Abstract
What we should study is affected by the calling of time and society, and is not completely unrelated to political conditions and social policies. For example, although the studies on developmental disorders or on stress have been popular for a long time, those are not only symptomatic therapies but they also reproduce the reality. Also, the eagerness to adhere to the scientific approaches in the psychology world drives us in those studies using micro- or high-tech machines or highly advanced statistics. As a result, the situation of "psychology without society" may be produced. In this special issue, we would like to criticize the mainstream psychologies and discuss how psychology faces the real contemporary society from the view point of critical, feminist, and qualitative psychology.
