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History of Psychology

A publication of

APA Division 26 (Society for the History of Psychology)

Special Issue

Psychology, Politics, and Public Policy

History of Psychology

August 2011

(Vol.14, No.3)

Item #

5581405

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PDF

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American Psychological Association. (2011). Psychology, Politics, and Public Policy. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/hop/5581405

Comment:

As the essays in this special issue reveal, the spread of what is sometimes called the "therapeutic ethos" created new professional communities of psychologists, stimulated new areas of investigation, and produced a new understanding of politics and public policy.

Guest Editor

Christopher P. Loss

Table of contents

Special Issue Introduction: Psychology, Politics, and Public Policy
Pages 217–219
Loss, Christopher P.; Pickren, Wade E.

Psychology and the Politics of Same-Sex Desire in the United States: An Analysis of Three Cases
Pages 220–248
Hammack, Phillip L.; Windell, Eric P.

The Professionalization of Psychology Within the Apartheid State 1948–1978
Pages 249–263
Laurenson, Helen; Swartz, Sally

Psychic Aftershocks: Crisis Counseling and Disaster Relief Policy
Pages 264–286
Morris, Andrew J. F.

"Women's Studies is in a Lot of Ways—Consciousness Raising": The Educational Origins of Identity Politics
Pages 287–310
Loss, Christopher P.

Arnold Gesell's Progressive Vision: Child Hygiene, Socialism and Eugenics
Pages 311–334
Harris, Ben

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