Internationalizing the History of Psychology

Adrian C. Brock

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780814799444
• eBook ISBN: 9780814739082
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

While the United States 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 United States are ignored.
Internationalizing the History of Psychology brings together luminaries in the field from around the world to address the internationalizing of psychology, each raising core issuesconcerning what an international perspective can contributeto the history of psychology and to our understanding of psychology as a whole. For too long, much of what we havetaken to be the history of psychology has actually been thehistory 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.
Contributors: Ruben Ardila, Geoffrey Blowers, Adrian C. Brock, Kurt Danziger, Aydan Gulerce, John D. Hogan, Naomi Lee, Johann Louw, Fathali M. Moghaddam, Anand C. Paranjpe, Irmingard Staeuble, Cecilia Taiana, and Thomas P. Vaccaro.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Constructing Subjectivity in Unexpected Places
• 2 Transatlantic Migration of the Disciplines of the Mind: Examination of the Reception of Wundt’s and Freud’s Theories in Argentina
• 3 From Tradition through Colonialism to Globalization: Reflections on the History of Psychology in India
• 4 History of Psychology in Turkey as a Sign of Diverse Modernization and Global Psychologization
• 5 Origins of Scientific Psychology in China, 1899–1949
• 6 Behavior Analysis in an International Context
• 7 Internationalizing the History of U.S. Developmental Psychology
• 8 Psychology and Liberal Democracy: A Spurious Connection?
• 9 Double Reification: The Process of Universalizing Psychology in the Three Worlds
• 10 Psychology in the Eurocentric Order of the Social Sciences: Colonial Constitution, Cultural Imperialist Expansion, Postcolonial Critique
• 11 Universalism and Indigenization in the History of Modern Psychology
• Postscript
• Contributors
• Index