2021
DOI: 10.1177/0539018420982543
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Social representations of psychology: When paradoxes become a strength

Abstract: This article investigates the understanding by different groups of what psychology is and what psychologists do. We first recall some of the tensions that fuelled the discipline and underpinned its institutionalization in France. Then, drawing on social representations (SR) theory and on the wind-rose model, we explore how SR of psychology and of the psychologist are developed in two different groups and when these groups come together. The first study shows how future psychologists construct, during their stu… Show more

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“…Augoustinos & Innes, 1990 for an analysis of these linkages). The representation of psychology has been made in (Caillaud, Haas & Drozda-Senkowska (2021) and we adopt some of their conceptualization to make our case for our representation of psychology in a mechanistic/technical form. There are other representations, but this one is increasingly being cited in the dominant clinical and professional literature.…”
Section: The Representation Of Psychology and The Helping Professionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Augoustinos & Innes, 1990 for an analysis of these linkages). The representation of psychology has been made in (Caillaud, Haas & Drozda-Senkowska (2021) and we adopt some of their conceptualization to make our case for our representation of psychology in a mechanistic/technical form. There are other representations, but this one is increasingly being cited in the dominant clinical and professional literature.…”
Section: The Representation Of Psychology and The Helping Professionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Each specific project is advanced over time, mediated by context as well as the power held by other knowers who come to work towards a shared issue. As multiple actors come together around a supposed shared goal, the terrain is not always smooth, as each group of actors advance their own interests, mobilising various forms of symbolic, structural, or material power at their disposal [ 14 ]. As such, when a project demands the application of various knowledge(s), the knowledge that is likely prioritised is always determined by how certain groups leverage their own power in service of their interpretation of what ‘should’ happen.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%