Academic Publications and
Presentations

2019

• Parallels, Intersections, and Clashes: Journeys through the Fringes. In A. Borgos, F. Erős, & J. Gyimesi) (Eds.), Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences. Budapest: Central European University Press.
• Tod Sloan's Struggle. Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy. (in press)
  

2016

• Border Lines and Border Regions: Political and Personal. Fifth Estate.
• Conversation about Anarchism and Psychology. House Gathering, Athens, Greece.
  

2015

• Parallels, Intersections, and Clashes: Journeys through the Fringes. Conference on Psycho‐Politics: The Cross‐Sections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy‐Sciences, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

2014

• Anarchism. International Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology.
• Anarchist Morality and Personal Change. Enlightened Anarchism Conference, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland.
• Anarchism and Psychology. Boston Anarchist Bookfair.
  

2013

• Polyamory Psychology and Politics. Discussion, Atlanta Polyamory Weekend.
• Changing Ourselves while Changing Society. Pokret za Slobodu (Serbian Freedom Fight Movement).
  

2012

• Interview: Critical Psychology and Social Struggles. Meydan (Turkish)
• Personal, Social, Political: Anarchism, Psychology, and the Occupy Movement. 3rd Critical Psychology Symposium, Diyarbakir, Turkey. [Keynote]
  
• Critical Psychology and Anarchism. TODAP (Association of Psychologists for Social Solidarity), Istanbul, Turkey. [Invited]
• Anarchism, Democracy, and Occupy. Occupy Boston Radio Interview. [Audiotape]
  
  

2011

• Anarchism and Psychology. Theory in Action. [YouTube video of conference presentation: part 1 - part 2]
• Reflections on Occupying. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology.
• Critical and Radical Psychology. In D. J. Christie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Competing Narratives about Competing Narratives: Psychology and Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
• Anarchism, Psychology, and Law. Free School University at Occupy Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. [2-part video]
• Challenging Basic Assumptions: Personal and Political. Free School University at Occupy Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
  
• Anarchist Occupation Issues. Free School University at Occupy Boston, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Introduction to Anarchism, Psychology, and Law. Occupy Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, Florida.
  
  

2010

• Critical Psychology, Capitalism, and Transformation. Panel discussion, German Critical Psychology Conference, Free University of Berlin.
• Critical Psychology in the United States and Canada. German Critical Psychology Conference, Free University of Berlin.
• Confusions and Dilemmas about Personal Growth and Political Change. Corvid College Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA.
  
• Towards Transformative Social Interventions. Updated commentary on chapter by Geoffrey Nelson and Isaac Prilleltensky in Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being (2nd ed.). London: MacMillan.
• The Suitability of Political Debate in Psychology. In G. Nelson & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.) Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being (2nd ed.). London: MacMillan. [Reprinted column]
  

2009

• Things that Confuse Me About Psychology, Anarchy, Justice, and Academic Objectivity. York University History & Theory of Psychology Colloquium Series, University of Toronto.
  
• Fox, D., Prilleltensky, I., & Austin, S. Critical Psychology for Social Justice: Concerns and Dilemmas. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, & S. Austin (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
• Arrigo, B. & Fox, D. Psychology and the Law: The Crime of Policy and the Search for Justice. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, & S. Austin (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage.
• Fox, D., Prilleltensky, I., & Austin, S. (Eds.). Critical Psychology: An Introduction (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications.
• A Critical-Psychology Approach to Law’s Legitimacy. In M. D. Freeman (Series Ed.) & M. L. Levine (Vol. Ed.), International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law: Mental Illness, Medicine, and Law. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. [Reprinted article]

2008

• Palestinians Under Siege: A Critical Psychology Perspective on Mental Health and Justice. Siege and Mental Health...Bridges vs. Walls: Gaza Community Mental Health Center’s 5th International Conference, Ramallah, Palestinian National Authority.
• Teo, T., Fox, D., & Prilleltensky, I. Critical Psychology Issues. Conversation hour, American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
• Academic Objectivity, Political Neutrality, and Other Barriers to Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation. First International Academic Conference on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways to Peace, New Britain, Connecticut.
• Confronting Psychology’s Power. Journal of Community Psychology. [Invited Commentary]
• Fox, D., Sloan, T., & Austin, S. History and Trends of Critical Psychology in North America. Psychologie Française [Invited article, translated into French]
• Radical Psychology: Creating Healthier and More Just Communities and Societies. Guelph Community Health Convergence, Guelph, Ontario. [Invited Workshop]
• Epstein, G., & Fox, D. Disablity, Empowerment, and Community Support Networks. Guelph Community Health Convergence, Guelph, Ontario. [Invited Workshop]

