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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000302

Martin Dege

{"title":"The politics of Kurt Lewin.","authors":"Martin Dege","doi":"10.1037/hop0000302","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000302","url":null,"abstract":"This article revisits Kurt Lewin's intellectual trajectory to argue that his project was, at its core, a political intervention in the epistemology of psychology. Tracing Lewin's development from his early experiences of social exclusion in Prussia, through his work in Weimar Berlin, Iowa, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the article reconstructs how his conception of psychology evolved as a response to the crises of democracy and belonging in the 20th century. It situates Lewin's field theory and methodological innovations-his distinction between Aristotelian and Galilean modes of thought, his concept of lawfulness in the individual case, and his theory of group dynamics-within the broader philosophical influence of Carl Stumpf and Ernst Cassirer. Against the empiricism and statistical abstraction that dominated American psychology, Lewin envisioned a science grounded in relations rather than resemblances, form rather than content, meaning rather than frequency. His insistence that every individual case is lawful redefined generalization as the analysis of situated possibilities rather than as historical regularities. In doing so, Lewin not only offered a concept for democratizing the epistemic foundations of psychology but also turned research itself into an act of emancipation. To \"make agency general,\" for Lewin, meant to extend the conditions of intelligibility and self-determination to all human actors-a project that remains as politically urgent as it is scientifically unfinished. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"243-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond support: Revisiting Joan M. Erikson's contributions to Erik H. Erikson's theoretical work. 超越支持：重新审视琼·m·埃里克森对埃里克·h·埃里克森理论工作的贡献。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000306

Haiqun Niu

{"title":"Beyond support: Revisiting Joan M. Erikson's contributions to Erik H. Erikson's theoretical work.","authors":"Haiqun Niu","doi":"10.1037/hop0000306","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000306","url":null,"abstract":"Although Erik H. Erikson himself and some scholars have acknowledged the significant contributions of his wife, Joan M. Erikson, to psychological theory, her specific role in shaping this framework has remained insufficiently examined. Drawing on an analysis of Joan's educational background, her shared life with Erik, and the affective and intellectual interdependence between them, this study suggests that Joan was not merely a supporter but a collaborator who was deeply involved in conceptual construction, structural refinement, textual revision, and the publication process of the theory. In particular, her involvement in discussions surrounding the concept of basic trust, the establishment of the \"generativity\" stage, and her systematic articulation of the ninth stage in later life represent important moments in the historical development of life cycle theory. This study further suggests that Joan's scholarly labor was not entirely invisible but rather was rendered partially visible and simultaneously marginalized within dominant academic narratives. Revisiting Joan's role in the construction and development of the theory helps restore the actual collaborative conditions of theoretical production rather than diminish Erik's scholarly achievements. This case highlights the value of attending to collaboration, intimacy, and the division of intellectual labor in accounts of knowledge production within psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and the history of science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"260-271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148594522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Anti-catholicism and the psychology of prejudice: A case study in secular blind spots. 反天主教与偏见心理：世俗盲点的个案研究。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000304

Jovan Byford

{"title":"Anti-catholicism and the psychology of prejudice: A case study in secular blind spots.","authors":"Jovan Byford","doi":"10.1037/hop0000304","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000304","url":null,"abstract":"Psychology's foundational literature on prejudice emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War, precisely as anti-Catholic sentiment was resurging in American public life. The article examines how key psychological works of the period-especially those of Adorno et al., Allport, and Rokeach-treated Catholicism not as a target of intolerance but as a source of authoritarianism, dogmatism, and social threat. Combining intellectual and cultural history with a critical historiography of psychology, it traces how older nativist tropes and mid-century secular critiques of Catholicism were elevated to the status of psychological insight, often in defiance of available evidence. In doing so, the article shows how a disciplinary blind spot, rooted in the secular intellectual climate of the era, helped normalize certain forms of religious intolerance and shaped the conceptual boundaries of what counted as prejudice (as opposed to legitimate critique). The case study of anti-Catholicism highlights a broader issue of relevance to psychologists and historians of prejudice: the importance of analyzing not only prevailing stereotypes and attitudes toward marginalized groups but also the intellectual and political debates through which attitudes and stereotypes come to be recognized as prejudice in the first place. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"293-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Within and beyond the world: Ludwig Binswanger's phenomenology of love. 世界内外：路德维希·宾斯旺格的爱情现象学。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000311

Aurelio Molaro

{"title":"Within and beyond the world: Ludwig Binswanger's phenomenology of love.","authors":"Aurelio Molaro","doi":"10.1037/hop0000311","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000311","url":null,"abstract":"This article reconstructs the central features of the phenomenological anthropology developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger through a close reading of the first part of his 1942 treatise Grundformen und Erkenntnis menschlichen Daseins [Basic Forms and Knowledge of Human Dasein], a work that has received limited attention in the English-language historiography of phenomenological psychiatry. Situated at the intersection of clinical psychiatry, phenomenology, and existential philosophy, Binswanger's project is interpreted as a historically significant attempt to overcome both naturalistic reductionism and intrapsychic models of mental illness by foregrounding the fundamentally relational constitution of human existence. Central to this perspective is the notion of Wirheit (\"We-ness\"), which frames love and friendship not as mere affective states but as primary modes of being-with (Mitsein) that disclose subjectivity, spatiality, and temporality. The article first situates Binswanger's work within the intellectual context of phenomenological psychiatry. It then examines the spatial and temporal structures of the modus amoris (being-together in love), emphasizing their expansive and durational character. The analysis subsequently turns to the paradoxical phenomenon of being simultaneously within and beyond the world as a defining feature of the loving encounter, before addressing the modus amicitiae (being-together in friendship) and its historical, plural, and destinal dimensions. In doing so, the article contributes to the history of psychology and to the historiography of phenomenological psychiatry while also highlighting the continuing relevance of Binswanger's thought for contemporary debates on intersubjectivity, relationality, and psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"317-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148867920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From exclusion to care: Colonial society and the treatment of mentally ill women in the Federated Malay States, 1930-1950. 从排斥到照顾：殖民社会和对马来联邦精神病妇女的治疗，1930-1950。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-07-30 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000305

Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh

{"title":"From exclusion to care: Colonial society and the treatment of mentally ill women in the Federated Malay States, 1930-1950.","authors":"Haszira Muhamad Yusof, Azlizan Mat Enh","doi":"10.1037/hop0000305","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000305","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the shift in social reactions toward women with mental illness in the Federated Malay States between 1930 and 1950, tracing the complex intersections between colonial medical policy, gender norms, and community attitudes. Using archival sources such as British medical department reports, asylum records, and administrative correspondence, the study identifies three distinct phases in public responses: exclusion and isolation (1930-1933), growing reliance on institutional treatment (1936-1940s), and the emergence of limited social support (1950s). In the early period, mentally ill women were often abandoned or confined at home, reflecting both fear of contagion and moral judgment rooted in patriarchal expectations of women's domestic roles. As colonial medical institutions expanded, families increasingly entrusted care to asylums such as the Tanjong Rambutan and Central Mental Hospitals, although this shift often represented social abandonment rather than medical trust. By the 1950s, rising education and the influence of welfare organizations marked a gradual, through partial, transformation in social attitudes, leading to community-based assistance and charitable support. The article argues that these evolving reactions reveal how colonial rule medicalized social deviance while simultaneously reinforcing gendered hierarchies of care and control. Through the lens of women's mental health, this study contributed to broader discussions of colonial governance, medicalization, and the social construction of \"madness\" in British Malaya. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"272-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148632619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Differentiating early European psychobiography-An Eastern European contribution. 区分早期欧洲心理传记——东欧的贡献。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-12 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000317

Amadeusz Citlak

{"title":"Differentiating early European psychobiography-An Eastern European contribution.","authors":"Amadeusz Citlak","doi":"10.1037/hop0000317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000317","url":null,"abstract":"Psychobiography of the early 20th century generally developed in Western Europe and primarily in the spirit of psychoanalysis. The history of this discipline and its early works creates a rather monolithic picture that is absent of representatives of Eastern countries or alternative theories. Articles, monographs, and scientific journals constantly construct their own (i.e., Western) world of research in this field. Using the example of one of the psychological-philosophical schools of Eastern Europe, the Lvov-Warsaw School, I attempt to demonstrate that its representatives conducted original psychobiographical analyses not only in light of psychoanalysis but also developed their own theory, providing them with a unique conceptual framework, categories, and possible explanations of human behavior. The article presents three main psychobiographies: Socrates, Jesus of Nazareth, and Taras Shevchenko-an icon of Ukrainian culture. The conclusions require a broader consideration of research in this field at the beginning of the 20th century and a closer look at the contributions of Eastern European psychologists. Eastern European psychology offered (and still offers) interesting propositions, which, I believe, can enrich the conceptual instrumentarium of psychobiography. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149185935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gestalt psychology-Hereditary psychology-Twin research: Kurt Gottschaldt (1902-1991) and the German-Japanese knowledge transfer during national socialism and the postwar period. 格式塔心理学-遗传心理学-双胞胎研究：Kurt Gottschaldt（1902-1991）与国家社会主义和战后时期德日知识转移。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000307

Lukas Frank, Dominik Gross, Nadezhda Durdova

{"title":"Gestalt psychology-Hereditary psychology-Twin research: Kurt Gottschaldt (1902-1991) and the German-Japanese knowledge transfer during national socialism and the postwar period.","authors":"Lukas Frank, Dominik Gross, Nadezhda Durdova","doi":"10.1037/hop0000307","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000307","url":null,"abstract":"The present article reconstructs the scientific career of the psychologist Kurt Gottschaldt (1902-1991) in the context of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik [KWI-A]) in Berlin, Germany. Against this background, it aims to analyze the scope and characteristics of the German-Japanese knowledge transfer during National Socialism and the postwar period. Drawing on Gottschaldt's profile as a Gestalt psychologist, the article establishes that his work at the KWI-A marked a programmatic reorientation toward hereditary psychology and twin research. The twin method functioned as an empirical instrument for quantifying the relationship between \"heredity\" and \"environment\" and was embedded within the institute's racial-scientific research program. The transnational dimension of this research is reconstructed for the first time through the cases of the Japanese visiting scholars Takagi Masataka (1913-1962?) and Kamitake Masaji (1909-1983). Their work documents both their institutional integration into the KWI-A as well as the lasting influence of the theoretical and methodological concepts developed there on Japanese psychology after 1945. The article demonstrates that key personnel networks, methodological approaches, and epistemological principles persisted despite the political rupture. In doing so, the study contributes to a nuanced examination of the entanglement of science, politics, and international exchange in the 20th century. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149139274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The dark side of Honorio Delgado. 霍诺里奥·德尔加多的阴暗面。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000310

Walter L Arias Gallegos, Mitchell Clark

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The James-Lange theory of emotions: A misnomer we should abandon. 詹姆斯-兰格情绪理论：我们应该放弃的用词不当。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-08-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-18 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000297

Ardi Roelofs

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The origin, naming, and impact of Zing-Yang Kuo's Vaseline technique. 郭庆扬凡士林技法的起源、命名及影响。