Thursday 23 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 03 - Volta
Chair and Presenter:
Ivaldi Silvia
Discussant:
O'Doherty Kieran
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
The main theme of this symposium is the role that applied psychology can play in addressing communitarian and organizational change through a critical stance. Discussed will be tensions of reconciling the intersubjective dimension with the global one, ethical reflexive critical stance with functionalist demands, concern for people with political and cultural mandate.
These questions run through this symposium and the conversations that will shape it, with the understanding that we are asking it at a time when several crises, of which we have been aware for decades, seem to be spiraling into epochal change. The coming decades are the time horizon that international organizations, research institutes, and think tanks estimate to be crucial, calling on us, as academics and practitioners, to take a principled stand.
This symposium offers a proposal for repositioning the psychological work of counseling and intervention in the communitarian and organizational context where remaining neutral could mean losing sight of the meaning of psychological work and missing the opportunity to realize the contributions of applied psychology to different contexts.
We feel the need for a psychology that speaks out when it acts professionally in context, about the enormous, compounding crises, for which organizations and communities bear significant responsibility. We therefore sought to lay out the basis of negotiating, designing, and evaluating organizational interventions and action research by reconnecting a critical gaze on the ideological, economic, and social dimensions with the possibility that new worlds and dislocated imaginaries may open up through emerging ourselves in the intersubjective field with stakeholders.
