{"product_id":"configuring-psychology-access-to-therapy-and-the-transformation-of-psychological-care-paperback-softback-9781108714228","title":"Configuring Psychology; Access to Therapy and the Transformation of Psychological Care (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108714228","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConfiguring Psychology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAccess to Therapy and the Transformation of Psychological Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book presents a sociological study of clinical psychology as a profession and practice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartyn Pickersgill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108714228, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e226 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.334 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Pickersgill offers readers a sophisticated analytic sociology into the social shaping of mental health care, its professions, and its recipients. In demonstrating the many ways professional health care is socially made, negotiated, and flexible, he provokes us to ask what kinds of therapeutic futures do we want and need as we are shown how the systems of care can be otherwise. An excellent read.' Laura Mamo, Professor of Public Health, San Francisco State University, USA\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eConfiguring Psychology offers a vibrant, multimodal sociological analysis of clinical psychology as a profession and practice in the UK. Starting from the widely-accepted principle and goal of enhancing access to care, it examines how political, economic, legal, and social dynamics intertwine with clinical norms and expertise. These interactions configure broader healthcare contexts, defining not only entry into therapy but also exclusion from it. Through close attention to policy developments, professional strategies, and psychologists' experiences, Martyn Pickersgill reveals how access reforms shape clinical knowledge, therapeutic practice, and understandings of psychology itself. He shows how expanding access has become both a moral imperative and a managerial project, with clinical psychologists balancing competing bureaucratic, ethical, and emotional demands in an increasingly strained NHS. As such, Configuring Psychology provides essential insights for social scientists as well as clinicians and policymakers navigating reform. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: psychology, therapy, and society\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Configuring Contexts: 1. Positioning psychology: configuring professional boundaries and identities\u003cbr\u003e 2. Proliferating therapy: the rise of the improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT) initiative\u003cbr\u003e 3. Producing treatability: reconfiguring the subjects of therapy through entwinements of clinical practice and mental health law\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Configuring Care: 4. Prefacing care: the reciprocal configuration of patients, services, and professionals during referral and assessment\u003cbr\u003e 5. Performing autonomy: working with and against healthcare structures to configure access and exclusion\u003cbr\u003e 6. Prompting exclusion: how 'did not attend' policies shape the involuntary discharge of patients\u003cbr\u003e Coda: psychological therapy and the ambivalence of access\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Clinical psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Clinical psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Clinical%20psychology%20%5BMMJ%5D%22\"\u003eMMJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52415689589016,"sku":"9781108714228","price":27.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781108714228i.jpg?v=1784423745","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/configuring-psychology-access-to-therapy-and-the-transformation-of-psychological-care-paperback-softback-9781108714228","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}