• Psychopolitical Literacy for Wellness and Justice (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Journal of Community Psychology.
• Critical Psychology, Law, and Justice in Israel and Palestine, or Why Jimmy Carter is only Half Right. University of Miami. [Invited Speaker]
• Five Social Psychology Essentials. In-Mind Magazine [On-line]
• Can Social Psychology Depoliticize the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? [Review of the book Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict by Moises Salinas]. ASAP: Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.  [On-line]

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• Law, Justice, and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Comments and Questions from a Visiting Critical Psychologist. Birzeit Legal Encounter, Birzeit University Institute of Law, Ramallah, Palestine.
• The Development of North American Critical Psychology, Plus Questions About its Relevance to Israel. Colloquium, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
• Psychological Perspectives on Law and Human Rights. Al Quds University Human Rights Clinic, Palestinian School of Law, Abu Dis, Palestine.
• Critical Psychology’s Relevance to Therapists. Graduate Course, Basic Concepts in Psychodynamics of Psychotherapy, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. [Guest Speaker]

• Psycholegal Scholarship’s Contribution to False Consciousness About Injustice. In A. Sarat (Series Ed.) & T. Tyler (Vol. Ed.), The International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Procedural Justice. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing. [Reprinted article]
• Towards Transformative Social Interventions. Invited commentary on chapter by Geoffrey Nelson and Isaac Prilleltensky in Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
• The Suitability of Political Debate in Psychology. In G. Nelson & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.) Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being. New York: Palgrave. [Reprinted column]

2004

2003

• Socialize or Social Lies: Psycho-Political Education for Psycho-Political Wellness. Conference of Society for Community Research and Action, Las Vegas, NM. (with Isaac Prilleltensky) [published with different title, above]
• Awareness is Good, but Action is Better. The Counseling Psychologist. [Invited commentary]
• Confronting Psychology's Power: Comment on Prilleltensky. Invited presentation to colloquium on Power, Well-Being and Psychopolitical Validity: Creating an Agenda for Change. Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
• Expanding Critical Psychology's Challenge for Health and Justice. Journal of Health Psychology. [Invited commentary]

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2002

• The Suitability of Political Debate in Psychology. PsyPAG Quartery, #45, 15-18.
• Prospects for a Community Psychology of Social Justice and Social Change. Southeastern Ecological Community Conference: Social Justice and Social Change, Knoxville, TN. [Invited Panelist, Town Meeting Panel Discussio]
• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Wading through Quicksand: Between the Philosophically Desirable and the Psychologically Feasible. International Journal of Critical Psychology #6, 159-167. [Post-September 11 Commentary]
• Psychology's Role in Responding to September 11th and its Aftermath. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston. [Co-convenor, Conversation Hour; related]

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2001

• Organizing Critical Psychologists: The RadPsyNet Experience. Radical Psychology Journal. [2001 Monterey Bay Conference on Critical Psychology, California--Keynote Address]
• (Dennis Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky, Tod Sloan, & Melissa Warren). Publishing Critical Psychology in Mainstream Psychology Outlets: Should We Bother? Monterey Bay Conference on Critical Psychology, California. [Learning Circle]
• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Making a Difference: Organizing for Critical Psychology. Monterey Bay Conference on Critical Psychology, California. [Workshop]
• Organizing Parent Resistance. New Democracy Conference on High-Stakes Testing. Brockton, MA, November. [Workshop]
• Law and Justice. Workshop for high school students, Brookline, MA.
• Protest & Civil Disobedience. Workshop for high school students, Brookline, MA.
• Radical Dilemmas in the Anti-High-Stakes-Testing Movement. Radical Teacher #61, 28-35.
• Challenging Basic Assumptions: The (Potential) Value of Social Science Education. Academy for the Study of Psychoanalytic Arts. [On-line at http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/fox2.htm] [Original paper presented 1982]
• A Critical-Psychology Approach to Law's Legitimacy. Legal Studies Forum, 25, 519-538.

