{"title":"Teaching history of psychotherapy to undergraduates: An interview with Elizabeth Lunbeck.","authors":"Wei Zhang","doi":"10.1037/hop0000279","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Elizabeth Lunbeck (EL) is a professor and chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where her research and teaching focus on the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychiatry. The author, Wei Zhang (WZ), a visiting scholar at Harvard University, audited Elizabeth Lunbeck's undergraduate course, Psychotherapy and the Modern Self; of note, 600 students enrolled in the course in the calendar year 2024. The interview, conducted on December 20, 2024, at the Harvard University Science Center, focused on Elizabeth Lunbeck's experiences teaching this course. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"241-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History of Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000279","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/8/28 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Elizabeth Lunbeck (EL) is a professor and chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, where her research and teaching focus on the history of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychiatry. The author, Wei Zhang (WZ), a visiting scholar at Harvard University, audited Elizabeth Lunbeck's undergraduate course, Psychotherapy and the Modern Self; of note, 600 students enrolled in the course in the calendar year 2024. The interview, conducted on December 20, 2024, at the Harvard University Science Center, focused on Elizabeth Lunbeck's experiences teaching this course. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
期刊介绍:
History of Psychology features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology"s past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced. It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, and the teaching of the history of psychology.