· 2012· Review
Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation
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- 2012year
Short summary
Psychological terms now dominate how we understand ourselves and the world, with psychological discourse pervasive in business, advertising, culture, politics, and personal life.
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Key points
- Psychological terms are increasingly used to describe self-understanding, social interactions, and global events.
- Psychological discourse has expanded beyond academia to influence business, advertising, culture, and politics.
- The 'overflow of psychology' is a global process, applied to diverse situations like torture, reality TV, and famine.
- The book analyzes psychologisation across science, culture, and politics, drawing on critical theory and philosophy.
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Abstract
Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply influence our society, and psychological-discourse has invaded companies, advertising, culture, politics, and even our social and family life. Moreover, psychologisation has become a global process, applied to situations such as torture, reality TV and famine. This book analyses this ‘overflow of psychology’ in the three main areas of science, culture and politics. The concept of psychologisation has become crucial to current debates in critical psychology. De Vos combines these debates with insights from the fields of critical theory, philosophy and ideology critique, to present the first book-length argument that seriously considers the concept of psychologisation in these times of globalisation. The book contains numerous real-world examples making it an accessible and engaging analysis that should be of interest to researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students of psychology and philosophy.
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