Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nPsychology was facing an intellectual and moral crisis by the 1970s. The experimental approach that had once promised objectivity and clarity now seemed reductive, irrelevant, and out of touch with lived experience. Amid this disillusionment a new approach emerged, one that turned its attention not inward to mental states but outward to language, context, and interaction. This chapter explores the rise of discursive psychology as a powerful response to the perceived failures of behaviourism and cognitive science. Anchored in the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, particularly his concepts of \u2018language games\u2019 and \u2018forms of life\u2019, dis-cursive psychology treats language not as a mirror of thought but as a social practice through which psychological reality is constituted. Drawing on the work of several critical psychologists, this chapter explores how meaning, identity, and emotion are produced in language. It also considers how discourse, as a critical thinking tool, reveals the operations of power as something internal to language, performed and resisted through it. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the continued relevance and radical promise of discourse in reimagining what psychology is, and what it might become.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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