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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: psychology and history – themes, debates, overlaps and borrowings
- Part I Theoretical dialogues
- 2 The incommensurability of psychoanalysis and history
- 3 Bringing the brain into history: behind Hunt’s and Smail’s appeals to neurohistory
- 4 The successes and obstacles to the interdisciplinary marriage of psychology and history
- 5 Questioning interdisciplinarity: history, social psychology and the theory of social representations
- Part II Empirical dialogues: cognition, affect and the self
- 7 The affective turn: historicizing the emotions
- 8 The role of cognitive orientation in the foreign policies and interpersonal understandings of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937–1941
- 9 Self-esteem before William James: phrenology’s forgotten faculty
- Part III Empirical dialogues: prejudice, ideology, stereotypes and national character
- 11 Henri Tajfel, Peretz Bernstein and the history of Der Antisemitismus
- 12 Historical stereotypes and histories of stereotypes
- 13 Psychology, the Viennese legacy and the construction of identity in the former Yugoslavia
- Conclusion: barriers to and promises of the interdisciplinary dialogue between psychology and history
- Index