Internationalizing the History of Psychology

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Adrian C. Brock
NYU Press, 2006 - 260 páginas
View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.A welcome corrective to the texts that place North America at the center of the intellectual universe. The volume uses an international perspective to illuminate important topics for all countries, including psychology's relation to liberal democracy, the psychologizing of social relations, and psychology's role in cultural imperialism.... An illuminating guide to the history of psychology. --Benjamin Harris, University of New HampshireThe history of psychology is at the forefront of the struggle to re-vision the discipline as a genuine set of global and diverse maps. Instead of a uniform topography where only certain features count, and the only places worth studying are those that are home to the original map-makers, this book offers a new cartography for those willing to invest in different landscapes of psychology. For those who wish to glimpse the future of psychology, there is no better place to begin than with this historical volume. --Henderikus J. Stam, University of Calgary and editor of the journal Theory & PsychologyWhile the U.S. was dominant in the development of psychology for much of the twentieth century, other countries have experienced significant growth in this area since the end of World War II. The percentage of those in the discipline who live and work in the United States has been growing smaller, and it is now impossible to completely understand the field if developments in psychology outside of the U.S. are ignored.This volume brings together luminaries in the field from around the world, including Ruben Ardila, Geoffrey Blowers, Kurt Danziger, Aydan Gulerce, John D. Hogan and Thomas P. Vaccaro, Johann Louw, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Naomi Lee, Anand Paranjpe, Irmingard Staeuble and Cecilia Taiana. Rather than presenting descriptive accounts of psychology in particular countries, each raises core issues concerning what an international perspective can contribute to the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole.For too long, much of what we have taken to be the history of psychology has actually been the history of American psychology. This volume, ideal for student use and for those in the field, illuminates how what we have been missing may change our views of the nature of psychology and its history.

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Introduction
1
1 Constructing Subjectivity in Unexpected Places
16
Examination of the Reception of Wundts and FreudsTheories in Argentina
34
Reflections on the History of Psychology in India
56
4 History of Psychology in Turkey as a Sign of DiverseModernization and Global Psychologization
75
5 Origins of Scientific Psychology in China 18991949
94
6 Behavior Analysis in an International Context
112
7 Internationalizing the History of USDevelopmental Psychology
133
A Spurious Connection?
152
The Process of UniversalizingPsychology in the Three Worlds
163
Colonial Constitution CulturalImperialist Expansion Postcolonial Critique
183
11 Universalism and Indigenization in the History ofModern Psychology
208
Postscript
226
Contributors
241
Index
245
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Adrian C. Brock is College Lecturer, School of Psychology, University College Dublin. He is coeditor of Rediscovering the History of Psychology: Essays Inspired by the Work of Kurt Danziger.

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