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In this volume, prominent American and European scholars explore the historical shaping of psychological discourse. Speaking from several disciplinary standpoints, attention is directed to the ideological, intellectual, political, economic and literary forces that enter into the cultural construction of mental life. In its explorations, the volume not only challenges the reality of the taken for granted world of everyday life, but raises fundamental questions concerning the potential of psychological science to establish historically independent knowledge of mental process. Contributions to the volume treat a variety of subjects, including the emotions, cognition, the concept of child development, psychotherapy, gender differences and knowledge. Additional chapters represent first-hand accounts of historical change in psychological movements.

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• List of contributors
• 1 Psychological discourse in historical context: an Introduction
• Part I Disciplining Psychological Discourse
• 2 The practice of psychological discourse
• 3 From tools to theories: discovery in cognitive psychology
• 4 Metaphor and monophony in the twentieth-century psychology of emotions
• 5 Psyche and her descendants
• Part II History as Culture Critique
• 6 Power and subjectivity: critical history and psychology
• 7 Cultural politics by other means: gender and politics in some Americans psychologies of emotions
• 8 Principles of selves: the rhetoric of introductory textbooks in American psychology
• Part III Early Antecedents
• 9 The naturalized female intellect
• 10 Sources of redemption in psychoanalytic developmental psychology
• 11 The historic vicissitudes of mental diseases: their character and treatment
• 12 Women as mothers and the making of the European mind Brigitte
• Part IV Lived History
• 13 Emancipation - a failed project? Remarks on the discourse of radical critique
• 14 The transcendental alarm
• Author index
• Subject index