Historiciser la culture thérapeutique

Historicizing “Therapeutic Culture”: Towards a Material and Polycentric History of Psychologization


The History of The Behavioral Sciences,Volume 59, Issue 3
 

Edited by Rémy Amouroux, Lucie Gerber, Camille Jaccard, Milana Aronov


 INTRODUCTION

Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization
Rémy Amouroux, Lucie Gerber, Camille Jaccard, Milana Aronov
 

SPECIAL ISSUE ARTICLES

Ernest Dichter's fur coat models: Fashioning a therapeutic culture
Christopher M. Rudeen

Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century
Janka Kormos

Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social-psychological training
Verena Lehmbrock 

The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden
Linnea Tillema

Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s
Mélanie Henry

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

Desperate remedies: Psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness Andrew Scull Harvard University Press, 2022. 512 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780674265103
Dennis Doyle

Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter, Emily Martin.: Princeton University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 9780691177311
Michael Pettit

Psychic investigators: Anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age. Efram Sera-Shriar, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 222 pages. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-8229-4707-3.
David T. Schmit 

Schizophrenia: An unfinished history Orna Ophir, Polity, 2022. 224 pp. $42 (cloth). ISBN: 9781509536474.
Michael Rembis

The analyst: A daughter's memoir, Alice Wexler Columbia University Press, 2022. 296 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231202787.
David Devonis

Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955 Elisabetta Basso; Marie Satya McDonough (trans.) Columbia University Press, 2022. 331 pp. $30.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780231205856
Stuart Elden

The Early Foucault By Stuart Elden, Polity. 2021. 281 + xiv pp. $26.96 (paper). ISBN: 978-1509525966
Patrick Gamez 

The Huxleys: An intimate history of evolution, By Alison Bashford, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2022. 576 pages. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 978-0-226-72011-1
Raymond E. Fancher 

Turning archival: The life of the historical in queer studies, Daniel Marshall, Zeb Tortorici (Eds.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 392 pages. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-4780-1797-4
Katherine A. Hubbard