Re: [xmca] The sociocultural turn in psychology

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I've never been very much interested in psychoanalysis (too 
unscientific for me) but Eli Zaretsky's "Secrets of the 
Soul" (a history of psychoanalysis) I really enjoyed, lso 
emphasising psychoanalysis as a product and reflection of 
the times rather than as a viable theory of mind.

Andy

Larry Purss wrote:
> PS,
> Andy,for the historian in you, Suzanne Kirschner has written another 
> fascinating book on the cultural historical roots of psychoanalysis that 
> is an historical  developmental account of how Freud's theory is a 
> continuation of our Western religious heritage.  A concrete example of 
> how our "traditions that constitute us as persons" emerge from specific 
> concrete historical circumstances.  She has an interesting intellectual 
> background from which to co-author this new book on the sociocultural 
> turn in psychology.
> Larry


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