Petteri Pietikainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petteri Pietikainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petteri |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietikainen |
| SIGNATURE | PIETIKAINEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9067-8402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Republic of Fear: Mental Illness in the Finnish Civil War of 1918
This article examines the links between mental illness and the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Based on the study of patient records from a large state mental hospital, the article discusses the mental wounds of both servicemen and civilians and focuses on fear as an essential component in the onset of mental disorder. An examination of patient records reveals how civil war affected the mental health of ordinary people and created a collective psychol…
A psychological riddle demanding a solution’. Crowd psychology and the Finnish Civil War of 1918
Right after the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the first treatises discussing the insurgents (the Reds) in crowd psychological terms were published. Between 1918 and the early 1920s, several Finnish authors used Gustave Le Bon's and other crowd psychologists’ ideas of suggestion, mental epidemics, and the dangers of socialism in their interpretations of the aborted revolution. The article argues that the use of crowd psychology in the years following…
Hullut, vammaiset ja vammattomat
Allan V. Horwitz, Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era Allan V. Horwitz, Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp 367. ISBN 9780190907860. Petteri Pietikainen Petteri Pietikainen University of Oulu [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of…
Socialising the Anti-Social: Psychopathy, Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968
This article argues that in Finland during the two decades after the Second World War, the diagnosis of psychopathy represented a failed attempt to adjust ‘difficult’ individuals to the social order. Discussing the social and medical character of the diagnosis, we examine psychopathy using the analytic and historical framework of social engineering in post-war Finland. We utilise patient records, official documents and psychiatric publications an…
Strengthening the Will: Public Clinics for the Nervously Ill in Sweden in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
This article examines the development of state-run clinics for the nervously ill in Sweden in the interwar years. After the establishment of the Royal Board of Pensions in 1914, an institution for the care of the chronically neurotic was high on the agenda of this governmental agency. The Swedish state became actively involved in the fight against nervous illnesses, and the primary goal of these state-financed clinics was to turn neurotic patient…
Strategic self-marginalization: The case of psychoanalysis
Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific "cases": the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis wa…
Truth hurts: The Sociobiology Debate, Moral Reading and the Idea of ‘Dangerous Knowledge
This article examines the belief among the cultural elites that ‘people’ should be protected from dangerous knowledge, ‘dangerous’ in the sense that there are factual statements which may have negative moral and political consequences to society. Such a belief in the negative consequences of dangerous – that is, politically suspicious – knowledge represents an intellectual tradition that goes back to Plato and his famous state‐utopian work Republ…
On the origins of psychoanalytic psychohistory
This article examines the origins and early development of psychoanalytically inspired psychohistory from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It focuses on Erik H. Erikson, Bruce Mazlish, and Robert Jay Lifton and illustrates their contributions to psychoanalytic psychohistory. Erikson, Mazlish, and Lifton were core members of the Wellfleet group, a research project originally funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 to conceptu…
Consciousness Historicized: Philosophical History and the Nature of the Human Sciences
Utopianism in psychology: The case of Wilhelm Reich
This article examines utopian elements in Wilhelm Reich's writings in his American phase (1939-1957) in order to illustrate utopian sources of dynamic psychology. Although there are scholars who have used the term "psychological utopia" and applied it to individual thinkers (Reich, Marcuse, Fromm) and to specific psychological disciplines (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology), the term itself has remained elusive and vague. Furtherm…
Atom and archetype. The Pauli/Jung letters, 1932-1958
The Volk and its Unconscious: Jung, Hauer and the ‘German Revolution’
This article examines the relationship between the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist C.G. Jung and the German Indologist and völkisch scholar J.W. Hauer, with whom Jung collaborated in the early 1930s. In the latter part of the decade, Jung became increasingly wary of the political implications of völkisch doctrines and Hauer's völkisch ambitions, which reached their apotheosis in the founding of the German Faith Movement. There are two main…
