Psycurity

‘Don’t read Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia, and the War on Imagination simply because Rachel Jane Liebert is brilliant. Nor because she elaborates with terrifying specificity the well funded, porous membrane that links psychology and psychiatry to surveillance and security technology. Don’t read this book only because Liebert meticulously interrogates the claws of colonialism and white supremacy sutured into the long and dangerous psychological coils of paranoia.

But do, please, curl into bed with this volume if you yearn for a text penned in critical theory that provokes and incites; a manuscript that radically challenges the eugenic history and yet resuscitates the wild possibilities of a decolonizing psychology; a text that interrupts the common sense of "distress" with aesthetic provocation and a manuscript that spikes the radical imagination for madness and poetry, social theory and art, revolution and justice.

And then you will thank Liebert for a theoretical, empirical and aesthetic journey through terror, madness and the gift of radical imagination.’ - Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, The Graduate Center City University of New York, US.

‘This is an intellectually demanding, thoughtful, original, and personal book. It is not only of interest in terms of content, forasmuch as Rachel Liebert represents a new generation of critical psychologists that need not rely on classical canons of scholarship to make their case. She demonstrates that reflection can draw on a variety of streams in the critically-oriented humanities and social sciences and how a transdisciplinary approach in pursuing psychosocial questions can be advanced. Critical psychology and critical reflection are in good hands and the book gives reason to be hopeful.’ - Dr. Thomas Teo,Professor of Psychology, York University, Canada.