Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929-1969 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: First Edition, 3/11/1999
EAN 9780521565851, ISBN10: 0521565855
Paperback, 290 pages, 22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Psychologists on the March argues that the Second World War had a profound impact on the modern psychological profession in America. Before the war, psychology was viewed largely as an academic discipline, drawing its ideology and personnel from the laboratory. Following the war, it was increasingly seen as a source of theory and practice to deal with mental health issues. With the support of the federal government, the field entered a prolonged period of exponential growth. With this growth came major changes in the institutional structure of the field that spread to include the epistemological foundations of psychology. This book is a sustained study of this important era in American psychology. Moving back and forth between collective and individual levels of analysis, it provides a narrative that weaves together the internal politics and demography of psychology in relation to the cultural environment.
Introduction
the psychologists' war
1. Growing pains
after the Great War
2. Mobilizing for World War II
from national defense to professional unity
3. Home fires
women psychologists and the politics of gender
4. Sorting soldiers' psychology as personnel management
5. Applied human relations
The utility of social psychology
6. From the margins
making the clinical connection
7. Engineering behavior
applied experimental psychology
8. A new order
postwar support for psychology
9. Remodeling the academic home
10. The mirror of practice
towards a reflective science
11. Beyond the laboratory
giving psychology away
Epilogue
science in search of self.