Abstract

The need for opposition to establishment psychology and psychiatry and for the creation of liberating alternatives is exigent both because the expansion of Anglo-American psychology during the fifties and sixties has been matched by the increasing use of behavioral technology as an agent of repressive social control and because the experiences of the sixties furnished movement activists with an awareness of the necessary conjunction between personal and political change. These phenomena presage the growth of radical psychological theory and provide a context within which the publication of a volume such as Toward a Marxist Psychology is timely, even though this book does not contribute significantly to the intellectual and political development which it is intended to promote.