Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany

Klappentext The definitive work on the professionalization of psychology in Nazi Germany! now translated from German. Zusammenfassung It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany! faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds! withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a radically different story of how German psychology! rather than disappearing! rapidly grew into a fully developed profession during the Third Reich. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes to the readers of the English edition; Preface; Glossary of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. On the way to becoming an independent discipline; 3. The potential of psychology for selecting workers and officers: diagnostics, character and expression; 4. Psychologists at work: new professional activities in industry and army and their expansion in the war economy; 5. Legitimation strategies and professional policy; 6. University courses in psychology and the development of the diploma examination regulations (DPO) of 1941; 7. The diploma examination regulations and their consequences; 8. The disbanding of Luftwaffe and army psychology in 1942 and the reorientation of psychology in war; 9. Self-deception, loyalty and solidarity: professionalization as a subjective process; 10. Science, profession and power; Postscript; Comments on sources; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ulfried Geuter
• Assisted by: Richard Holmes (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521102131
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10213-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works