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Psychology and Politics : Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences / Anna Borgos, Ferenc Erős, Júlia Gyimesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Central European University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, et cetera) have been connected to politics in diverse ways during the 20th and 21st centuries. Besides episodes in the history of psychoanalysis in politically troubled times, the chapters in the book explore the full variety of "psy" disciplines in dictatorships and authoritarian regimes such as Nazi Germany, East European communist regimes, a Latin-American military dictatorship, and the South African apartheid regime, discussing psychology's role in legitimating and "normalizing" dictatorships. The essays' authors also explain the ideological and political foundations of ideas concerning mental health and illness in Russia, Hungary, post-war Transylvania, and Germany. Currents of critical psychology are also discussed, which try to understand how academic, therapeutic, and everyday psychological knowledge is produced within the power relations of modern-market or state-capitalist societies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 104374
- ISBN:
- 9789633862827
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.7829/9789633863121
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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