1st Edition
Psychology and Politics Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences
382 Pages
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Central European University Press
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... Read more
Introduction, PART I. Cultural Representations of Psychoanalysis in Personal and Social history, PART II. Ferenczi and Róheim Revisited, PART III. Psychoanalysis and Psy-knowledge in Soft and Hard Dictatorships, PART IV. The Politics of Psychiatry—Bodies, Illnesses, and Mental Health, PART V. Critical psychology and the epistemology of psy-knowledge, About the Authors, Index
Biography
Anna Borgos is Research Fellow is Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Ferenc Eros DSc is Professor Emeritus at the Doctoral School of Psychology, University of Pécs, Hungary.
Júlia Gyimesi ia Associate Professor at the Department of Personality and Clinical Psychology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Budapest.
