Shameful Sciences

Eugenics and Social Darwinism in American Psychology

Oksana Yakushko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2026
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5492-2 (ISBN)

Noch nicht erschienen (ca. März 2026)
Portofrei ab CHF 40
Auch auf Rechnung

Artikel merken

Shameful Sciences documents varied forms of problematic biased theorizing influencing early Western and American psychology. The book brings to light ideologies promoted by key U.S. psychology leaders, specifically those grounded in social Darwinism and eugenics. The book also traces the influence of eugenics in creation of American psychology epistemological/disciplinary practices, including the comparisons of humans to caged animals, extensive testing of “fitness,” focus on moral and behavioral control of human beings, and on exclusive focus on “positive” emotions.

Oksana Yakushko PhD is the chair and professor of clinical psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, CA. Her work has focused on issues of xenophobia, gender violence, and global inequalities, as evidenced by over 60 peer review scholarly articles and book chapters. In addition, she has written on both xenophobia as well as socio-historical problems with misuses of psychological sciences in two books, published by Palgrave/McMillan in 2018 and 2019. She has received numerous awards for her work from the American Psychological Association, the American Women in Psychology and other organization. Her work was featured in the Atlantic and the Discovery News. In addition, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (2018) and received a prestigious Woman of the Year Award from a feminist section within the APA. In addition, she has worked together with the Smithsonian Institution Memorial Holocaust Museum on multiple presentations on xenophobia and anti-Semitism as well as worked as a l

Tables of Contents
Introduction 4
Chapter 1: “In Science We [Must Blindly] Trust” or Scientism and the Totalitarian Government Control (in Psychology)12
Chapter 2: The Enlightenment Sciences and the Politics of Control: Social Darwinism
Chapter 3: Classic Eugenics and the Emergence of Eugenic Psychology
Chapter 4: American Psychology in Service of American Eugenics
Chapter 5: The All-star American Eugenic Studies by American Psychologists
Chapter 6: Eugenic Psychology and the Politics of Sciences
Chapter 7: Contemporary Eugenic American Psychology 253
Conclusion 259
References 264

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2026
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5381-5492-7 / 1538154927
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-5492-2 / 9781538154922
Zustand	Neuware