Publications

BOOKS:

Liebert, R. J. (2019). Psycurity: Colonialism, Paranoia, and the War on Imagination. Concepts for Critical Psychology Series by I. Parker (Ed.). Routledge: London, New York.

EDITING:

Carlson, T., Lara, A. & Liebert, R. J. (ongoing). Awry2. Section in, Awry: The International Journal of Critical Psychology.

GUEST EDITING:

Ashley, C., Billies, M., Lara, A., Liebert, R., Liu, W., & Nishida, A. (Eds, 2017). Affect and Subjectivity. Subjectivity Special Issue.

Liebert, R., & Thompson, L. (Eds, 2015). ‘‘Young Feminists” Doing Recognition & Reflexivity & (R)evolution. Feminism & Psychology Special Feature, 25(1).

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:

Liebert, R. J. (2021). What could the White body do for decolonising Psychology? 31 questions. (With published responses by Carl Mika and Tim McCreanor). Awry: The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 2(1): 99-123.

Liebert, R. J., Lara, A. & Carlson, T. (2021). Awry2: Making space for experimenting with form. Awry: The International Journal of Critical Psychology, 2(1): 77-82.

McGrath L., Laver K., Liebert, R., et al. (2021). “You don’t take things too seriously or un-seriously”: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 32(4): 653.

McGrath, L, Mighetto, I., Liebert, R., et al. (2021). Stuck in separation: Graffiti arts, liminality and the forensic psychiatric institution as a failed rite of passage. Sociology of Health & Illness, 43(6): 1355.

Lara, A., Liu, W., Ashley, C., Nishida, A., Liebert, R., & Billies, M. (2017). Affect and subjectivity. Subjectivity, 10: 30-43.

Liebert, R. J. (2017). Beside-the-mind: An unsettling, reparative reading of paranoia. Subjectivity, 10(1): 123-145.

Liebert, R. (2017). Radical archiving as social psychology from the future. Qualitative Psychology Special Issue, The Archive, 4: 90.

Liebert, R. & Thompson, L. (2015). Recognition & reflexivity: Editorial introduction to the Special Feature. Feminism & Psychology Special Feature, 25(1): 3-10.

Liebert, R. & Thompson, L. (2015). Reflexivity & (r)evolution: Editorial reflections on the Special Feature. Feminism & Psychology Special Feature, 25(1): 95-100.

Liebert, R. (2013). A re-view of ambivalence in Bipolar Disorder research. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, 15(3): 180-194.

Liebert, R. (2013). Loopy: The political ontology of Bipolar Disorder. Aporia, 5(3): 15-25.

Liebert, R. (2013). A progressive downward spiral: The circulation of risk in ‘bipolar disorder’. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 33(3): 185-198.

Liebert, R., Leve, M., & Hui, A. (2011). The politics and possibilities of activism in contemporary feminist psychologies. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35(4): 697-704.

Liebert, R. (2010). Synaptic peace-keeping: Of bipolar and securitization. Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue, Market, 38(3&4): 325-342.

Liebert, R. (2010). Feminist psychology, hormones and the raging politics of medicalisation. Feminism & Psychology, 20(2): 278-283.

Liebert, R. & Gavey, N. (2009). “There’s always two sides to these things”: Managing the dilemmas of serious adverse effects from SSRI use. Social Science and Medicine, 68(10): 1882-1891.

Liebert, R. & Gavey, N. (2008). “I didn’t just cross a line I tripped over an edge”: Personal accounts of SSRI-induced suicidality and/or aggression. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 37(1).

Liebert, R. & Gavey, N. (2006). “They took my depression and then medicated me into madness”: Co-constructed narratives of SSRI-induced suicidality. Radical Psychology, 5.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Liebert, R.J. (2020). Re-turning the psykhe: A creative experiment in decolonizing psychology. Chapter in M. Brown (Ed.), Emancipatory Perspectives on Madness. Routledge: New York.

Taylor, S., Hall, M., Lehman, J., Liebert, R., Nishida, A., & Stewart, J. (2016). Krips, cops and Occupy: Reflections from Oscar Grant Plaza. Chapter in P. Block, D. Kasnitz, A. Nishida, & N. Pollard (Eds.), Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability. Springer: Netherlands.

Liebert, R. (2014). Psy policing: The borderlands of psychiatry and security. Chapter in D. Holmes, J. D. Jacob, & A. Perron (Eds.), Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Liebert, R. (2014). Pathologization. Entry in T. Teo (Ed), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer.

REVIEWS:

Liebert, R. J. (2021). “To complain is to admit the truth of violence. To complain is to let the ghosts in. To be haunted is to be hit by an inheritance”. A review of Sara Ahmed’s ‘Complaint!’. Polyphony: Durham University.

Liebert, R. J. (2020). Infrastructural whiteness and the White body, and a book for my dad? A review of Jonathan Metzl’s ‘Dying of Whiteness’. Polyphony: Durham University.

Liebert, R. J. (2020). Of agitation, the erotic, coffee beans and mannequins: A review of Sunil Bhatia’s ‘Decolonizing Psychology’. Feminism & Psychology Special Issue, Feminisms and Decolonising Psychology, 30(3): 415-422.

Liebert, R. (2009). Film review: The Changing Face of Feminist Psychology by Alex Rutherford. Signs, 1(2).