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2000

• The Critical Psychology Project: Transforming Society and Transforming Psychology. In Critical Psychology: Voices for Change (Tod Sloan, Ed.). Macmillan Press.
• What's Radical Psychology? What's Critical Psychology? Why Should Mainstream Psychologists Care? Brown Bag Colloquium presentation, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February.
• Psychology and Social Justice. Colloquium presentation, Counseling Psychology Program, Boston College, April.
• (with Dimitry Anselme). Protest & Civil Disobedience. Workshop for high school students, Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA, May.
• Achieving Ideological Change Within Psychology. Academy for the Study of Psychoanalytic Arts [On-line at http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/fox.htm] [Original paper presented 1988]
• (with Ron Sakolsky). From "Radical University" to Handmaiden of the Corporate State. Booklet published by Teachers for a Democratic Culture. [Updates & expands 1998 article]
  • Reprinted : Je ne sais quois #7, pp. 1-2, 8-15. Available: P. O. Box 2407, Springfield IL 62705.

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1999

• Psycholegal Scholarship's Contribution to False Consciousness About Injustice. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 9-30. [Special issue on the journal's 20th anniversary].
  • Portions appeared in False Consciousness About Law's Legitimacy and were presented at the 1998 American Psychological Association convention in panel chaired by Mark Small on The Use and Misuse of Psychology in Justice Studies.
  • Reprinted: 2005. In A. Sarat (Series Ed.) & T. Tyler (Vol. Ed.), The International Library of Essays in Law and Society: Procedural Justice. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing.

1998

• RadPsyNet, Psychology, and Public Policy. APA Graduate Student Newsletter, 10, p. 16. [Invited column]
• Response to Geis on Anti-Corporate Polemics. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 16, 273-279. [Comment on critique of Fox, 1996]
• (with Ron Sakolsky). From "Radical University" to Agent of the State. Radical Teacher #53, 13-18. [Updates and expands "'Radical University' Celebrates 25th Anniversary and Dies"]
  • I have a few more short pieces on the SSU-to-UIS transition and related events
• Comment on Reviews of Critical Psychology: An Introduction. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 68, 612-613 [Invited response]

1997

• (Dennis Fox & Isaac Prilleltensky, Editors). Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.
• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Introducing Critical Psychology: Values, Assumptions, and the Status Quo. Chapter 1 in Fox & Prilleltensky.
• Psychology and Law: Justice Diverted. Chapter 14 in Fox & Prilleltensky.
• False Consciousness About Law's Legitimacy. Psicología Política, 15, 39-57 [Invited Article. Translated into Spanish and published as Falsa conciencia sobre la legitimidad de la ley]

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1996

• The Law Says Corporations are Persons, but Psychology Knows Better. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 14, 339-359.
• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). The Inescapable Nature of Politics in Psychology: A Response to O'Donohue and Dyslin. New Ideas in Psychology, 14, 21-26.

1995

• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Group Leaders. Radicalizing Organized Psychology: A Critical Issue for Empowerment and Social Change. Critical Issues Group meeting at the biennial conference of the Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27), Chicago, Illinois. [Focus on Radical Psychology Network]
• Can the Radical Psychology Network's Critique Make SPSSI More Resilient? Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, New York.
• "Radical University" Celebrates 25th Anniversary and Dies. RadPsyNews #8. [Superseded by From "Radical University" to Agent of the State ]

1994

• Observations on Disability Evaluation in the Social Security Administration. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 9, 237-246.
• Governmental Ideology and Bureaucratic Reality in Mental Disability Evaluation. Updated unpublished manuscript. [Original poster presented at the 1988 convention of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta.
• Invited Discussion Leader. The Individual, the Family, and Social Good: Personal Fulfillment in Times of Change. 1994 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

