Thomas Teo (born 1963) is a Canadian professor of Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada.
[citation needed] Teo is a critical-theoretical psychologist who employs metatheory and history to provide a more reflexive understanding of the foundations and trajectories of current psychology while projecting alternatives to the status quo.
[6] He worked on racism and mixed race and in a series of articles advanced the meaning of the concept of epistemological violence in empirical research.
[13][14] Teo supports the idea of critical psychology as a generative and international movement that provides reflexivity and interference in psychosocial affairs.
By engaging with basic theoretical problems, Teo demonstrates how psychology can avoid its pitfalls and participate as a force for resistance and the good.