Psychology as ideology: A response to davidson (1998), reser (1998), and stankov (1998)

Abstract

This essay takes up a number of the themes highlighted in the paper “Psychology as History, and the Biological Renaissance” (Butler, 1998), and also specifically addresses elements of the three commentaries invited in response to that paper which appear in the current issue of Australian Psychologist (Davidson, 1998; Reser, 1998; Stankov, 1998). Although aspects of these commentaries are challenged, each is seen as making a contribution to debate on issues of race and social justice in contemporary Australia and, more generally, on the wider implications of historicist-contextualist analysis of psychological inquiry. The paper concludes with a discussion of the emergence of constructive or revisionary postmodernism, a perspective which appears to offer the possibility of an overdue “transformation” of psychological practice.

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