Ian Parker was Co-Founder and is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit. He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is currently editing a book series Lines of the Symbolic (on Lacanian psychoanalysis in different cultural contexts) for Karnac Books. He edited the 2011 four-volume Routledge major work Critical Psychology, and is editing the series Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought. His books on critical perspectives in psychology began with The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and How to End It (Routledge, 1989), and continued with Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology (Routledge, 1992). His recent books include Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (Open University Press, 2005) and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto Press, 2007).

Psychology after Psychoanalysis reviews the significance of psychoanalysis for a new generation of psychologists, and shows how Freud's work questions underlying assumptions made about the nature of the individual and the social world in the discipline. The book shows how psychoanalysis rests on a notion of 'method' that is very different from mainstream psychology, and explores the implications of this difference.

Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychology. Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology. The Place of Transference in Psychosocial Research. Losing Psychoanalysis in Translation. Psychoanalysis Redefined as a Health Profession. Freud's Culture. Marxism, Psychoanalysis and the State.