A History of Marxist Psychology: The Golden Age of Soviet Science
What is this book about?What is new in the "new history"?Marxism in psychologyPsychology as social practiceTransnational psychologyPersonality: the "Romantic science"ReferencesI TheoryReminiscence about future Marxist psychology: one hundred years of solitudes-1980s: the portrait of the author in social contextEditing Vygotsky: how I wrote Leontiev's famous chapters: away from the "triumph of Marxism-Leninism" to the "oppressed science" and the "Russian way" in psychologyA case study: the life and ideas of Mikhail Yaroshevskii (1915—2001)Generations and cultures of Soviet (and Russian) psychologists: mind the gap!Marxist psychology: back to the futureFacts, theory and philosophy: interrelations and "disconnections"Vocabulary and phraseology of psychology and philosophyIn search of solution: Vygotsky's attemptLeontiev's "Marxist alternative"The contribution of the "revisionist revolution in Vygotsky studies"Marxist psychology: one hundred years of solitudeReferencesSergei Rubinstein as the founder of Soviet Marxist psychology: “Problems of psychology in the works of Karl Marx” (1934) and beyondReliable sources on Rubinstein's life and legacySergei Rubinstein: life and legacyRubinstein's "Problems of psychology in the works of Karl Marx" (1934): the context of composition and publicationRubinstein's sources: Marxist and otherThe structure of the articleIntroduction: Karl Marx and psychologyCrisis in psychologyThe three "psychologies"Overcoming the crisisMarxism as method: inventing the new language for psychologyConclusion: psychology as a "genuine, comprehensive and real science"The aftermath of the publication: paradise regained . . . or paradise lost?ReferencesII PracticeSoviet psychohygiene, outpatient psychiatry and international knowledge exchangesThe recognition of psychological vulnerabilityThe model of Henri Phipps' clinicThe extension of psychiatry to societyThe outpatient system at workThe priority given to outpatient psychiatryThe reconfiguration of the psychiatric domainForeign interest in Soviet psychiatryBetween insufficient support and rabid criticismPedology as occupation in the early Soviet UnionPedology as occupationThe proto-pedologists (1900s—1910s)Pedology's niche (1920s)Instituting the pedologist in the Soviet education system (1928-31)The pedology service (1930s)The downfall of pedology as the demise of an occupation (1935-36)ConclusionReferencesIII DialoguesThe golden age of Soviet psychology in the mirror of contemporary Marxist psychology in BrazilBrazil and MarxismBrazilian social psychology and Marxism: encountersPsychology, Marxism and education (1970—1990)School psychology and the search for a critical conception of scienceA controversy: what is the social nature and what are the implications of the Marxism of Vygotsky and his collaborators?Historical-cultural psychology in the current context: a look at Brazilian research groupsFinal considerationsNotesReferencesAlexander Luria: Marxist psychologist and transnational scientific broker: a personal accountIntroductionLuria and psychoanalysisThe latent aspect of Soviet psychology: a Cold War story of official PavlovizationPromoting Vygotsky: a fragment of Luria's science policyLuria's life-writingConclusionAppendicesAcknowledgementReferencesEpilogue: Soviet psychology and its utopias: historical reflections for current scienceIntroductionPsychology's utopias in the development of the USSRIs there a place for utopia in scientific politics?Perspectives and definitionsReferences
