Psychology and History
Interdisciplinary Explorations
Published on 20. February 2014
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-1-107-03431-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'An engaging volume exploring potentials and problems in relating psychology and history, drawing on recent developments in discursive and critical psychology. Looming in the background is the Holocaust with efforts to understand it intellectually, politically and personally.' William McKinley Runyan, University of California, Berkeley and author of Psychology and Historical Interpretation and Life Histories and Psychobiography 'This is a very welcome collection of rich and in-depth explorations of just how, and why, psychologists need to see their research as historically and culturally contextualised, rather than pursuing 'universals'. These papers, by leading figures in the field, also show how truly innovative cross-disciplinary work can be, generating new questions as well as new solutions.' Helen Haste, Harvard Graduate School of Education and University of BathMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-03431-0 (9781107034310)
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Persons
Cristian Tileaga is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and a member of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group at Loughborough University. His research centres on developing critical frameworks for researching social and political behaviour. His interests include the discursive analysis of political discourse, collective memory, the critical psychology of racism, and social representations of history. He is author of Discourse Analysis and Reconciliation with the Recent Past (2012, in Romanian) and Political Psychology: Critical Perspectives (Cambridge, 2013). Jovan Byford is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University. His research interests include conspiracy theories, Holocaust survivor testimonies and antisemitism. He is the author of four books: Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (2011), Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (2008), Conspiracy Theory: Serbia vs. the New World Order (2006, in Serbian) and Staro sajmiste: a site remembered, forgotten, contested (2011, in Serbian).
Content
Foreword Kenneth J. Gergen; Introduction: psychology and history - themes, debates, overlaps, and borrowings Cristian Tileaga 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 Markova; 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 Tileaga and Jovan Byford.