Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 12/17/2015
EAN 9781316502846, ISBN10: 1316502848
Paperback, 324 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
As disciplines, psychology and history share a primary concern with the human condition. Yet historically, the relationship between the two fields has been uneasy, marked by a long-standing climate of mutual suspicion. This book engages with the history of this relationship and possibilities for its future intellectual and empirical development. Bringing together internationally renowned psychologists and historians, it explores the ways in which the two disciplines could benefit from a closer dialogue. Thirteen chapters span a broad range of topics, including social memory, prejudice, stereotyping, affect and emotion, cognition, personality, gender and the self. Contributors draw on examples from different cultural contexts - from eighteenth-century Britain, to apartheid South Africa, to conflict-torn Yugoslavia - to offer fresh impetus to interdisciplinary scholarship. Generating new ideas, research questions and problems, this book encourages researchers to engage in genuine dialogue and place their own explorations in new intellectual contexts.
Foreword Kenneth J. Gergen
Introduction
psychology and history - themes, debates, overlaps, and borrowings Cristian Tileagă and Jovan Byford
Part I. Theoretical Dialogues
1. History, psychology and social memory Geoffrey Cubitt
2. The incommensurability of psychoanalysis and history Joan Wallach Scott
3. Bringing the brain into history
behind Hunt's and Smail's appeals to neurohistory Jeremy Burman
4. The successes and obstacles to the interdisciplinary marriage of psychology and history Paul Elovitz
5. Questioning interdisciplinarity
history, social psychology and the theory of social representations Ivana Marková
Part II. Empirical Dialogues
Cognition, Affect and the Self
6. Redefining historical identities
sexuality, gender, and the self Carolyn Dean
7. The affective turn
historicising the emotions Rob Boddice
8. The role of cognitive orientation in the foreign policies and interpersonal understandings of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937–41 Mark E. Blum
9. Self esteem before William James
phrenology's forgotten faculty George Turner, Susan Condor and Alan Collins
Part III. Empirical Dialogues
Prejudice, Ideology, Stereotypes and National Character
10. Two histories of prejudice Kevin Durrheim
11. Henri Tajfel, Peretz Bernstein and the history of Der Antisemitismus Michael Billig
12. Historical stereotypes and histories of stereotypes Mark Knights
13. Psychology, the Viennese legacy and the construction of identity in Yugoslavia Cathie Carmichael
Conclusion
barriers to and promises of the interdisciplinary dialogue between psychology and history Cristian Tileagă and Jovan Byford.