Psychological Subjects
Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathew Thomson (0000-0002-8155-3840, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 352 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Psychological Subjects (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199287802.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W1651903706 |
| Open Library | OL10146512M |
| ISBN | 9780199287802 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 94 |
This book provides the first history of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in 20th-century Britain. It ranges from the start of the century to the 1970s, covering academic and professional psychology, but devoting particular attention to popularization. It offers case studies of the emergence of a discipline and of psychology in relation to self help, the ‘new age’, education, economic life, medicine and psychiatry, the Second World War, and the ‘permissive society’. Questioning previous emphasis on psychology as a tool of governance, it highlights its role in enabling the imagination of not just better selves but a better society. It argues that the appeal of psychological thinking has been underestimated in the British context, partly because its character has been misconstrued. Psychology found a role because rather than shattering values, it offered new life. The book considers the extent to which such an ethical and social psychological subjectivity survived the challenges of an industrial civilization; a crisis in confidence regarding human nature wrought by war and political extremism; and finally the emergence of a permissive society. It concludes that many assumptions about the route to psychological modernity — centred on the rise of psychoanalysis, individualism, and interiority, and focusing on the liberation of emotion, talk, relationships, and sex — need substantial revision, or at least setting alongside a rather different path when it comes to the Britain of 1900-70.
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Period (music) · Permissive · Psychoanalysis · Psychological health · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Medicine · Psychology · 20th century · British · British Isles · Cultural studies · Ethnopsychology · Europe - Great Britain - General · Great britain · History - General History · History: World · Identity (Psychology) · Medicine and psychology · Modern - 20th Century · National characteristics · Social history
Reinventing French Aid
Don't worry”
Love, Sex, and Happiness in Education
'The Tender Instinct is the Hope of the World'
Fertile bodies, immature brains
Towards an interdisciplinary approach to wellbeing
Contesting certification
Pennies from Heaven and Earth in Mass Observation's Blackpool
Burglary Insurance and the Culture of Fear in Britain, C. 1889–1939
Probation Officers, Social Enquiry Reports, and Importuning in the 1960s
The social life of the brain
A Global Perspective
Sexual offence, diagnosis, and activism
Fabricating Modern Societies
Minds in Crisis
A Rather Spectacular Figure”
Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and 'therapisation' of social justice
Acting Local, Thinking Global in Post-War British Anarchism
Raindrops on roses
You Can Never Fill the Gap That's Left’
An Australian Internationalist Parts Company With the League of Nations
A History of “Rationalism” in Victorian Britain
Inventing Ordinary Anarchy in Cold War Britain
Are You Really Living?’ If Not, ‘Get With It!’
Lourdes and holistic spirituality
Sex, relationships and ‘everyday psychology’ on British magazine problem pages, c. 1960–1990
The right time
Revealing and Concealing Personal and Social Problems
The stress of work and work of stress in Britain in the late twentieth century
Reframing the ‘laws of life’
Computer dating in the 1970s
Pathways to the 1946 Curtis Report and the post-war reconstruction of children’s out-of-home care
New Times revisited
Place, memory and the British high rise experience
The Relation of the Sexes’
Reluctant liars? Public debates on propaganda and democracy in twentieth-century Britain (ca. 1914–1950)
Hidden Fathers? The Significance of Fatherhood in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Emotionally‐vulnerable subjects and new inequalities
Psychiatric Penguins
A ‘commonsense’ psychoanalysis
Inventing the ‘normal’ child
Brains and psyches
Introduction
William Sheldon, Aldous Huxley, and the Dartington connection
Spooks and spoofs
Political dimensions of ‘the psychosocial’
The intelligent and the rest’
The language of social science in everyday life
The liberal playground
War on fear
Film, observation and the mind
Changing psychologies in the transition from industrial society to consumer society
Children having children? Religion, psychology and the birth of the teenage pregnancy problem
Collectivity, human fulfilment and the ‘force of life’
The invention of the psychosocial
Glasgow’s ‘sick society’
The dangers of this atmosphere’
Access, accountability, and the proliferation of psychological therapy
Willpower
Replace them by Salads and Vegetables”
Un « alien » dans le cerveau. Expérience sociale de la maladie mentale et idiome naturaliste des neurosciences
Constituting neurologic subjects
Rehabilitation at Roffey Park
Child psychology from Vienna to London
‘Like sausages in a sausage machine’
The ‘social’ in psychiatry and mental health
Child development, film evidence, and epidemiological sciences
From talking cure to play- and group-therapy
Dreaming in the Stalag
Industrial Homes, Domestic Factories
The Live Dynamic Whole of Feeling and Behavior”
Revisiting Southam Street
A Nation Depends on Its Children”
The Making of a Translator
The Homosexual as a Social Being in Britain, 1945–1968
The Limits of Potential
Talking about sexual and reproductive health
A Healthier and more Hopeful Person’
Behaviour change policy agendas for ‘vulnerable’ subjectivities
From emotional and psychological well-being to character education
Marking time
Kew Gardens and the Emergence of the School Museum in Britain, 1880–1930
Popular Reading and Social Investigation in Britain, 1850s–1940s
An Epidemic of Nervous Breakdowns and Crisis Suicides in Britain’s War of Nerves, 1938–1940
Mental recovery, citizenship roles, and the Mental After-Care Association, 1879–1928
Beyond the Modernist Project
Psytizens
Buddhist meditation in Britain
Rethinking the origins of autism
Why and How Do I Write the History of Science
The Endurance of Uncertainty
Advice for Improving Memory
A useful science
Words That Disturb the State
| Unique citing works | 94 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,95 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 80 |