Links with other Theoretical Perspectives

Critical psychology became known in Italy through the translation in 1974 of Holzkamp’s Kritische Psychologie (1972). It was widely read because it dealt with a topical issue of the time: the challenge to the psychology labelled as „bourgeois science“. However, though deriving from Berlin Critical Psychology, in Italy it took on its own characteristics as it developed in an original way links with the Cultural Historical School and, in particular, the Tätigkeitstheorie of Leont’ev – author more widely known in Italy than in other western European countries due to cultural relationship with the USSR. The main characteristic of Italian Critical Psychology is that it – less ideological and abstract than Berlin Critical Psychology – addressed problems existing in the world of work, in psychiatric institutions and in communities.

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