Psychologists on the March - Science, Practice, and Professional Identity in America, 1929-1969

Klappentext Psychologists on the March argues that Second World War had a profound impact on the modern psychological profession in America. Zusammenfassung Why are there so many psychologists in America today? This study seeks to answer this question through historical analysis of the middle years of this century. The book argues that the Second World War exerted a profound influence on the shape and structure of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the psychologists' war; 1. Growing pains: after the Great War; 2. Mobilizing for World War II: from national defense to professional unity; 3. Home fires: women psychologists and the politics of gender; 4. Sorting soldiers' psychology as personnel management; 5. Applied human relations: The utility of social psychology; 6. From the margins: making the clinical connection; 7. Engineering behavior: applied experimental psychology; 8. A new order: postwar support for psychology; 9. Remodeling the academic home; 10. The mirror of practice: towards a reflective science; 11. Beyond the laboratory: giving psychology away; Epilogue: science in search of self.

Product details

• Authors: James H. Capshew, James H. (Indiana University) Capshew
• Assisted by: Mitchell G. Ash (Editor), William R. Woodward (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521562676
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56267-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works