Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Geoff Bunn is Reader in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and an internationally-recognised researcher in the history of psychology and education.

• 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: Psychology and LGBTQIA+ 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