Welcome to this latest issue of JCPCP. One of the most disturbing perspectives in recent decades has been watching the baby boomers eat everything and belch in the face of everyone else - all driven by establishment policy of course. What this means for psy is in part articulated by papers such as the one by Isibor in this issue of JCPCP which looks at some of the barriers to social mobility occuring in clinical psychology. More of this please. Also, the paper by Freeman which acknowledges a rise in reactionary politics in the UK and political disinterest amongst psy professionals. The extent of the problem perhaps embodied by McGloin's paper in that a decades old reprint calling for basic psy reform still reads like cutting edge thinking.
Many self proclaimed critical psy baby boomers no doubt voted for more neoliberalism in 2019 here in the UK. The extent of this political betrayal we will never know, but we can know about a stunning lack of reform within psy over the past decades. One fact that should be remembered is that younger people in the UK tended not to vote for neoliberalism. It's astonishing what cheap houses, accessible careers and final salary pensions did to the minds of a generation. Power corrupts as they say. More information can be found here.
