Italian and Spanish Critical Psychological Concerns

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of critical work carried out in the field of psychology in Spain and Italy during the last three decades. Firstly we briefly present the anti-psychiatry movement in our countries. In a second moment we move on to discuss the way critical work in Italy and Spain, despite their different trajectories, have recently found another common referent in social movements and organised collective actions. Finally we shall argue that critical psychology in these contexts is part of wider transformations rather than a disciplinary topic of interest by its own.