Psychosocial studies is a relatively new area without an agreed genealogy or settled shape, while this contributes to its fertility and inclusiveness, it also signals a need for a Major Reference Work that will lay out the parameters of the field, giving readers access to thinking on its formative and constitutive elements, its controversies, achievements and characteristics, and its likely future lines of development. The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies aims to offer such a ’state of the art’ account by (a) reflecting back on texts that have influenced the development of psychosocial studies from a 2020s perspective; (b) exploring current major topics with evaluative reviews; and (c) identifying newly emerging areas of work.
It will appeal to students, scholars and practitioner-researchers in the fields of pychosocial studies, psychoanalysis, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies.