Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

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An Inclusive, Innovative and Critical Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This unique textbook offers an inspirational and engaging guide to Psychology’s past and present, told through fascinating stories about the discipline’s charismatic personalities and the controversies they generated. Geoff Bunn introduces students to an array of conceptual and analytical tools for critical thinking and demonstrates how to apply these to understand a variety of historical controversies, psychological theories, and individual personalities.Each chapter focuses on a core area of psychological study and integrates both conceptual and historical issues in a ‘guide on the side’ approach, encouraging students to form their own opinions of what they have read. The book takes an inclusive approach, integrating equality, diversity, human rights and intersectionality issues throughout and introducing students to often overlooked figures and areas of study.The text is supported by an extensive tutor guide featuring lesson plans, resources, key sources, recommended readings, and tried-and-tested classroom exercises that utilise tools for critical thinking. This is the ideal undergraduate textbook for conceptual and historical issues in psychology, whether taught as a standalone course or integrated into other psychology modules.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-31
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBPS Core Textbooks Series
Antal sidor328
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032933450

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Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Contours of Murder: Phrenology and the Logic of ReductionismChapter 2 Darwin’s Shadow: Evolution and the Naturalisation of MindChapter 3 The Skull That Sparked a Theory: Criminality and the allure of Natural KindsChapter 4 Remembering Herculine: The Looping Effects of SexualityChapter 5 The Queen of the Hysterics: Hysteria and the Mimetic BodyChapter 6 Pursuing Beauty: Psychological Laboratories and the Metaphysics of MeasurementChapter 7 The Cat’s Cradle: Untangling the Psychological ComplexChapter 8 A Troubled Cure for a Troubled Mind: Psychology’s Mastery of MetaphorChapter 9 The BITCH Bites Back: Categorisation and the Invention of IntelligenceChapter 10 After the Flood: Companion Species and the Co-production of PsychologyChapter 11 Pigeons Play Ping Pong: Behaviourism and the Crisis of the ParadigmChapter 12 ‘Three generations of imbeciles are enough’: Psychology, Biopower and the Apparatus of EugenicsChapter 13 Broken Bodies, Wounded Souls: The Psychosomatic Protest of Shell ShockChapter 14 The Secrets of Black Magic: Industrial Psychology’s Technologies of the SelfChapter 15 Duty, Uses and Abuses: Personality Psychology’s Modal SelvesChapter 16 ‘An Ego that Only Desires Pleasure’: Psychoanalysis, Phallocentrism and the Maternal MetaphorChapter 17 The Wisdom of the Crowd: Reification and the Authority of StatisticsChapter 18 The Machine That Knew Too Much: The Lie Detector and the Discursive Production of TruthChapter 19 Into the Dome: The Material Culture of Child PsychologyChapter 20 A Most Haunted House: Parapsychology’s Boundary WorkChapter 21 Mad Travellers: The Historical Ontology of Psychological CategoriesChapter 22 Behind the Mask: Psychological Diagnosis and the Politics of InterpellationChapter 23 Telling Tales: The Cold War Parables of Social PsychologyChapter 24 Hidden Treasures: Humanistic Psychotherapy and the Dialectic of MeaningChapter 25 Speaking Truth to Power: Community Psychology’s Critical ConsciousnessChapter 26 “You’re All Wet!”: Evolutionary Psychology and the Pleasures of FantasyChapter 27 Language Games: The Cult of the Fact and the Enchantment of DiscourseChapter 28 Unnatural Emotions: The Social Construction of FeelingsChapter 29 The Power Within: Cognitive Psychology’s Embodied CognitionChapter 30 A Cold of the Soul: Positive Psychology’s Neoliberal CureChapter 31 Ghost Stories: Romantic Love from Courtship to SituationshipChapter 32 Tell Me Where It Hurts: Feminist Psychology’s Critique of Hegemonic MasculinityChapter 33 Acts of Resistance: LGBTQIA+ Psychology and ActivismChapter 34 “This is Who I Am”: Black Psychology and Critical Race Theory’s Unfinished RevolutionChapter 35 The One with Rachel in It: Cognitive Neuropsychology and the Technological SublimeChapter 36 Train Wreck Looming: Conceptual and Historical Issues and the Crisis in PsychologyAppendix From Introspection to Big Data: A Conceptual and Historical Overview of Methodological Pluralism in Psychology