Modernizing the mind : psychological knowledge and the remaking of society / Steven C. Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Steven C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Psychology--History--20th century.

Psychology.

Psychology--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder? How did frightened people come to be called paranoid? Why are we considered to have emotional intelligence and not simply caring personalities?||While psychological knowledge began in the relative isolation of laboratories and universities, it has since permeated various professions, institutions, and everyday life. Society and our conceptions of self have fundamentally changed with psychology's modernization of the mind. Ward provides a social and cultural history of the spread of psychological knowledge, assessing the

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. How Truth Travels: Knowledge, Networks and the Organization of Society; 2. From a Moral Philosophy to a Science: The Struggle to Construct and Defend the ""New Psychology""; 3. For the Children: The Alliance of Psychology and Education; 4. Molding Morals and Minds: Psychology and the Modernization of Parenting; 5. Minds, Measures and Machines: The Materialization of Psychological Ideas; 6. A Séance or a Science? Psychology and Its Publics; 7. Psychological Codes of Civility and the Practice of Everyday Life

8. The Psychologically Examined Life: Issues, Healing, Closure and the Psychotherapeutic Self9. Conclusion: The Psychologization of the United States; Appendix: A Few Important Dates in the History of American Psychology; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-274) and index.

ISBN:

9798400687037

9786610373789

9781280373787

1280373784

9780313012204

0313012202

OCLC:

52923888