Jung's seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra; C. G. Jung?His myth in our time
National Typologies, Races, and Mentalities in C.G. Jung's Psychology
Mesurant le role de l'anti-semitisme et de la notion de degeneration hereditaire dans la rupture entre Freud et Jung, l'A. montre que ce dernier developpe une doctrine de l'inconscient collectif inspiree de la notion romantique d'esprit des peuples de Herder, qui a marque le debut du nationalisme allemand. Etablissant une typologie post-psychanalytique des nations, des races, des mentalites primitives et des mentalites developpees, l'A. conclut a…
Response to Hester McFarland Solomon, George B. Hogenson and Anthony Stevens
Archetypes as symbolic forms
In Jung's psychology, archetypes are biologically inherited supra‐individual predispositions of the collective unconscious, and in this paper this controversial theory of archetypes is evaluated in the context of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. The main thesis of the author is that with the help of the Cassirerian approach, archetypes can be understood as culturally determined functionary forms organizing and structuring certain as…
Archetypes as symbolic forms
In Jung's psychology, archetypes are biologically inherited supra‐individual predispositions of the collective unconscious, and in this paper this controversial theory of archetypes is evaluated in the context of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. The main thesis of the author is that with the help of the Cassirerian approach, archetypes can be understood as culturally determined functionary forms organizing and structuring certain as…
Strategic self-marginalization: The case of psychoanalysis
Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific "cases": the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis wa…
Response to Hester McFarland Solomon, George B. Hogenson and Anthony Stevens
Utopianism in psychology: The case of Wilhelm Reich
This article examines utopian elements in Wilhelm Reich's writings in his American phase (1939-1957) in order to illustrate utopian sources of dynamic psychology. Although there are scholars who have used the term "psychological utopia" and applied it to individual thinkers (Reich, Marcuse, Fromm) and to specific psychological disciplines (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology), the term itself has remained elusive and vague. Furtherm…
Truth hurts: The Sociobiology Debate, Moral Reading and the Idea of ‘Dangerous Knowledge
This article examines the belief among the cultural elites that ‘people’ should be protected from dangerous knowledge, ‘dangerous’ in the sense that there are factual statements which may have negative moral and political consequences to society. Such a belief in the negative consequences of dangerous – that is, politically suspicious – knowledge represents an intellectual tradition that goes back to Plato and his famous state‐utopian work Republ…
The Volk and its Unconscious: Jung, Hauer and the ‘German Revolution’
This article examines the relationship between the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist C.G. Jung and the German Indologist and völkisch scholar J.W. Hauer, with whom Jung collaborated in the early 1930s. In the latter part of the decade, Jung became increasingly wary of the political implications of völkisch doctrines and Hauer's völkisch ambitions, which reached their apotheosis in the founding of the German Faith Movement. There are two main…
National Typologies, Races, and Mentalities in C.G. Jung's Psychology
Mesurant le role de l'anti-semitisme et de la notion de degeneration hereditaire dans la rupture entre Freud et Jung, l'A. montre que ce dernier developpe une doctrine de l'inconscient collectif inspiree de la notion romantique d'esprit des peuples de Herder, qui a marque le debut du nationalisme allemand. Etablissant une typologie post-psychanalytique des nations, des races, des mentalites primitives et des mentalites developpees, l'A. conclut a…
Response to Hester McFarland Solomon, George B. Hogenson and Anthony Stevens
Archetypes as symbolic forms
In Jung's psychology, archetypes are biologically inherited supra‐individual predispositions of the collective unconscious, and in this paper this controversial theory of archetypes is evaluated in the context of Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms. The main thesis of the author is that with the help of the Cassirerian approach, archetypes can be understood as culturally determined functionary forms organizing and structuring certain as…
The Volk and its Unconscious: Jung, Hauer and the ‘German Revolution’
This article examines the relationship between the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist C.G. Jung and the German Indologist and völkisch scholar J.W. Hauer, with whom Jung collaborated in the early 1930s. In the latter part of the decade, Jung became increasingly wary of the political implications of völkisch doctrines and Hauer's völkisch ambitions, which reached their apotheosis in the founding of the German Faith Movement. There are two main…
