Varieties of Psychologization in Communist Europe

著者名：Lehmbrock, Verena/Wieser, Martin (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2026/11/02発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197773499
• eISBN：9780197773512

Description

Varieties of Psychologization in Communist Europe brings together nine in-depth case studies and a set of commentaries to rethink the place of psychology in twentieth-century Europe. Challenging enduring assumptions that psychological knowledge is inherently tied to Western capitalism, liberalism, and individualism, the volume demonstrates that psychological concepts, practices, and forms of expertise also took root in socialist societies-albeit in historically specific and politically contingent ways. The case studies trace how psychological and psychotherapeutic knowledge circulated and was adapted across diverse national and disciplinary contexts after World War Two. They show how psychologists negotiated ideological constraints and material limitations in order to assert the social usefulness of psychological expertise, whether with or without explicit approval from state authorities. Rather than presenting a monolithic socialist psychology or a uniform process of psychologization, the volume emphasizes the plurality of its forms, shaped by local political constellations, professional cultures, and transnational exchanges. The concluding commentaries situate these findings within broader debates in the history of psychology and the human sciences. They argue for a decentered history of psychological knowledge that takes non-Western and non-liberal contexts into account and conceptualizes psychologization as a historically contingent and contested process rather than a unidirectional diffusion from the West. Varieties of Psychologization in Communist Europe invites reflection on how the experiences of Communist Europe complicate and enrich our understanding of psychologization as a global historical phenomenon.

Table of Contents

1. Varieties of Psychologization in Communist Europe. Outlines and potentials of a growing field of research. Verena Lehmbrock2. Psychoanalysis in Socialist Yugoslavia: Marxism, Emancipation, and Oppression. Ana Antic3. Measuring the Socialist Mind: The Transnational Roots of Intelligence Testing in State-Socialist Hungary, 1950s-70s. Annina Gagyiova 4. Silencing the Psyche: An Account of Repression and Resilience in Romanian Psychology during the Communist Totalitarian Regime. Julien-Ferencz Kiss 5. From a Working Mother to a Caring Mother. Psychological Expertise and Gender Roles in Czechoslovak. Katerina Lisková 6. Operating Yachts and Spaceships: Soviet Engineering Psychology and the Space Program. Andrei Ilin 7. How Competition Feels: The Cold War Politics of Emotion in East-West Scientific Collaboration. Verena Lehmbrock8. "The Hidden Network of Communities": Psychotherapy in Hungary from the 1960s to the Regime Change. Melinda Kovai 9. Operative psychology, the regulation of behavior in the interrogation room and the contradictory modernization of the GDR. Martin Wieser10. The "Golden Age" of Educational Psychology in Soviet Lithuania. Junona Almonaitien?11. Psychologization in Capitalism and Communism: A Comparative Analysis. Zed Zhipeng Gao12. The Janus Face of Socialist Psychology: Liberation and Control in Eastern Europe. Kate?ina Lisková 13. Disciplines Beyond the West: Epistemologies of Psychologization. Stéphanie PachePsychologization revisited: A view from the East. Martin Wieser