1993

• (with Isaac Prilleltensky). Will Psychology Pay Attention to its Own Radical Critics? Conversation hour conducted at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto. [Founding meeting of the Radical Psychology Network]
• The Autonomy-Community Balance and the Equity-Law Distinction: Anarchy's Task for Psychological Jurisprudence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 11, 97-109. [Original paper presented in R. L. Wiener & G. B. Melton (Co-chairs), Perspectives on Psycholegal Jurisprudence. Symposium conducted at the 1990 convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston.]
• Psychological Jurisprudence and Radical Social Change. American Psychologist, 48, 234-241.
  • Reprinted: 1995. In T. D. Campbell (Series Ed.) & M. L. Levine (Vol. Ed.), The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory: Law and Psychology (pp. 53-60). Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing.
• Where's the Proof that Law is a Good Thing? Law and Human Behavior, 17, 257-258. [Comment]

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1992

• A Political Framework for the Introductory Social Psychology Course. Contemporary Social Psychology, 16, 37-39.
• Panel Member. In M. Small (Chair), The Ethics of Psychological Advocacy at the Appellate Level. Panel discussion conducted at the biennial convention of the American Psychology-Law Society, San Diego. [Parts included in Psychological Jurisprudence and Radical Social Change]

1991

• Law Against Social Change. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco. [Precursor to longer article Psychological Jurisprudence and Radical Social Change]
• Social Science's Limited Role in Resolving Psycholegal Social Problems. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 17, 159-166. [Poster originally presented at the 1990 convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston--ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Document Reproduction Service]

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1988

• The Reagan Administration's Policy On Using The Family To Advance Capitalism. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Law and Society Association, Vail, Colorado.
• (with Linda Schmechel). The Social Security Disability Programs and Assessment of Mental Disability. Workshop presented at the Summer Institute on Mental Health Law, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. [related paper]

1987

• The Legal, Bureaucratic, and Social-Psychological Context of Mental Disability Evaluation: An Inside Perspective. Poster presented at the First Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action (APA Division 27), University of South Carolina, Columbia. [Paper published in part, remainder revised/updated in 1994]

1986

• Beyond Individualism and Centralization. American Psychologist, 41, 231-232. [Comment]
• Four Reasons for Humanistic Psychologists to Advocate Anarchism. Transformations, 2(1), 17-23 [Original 1984 paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto]
• Technology, Productivity, and Psychological Needs. In J. W. Murphy & J. T. Pardeck (Eds.), Technology and Human Productivity: Challenges For The Future (pp. 59-66). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. [Original paper presented at the National Conference on Technology and Human Productivity, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro]

1985

• Achieving Ideological Change Within Psychology. In T. Trabasso (Chair), Psychology, Ideology, and Social Change. Symposium conducted at the annual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago. [ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Document Reproduction Service No. ED 258 188]
  • Finally published on-line in 2000
• Personal Autonomy, Psychological Sense of Community, and Political Ideology. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles. [ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Personnel Services, Document Reproduction Service No. ED 266 398]
  • Variation of paper also presented at annual convention of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Michigan State University, East Lansing: Value Themes Among Politically Dissident Newspaper Letter Writers [Dissertation-related]
• Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons. American Psychologist, 40, 48-58.
• "To the Editor": Ideological Themes Expressed by Individualist and Collectivist Newspaper Letter Writers. Dissertation, Michigan State University. [Qualitative Interview Study, unpublished]

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1984

• Alternative Perspectives on the Pressure to Publish. Teaching of Psychology, 11, 239-241.
  • Reprinted: 1987. In M. E. Ware & R. J. Millard (Eds.), Handbook on Student Development: Advising, Career Development, and Field Placement (pp. 121-122). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Psychology and Controversy: Points for Discussion. [Unpublished]

1983

• The Pressure to Publish: A Graduate Student's Personal Plea. Teaching of Psychology, 10, 177-178. [ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. EJ 288 782]
  • Reprinted: 1987. In M. E. Ware & R. J. Millard (Eds.), Handbook on Student Development: Advising, Career Development, and Field Placement (pp. 119-120). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

1982

• Challenging Basic Assumptions: The (Potential) Value of Social Science Education. Paper presented at the Conference on Values, Teaching, and Social Science, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. [Most of this paper later published in Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons]