Michael Pettit

Governed By Affect (eBook, ePUB)

Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why do ordinary people turn to psychology in the hopes of making themselves healthier, wealthier, and happier? Governed by Affect offers a multi-sited history of psychology and its role in American public life. Focusing on a series of transformations since the 1970s, the book examines the rise of psychology as a health science and the discipline's growing entanglements with public policy inspired new theories of inattentive and unconscious affect, which have come to structure health care, education, the economy, and how we understand ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197621875
• Artikelnr.: 72266758

Autorenporträt

Michael Pettit received his PhD in history from the University of Toronto. He is currently a professor of Psychology at York University in Toronto, affiliated with their Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology graduate area.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: A New Look for Psychology: The Antifascist Roots of a New
Discipline
* Chapter 2: Rational Living and Straight Thinking: Therapeutic
Cultures
* and the Promise of Liberty
* Chapter 3: The Tragedy of American Psychology: Racial Justice and
* Professionalism on the Expanding Frontier of Mental Health
* Chapter 4: Vigilant Minds, Thoughtless Brains: Warfare, Welfare, and
the
* Remaking of Cognition
* Chapter 5: Why Linda was not a Feminist: Expertise, Activism,
* and the Crisis of Confidence
* Chapter 6: Rethinking the Politics of Self-Esteem
* Chapter 7: How Faces Became Special: Perceiving Others in a Digital
Age
* Chapter 8: The Coming Crisis of Affective Science
* Conclusion