He edited the 2011 four-volume Routledge major work Critical Psychology, and is editing the series Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought. His books on critical perspectives in psychology began with The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and How to End It (Routledge, 1989), and continued with Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology (Routledge, 1992). His recent books include Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (Open University Press, 2005) and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto Press, 2007).

Psychology After the Crisis is the first volume in the Psychology After Critique series. The book reviews the significance of debates over methodological 'paradigms' in social psychology, and sets the scene for the emergence of contemporary critical psychology.

Introduction: Psychology after the Crisis 1. Critical Psychology and Critical Practice in Britain 2. Discursive resources in the Discourse Unit 3. Critical Psychology and Revolutionary Marxism 4. Remembering Mao 5. Universities are Not a Good Place for Psychotherapy and Counselling Training 6. Global Change: Micro-Climates of Social Development, Adaption and Behaviour 7. 'This World Demands our Attention'