1st Edition
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology An Inclusive, Innovative, and Critical Approach
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Contours of Murder: Phrenology and the Logic of Reductionism
Chapter 2 Darwin’s Shadow: Evolution and the Naturalisation of Mind
Chapter 3 The Skull That Sparked a Theory: Criminality and the Allure of Natural Kinds
Chapter 4 Remembering Herculine: The Looping Effects of Sexuality
Chapter 5 The Queen of the Hysterics: Hysteria and the Mimetic Body
Chapter 6 Pursuing Beauty: Psychological Laboratories and the Metaphysics of Measurement
Chapter 7 The Cat’s Cradle: Untangling the Psychological Complex
Chapter 8 A Troubled Cure for a Troubled Mind: Psychology’s Mastery of Metaphor
Chapter 9 The BITCH Bites Back: Categorisation and the Invention of Intelligence
Chapter 10 After the Flood: Companion Species and the Co-production of Psychology
Chapter 11 Pigeons Play Ping Pong: Behaviourism and the Crisis of the Paradigm
Chapter 12 ‘Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough’: Psychology, Biopower, and the Apparatus of Eugenics
Chapter 13 Broken Bodies, Wounded Souls: The Psychosomatic Protest of Shell Shock
Chapter 14 The Secrets of Black Magic: Industrial Psychology’s Technologies of the Self
Chapter 15 Duty, Uses and Abuses: Personality Psychology’s Modal Selves
Chapter 16 ‘An Ego that Only Desires Pleasure’: Psychoanalysis, Phallocentrism, and the Maternal Metaphor
Chapter 17 The Wisdom of the Crowd: Reification and the Authority of Statistics
Chapter 18 The Machine That Knew Too Much: The Lie Detector and the Discursive Production of Truth
Chapter 19 Into the Dome: The Material Culture of Child Psychology
Chapter 20 A Most Haunted House: Parapsychology’s Boundary-work
Chapter 21 Mad Travellers: The Historical Ontology of Psychological Categories
Chapter 22 Behind the Mask: Psychological Diagnosis and the Politics of Interpellation
Chapter 23 Telling Tales: The Cold War Parables of Social Psychology
Chapter 24 Hidden Treasures: Humanistic Psychotherapy and the Dialectic of Meaning
Chapter 25 Speaking Truth to Power: Community Psychology’s Critical Consciousness
Chapter 26 “You’re All Wet!”: Evolutionary Psychology and the Pleasures of Fantasy
Chapter 27 Language Games: The Cult of the Fact and the Enchantment of Discourse
Chapter 28 Unnatural Emotions: The Social Construction of Feelings
Chapter 29 The Power Within: Cognitive Psychology’s Embodied Cognition
Chapter 30 A Cold of the Soul: Positive Psychology’s Neoliberal Cure
Chapter 31 Ghost Stories: Romantic Love from Courtship to Situationship
Chapter 32 Tell Me Where It Hurts: Feminist Psychology’s Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity
Chapter 33 Acts of Resistance: Psychology and LGBTQIA+ Activism
Chapter 34 “This Is Who I Am”: Black Psychology and Critical Race Theory’s Unfinished Revolution
Chapter 35 The One with Rachel In It: Cognitive Neuropsychology and the Technological Sublime
Chapter 36 Train Wreck Looming: Conceptual and Historical Issues and the Crisis in Psychology
Appendix
Biography
Geoff Bunn is Reader in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and an internationally-recognised researcher in the history of psychology and education.
