All too human? Rethinking the contemporary community psychology subject

In this brief ‘reply’ to Niki Harré’s Let’s assume people are good: rethinking research in community psychology published in volume 30. No 1, pages 81-91 of Australian Community Psychologist (Harré, 2019), we firstly focus-in on Harré’s claim that Fryer and Laing (2008) and ‘critical approaches to community psychology’ more generally generally, and Fryer and Laing (2008) in particular, tend not to distinguish between the function of systems and the people who instantiate systems. We then widen our focus to examine Harré’s assumptions about the fundamental goodness, worth and dignity of people. Thirdly, we critically examine Harré’s broader project of ‘humanistic community psychology’.