Viewing critical psychology through the lens of queer

This article constitutes an intervention by two arts and humanities scholars with an expertise in queer studies and an outsider's interest in the discipline of critical psychology. First, it proposes a critical comparative history of the homosexual rights movements that predates ‘queer’ and the development of the discipline of psychology. Second, it examines some of the most recent currents in queer theory and tests their applicability to psychology. In particular, it looks at the modes of ethical philosophy that have been engaged by the so-called antisocial turn in queer and asks to what extent post-structuralist models of ethics might trouble the foundational belief in a normative idea(l) of health, in which even progressive critical psychology has an investment.