Jung's seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra; C. G. Jung?His myth in our time
Utopianism in psychology: The case of Wilhelm Reich
This article examines utopian elements in Wilhelm Reich's writings in his American phase (1939-1957) in order to illustrate utopian sources of dynamic psychology. Although there are scholars who have used the term "psychological utopia" and applied it to individual thinkers (Reich, Marcuse, Fromm) and to specific psychological disciplines (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology), the term itself has remained elusive and vague. Furtherm…
Atom and archetype. The Pauli/Jung letters, 1932-1958
On the origins of psychoanalytic psychohistory
This article examines the origins and early development of psychoanalytically inspired psychohistory from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It focuses on Erik H. Erikson, Bruce Mazlish, and Robert Jay Lifton and illustrates their contributions to psychoanalytic psychohistory. Erikson, Mazlish, and Lifton were core members of the Wellfleet group, a research project originally funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 to conceptu…
Consciousness Historicized: Philosophical History and the Nature of the Human Sciences
Truth hurts: The Sociobiology Debate, Moral Reading and the Idea of ‘Dangerous Knowledge
This article examines the belief among the cultural elites that ‘people’ should be protected from dangerous knowledge, ‘dangerous’ in the sense that there are factual statements which may have negative moral and political consequences to society. Such a belief in the negative consequences of dangerous – that is, politically suspicious – knowledge represents an intellectual tradition that goes back to Plato and his famous state‐utopian work Republ…
Strategic self-marginalization: The case of psychoanalysis
Marginality is an important concept in the history of science, though it is often used in a manner that presumes marginality to be a static designation. We contend that the dynamics of marginality are crucial to the history of psychoanalysis, a discipline that has moved between dominant and marginal positions. We address psychoanalytic marginality via three specific "cases": the marginalization among Freud and his followers when psychoanalysis wa…
Strengthening the Will: Public Clinics for the Nervously Ill in Sweden in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
This article examines the development of state-run clinics for the nervously ill in Sweden in the interwar years. After the establishment of the Royal Board of Pensions in 1914, an institution for the care of the chronically neurotic was high on the agenda of this governmental agency. The Swedish state became actively involved in the fight against nervous illnesses, and the primary goal of these state-financed clinics was to turn neurotic patient…
Socialising the Anti-Social: Psychopathy, Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968
This article argues that in Finland during the two decades after the Second World War, the diagnosis of psychopathy represented a failed attempt to adjust ‘difficult’ individuals to the social order. Discussing the social and medical character of the diagnosis, we examine psychopathy using the analytic and historical framework of social engineering in post-war Finland. We utilise patient records, official documents and psychiatric publications an…
Allan V. Horwitz, Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era Allan V. Horwitz, Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp 367. ISBN 9780190907860. Petteri Pietikainen Petteri Pietikainen University of Oulu [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of…
Hullut, vammaiset ja vammattomat
A psychological riddle demanding a solution’. Crowd psychology and the Finnish Civil War of 1918
Right after the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the first treatises discussing the insurgents (the Reds) in crowd psychological terms were published. Between 1918 and the early 1920s, several Finnish authors used Gustave Le Bon's and other crowd psychologists’ ideas of suggestion, mental epidemics, and the dangers of socialism in their interpretations of the aborted revolution. The article argues that the use of crowd psychology in the years following…
The Republic of Fear: Mental Illness in the Finnish Civil War of 1918
This article examines the links between mental illness and the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Based on the study of patient records from a large state mental hospital, the article discusses the mental wounds of both servicemen and civilians and focuses on fear as an essential component in the onset of mental disorder. An examination of patient records reveals how civil war affected the mental health of ordinary people and created a collective psychol…
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)