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Psychology and Politics - Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences (Hardcover)
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Psychology and Politics - Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences (Hardcover)
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Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy,
criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to
politics in different ways since the early twentieth century. Here,
in twenty-two essays, scholars address a variety of these
intersections from a historical perspective. The chapters include
such diverse topics as the cultural history of psychoanalysis, the
complicated relationship between psychoanalysis and the occult, and
the struggles for dominance between the various schools of
psychology. They show the ambivalent positions of the "psy"
sciences in the dictatorships and authoritarian regimes of Nazi
Germany, East European communism, Latin-American military
dictatorships, and South African apartheid, revealing the crucial
role of psychology in legitimating and "normalizing" these regimes.
The authors also discuss the ideological and political aspects of
mental health and illness in Hungary, Germany, post-World-War-I
Transylvania, and Russia. Other chapters describe the attempt by
critical psychology to understand the production of academic,
therapeutic, and everyday psychological knowledge in the context of
the power relations of modern capitalist societies.
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