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Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology - Geoff Bunn

Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

An Inclusive, Innovative and Critical Approach

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Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-93345-0 (ISBN)
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This unique textbook offers an inspirational and engaging guide to Psychology’s past and present, told through fascinating stories about the discipline’s charismatic personalities and the controversies they generated. Geoff Bunn introduces students to an array of conceptual and analytical tools for critical thinking and demonstrates how to apply these to understand a variety of historical controversies, psychological theories, and individual personalities.

Each chapter focuses on a core area of psychological study and integrates both conceptual and historical issues in a ‘guide on the side’ approach, encouraging students to form their own opinions of what they have read. The book takes an inclusive approach, integrating equality, diversity, human rights and intersectionality issues throughout and introducing students to often overlooked figures and areas of study.

The text is supported by an extensive tutor guide featuring lesson plans, resources, key sources, recommended readings, and tried-and-tested classroom exercises that utilise tools for critical thinking. This is the ideal undergraduate textbook for conceptual and historical issues in psychology, whether taught as a standalone course or integrated into other psychology modules.

Geoff Bunn is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and an internationally recognized researcher in the history of psychology and education.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Contours of Murder: Phrenology and the Logic of Reductionism

Chapter 2 Darwin’s Shadow: Evolution and the Naturalisation of Mind

Chapter 3 The Skull That Sparked a Theory: Criminality and the allure of Natural Kinds

Chapter 4 Remembering Herculine: The Looping Effects of Sexuality

Chapter 5 The Queen of the Hysterics: Hysteria and the Mimetic Body

Chapter 6 Pursuing Beauty: Psychological Laboratories and the Metaphysics of Measurement

Chapter 7 The Cat’s Cradle: Untangling the Psychological Complex

Chapter 8 A Troubled Cure for a Troubled Mind: Psychology’s Mastery of Metaphor

Chapter 9 The BITCH Bites Back: Categorisation and the Invention of Intelligence

Chapter 10 After the Flood: Companion Species and the Co-production of Psychology

Chapter 11 Pigeons Play Ping Pong: Behaviourism and the Crisis of the Paradigm

Chapter 12 ‘Three generations of imbeciles are enough’: Psychology, Biopower and the Apparatus of Eugenics

Chapter 13 Broken Bodies, Wounded Souls: The Psychosomatic Protest of Shell Shock

Chapter 14 The Secrets of Black Magic: Industrial Psychology’s Technologies of the Self

Chapter 15 Duty, Uses and Abuses: Personality Psychology’s Modal Selves

Chapter 16 ‘An Ego that Only Desires Pleasure’: Psychoanalysis, Phallocentrism and the Maternal Metaphor

Chapter 17 The Wisdom of the Crowd: Reification and the Authority of Statistics

Chapter 18 The Machine That Knew Too Much: The Lie Detector and the Discursive Production of Truth

Chapter 19 Into the Dome: The Material Culture of Child Psychology

Chapter 20 A Most Haunted House: Parapsychology’s Boundary Work

Chapter 21 Mad Travellers: The Historical Ontology of Psychological Categories

Chapter 22 Behind the Mask: Psychological Diagnosis and the Politics of Interpellation

Chapter 23 Telling Tales: The Cold War Parables of Social Psychology

Chapter 24 Hidden Treasures: Humanistic Psychotherapy and the Dialectic of Meaning

Chapter 25 Speaking Truth to Power: Community Psychology’s Critical Consciousness

Chapter 26 “You’re All Wet!”: Evolutionary Psychology and the Pleasures of Fantasy

Chapter 27 Language Games: The Cult of the Fact and the Enchantment of Discourse

Chapter 28 Unnatural Emotions: The Social Construction of Feelings

Chapter 29 The Power Within: Cognitive Psychology’s Embodied Cognition

Chapter 30 A Cold of the Soul: Positive Psychology’s Neoliberal Cure

Chapter 31 Ghost Stories: Romantic Love from Courtship to Situationship

Chapter 32 Tell Me Where It Hurts: Feminist Psychology’s Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity

Chapter 33 Acts of Resistance: LGBTQIA+ Psychology and Activism

Chapter 34 “This is Who I Am”: Black Psychology and Critical Race Theory’s Unfinished Revolution

Chapter 35 The One with Rachel in It: Cognitive Neuropsychology and the Technological Sublime

Chapter 36 Train Wreck Looming: Conceptual and Historical Issues and the Crisis in Psychology

Appendix From Introspection to Big Data: A Conceptual and Historical Overview of Methodological Pluralism in Psychology

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Reihe/Serie BPS Core Textbooks Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 1-032-93345-3 / 1032933453
ISBN-13 978-1-032-93345-0 / 9781032933450
Zustand Neuware
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