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The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of
utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic
theories to interpret science fiction; and psychology has employed
science fiction as an educational medium. Science Fiction and
Psychology goes beyond such incidental observations and engagements
to offer an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's
varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of
modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and concluding
with the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twentieth century.
Rather than dwelling on psychoanalytic readings, this literary
investigation combines with history of psychology to offer
attentive textual readings that explore five key psychological
schools: evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism,
existential-humanism, and cognitivism. The varied functions of
psychological discourses in science fiction are explored, whether
to popularise and prophesy, to imagine utopia or dystopia, to
estrange our everyday reality, to comment on science fiction
itself, or to abet (or resist) the spread of psychological wisdom.
Science Fiction and Psychology also considers how psychology itself
has made use of science fiction in order to teach, to secure
legitimacy as a discipline, and to comment on the present.
Although a tide of secularization swept over the post-war United
Kingdom, Christianity in Scotland found one way to survive by
drawing on alliances that it had built earlier in the century with
psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis was seen as a way
to purify Christianity, and to propel it in a scientifically
rational and socially progressive direction. This book draws upon a
wealth of archival research to uncover the complex interaction
between religion and psychotherapy in twentieth-century Scotland.
It explores the practical and intellectual alliance created between
the Scottish churches and Scottish psychotherapy that found
expression in the work of celebrated figures such as the radical
psychiatrist R.D. Laing and the pioneering psychoanalyst W.R.D.
Fairbairn, as well as the careers of less well-known individuals
such as the psychotherapist Winifred Rushforth.
Exploring the entanglement of religion and psychotherapy in
twentieth-century Scotland Far from being washed away by the tide
of secularization that swept post-war United Kingdom, one of the
ways in which Christianity in Scotland survived, and transformed
itself, was by drawing on the alliances that it had built earlier
in the century with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis was seen as a way to purify Christianity, and to
propel it in a scientifically rational and socially progressive
direction. This book draws upon a wealth of archival research to
uncover the complex interaction between religion and psychotherapy
in twentieth-century Scotland. It explores the practical and
intellectual alliance created between the Scottish churches and
Scottish psychotherapy that found expression in the work of
celebrated figures such as the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing and
the pioneering psychoanalyst W.R.D. Fairbairn, as well as the
careers of less well-known individuals such as the psychotherapist
Winifred Rushforth. Key Features -Uncovers the hidden alliance
between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and Scottish Christianity.
-Exposes the continuity running from Christian discourses,
practices and organizations to New Age spirituality in Scotland.
-Draws on extensive archival research on key figures such as R.D.
Laing and organizations such as The Davidson Clinic
The psychologist may appear in science fiction as the herald of
utopia or dystopia; literary studies have used psychoanalytic
theories to interpret science fiction; and psychology has employed
science fiction as an educational medium. Science Fiction and
Psychology goes beyond such incidental observations and engagements
to offer an in-depth exploration of science fiction literature's
varied use of psychological discourses, beginning at the birth of
modern psychology in the late nineteenth century and concluding
with the ascendance of neuroscience in the late twentieth century.
Rather than dwelling on psychoanalytic readings, this literary
investigation combines with history of psychology to offer
attentive textual readings that explore five key psychological
schools: evolutionary psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism,
existential-humanism, and cognitivism. The varied functions of
psychological discourses in science fiction are explored, whether
to popularise and prophesy, to imagine utopia or dystopia, to
estrange our everyday reality, to comment on science fiction
itself, or to abet (or resist) the spread of psychological wisdom.
Science Fiction and Psychology also considers how psychology itself
has made use of science fiction in order to teach, to secure
legitimacy as a discipline, and to comment on the present.
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