Jan De Vos’s second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. Engaging with seminal thinkers such La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the book teases out the limits of psychoanalysis as a critical tool.
Table of Content
Introduction: Psychology and its Doubles 1. Psychology, a Post-Cartesian Discipline. La Mettrie and the Perverse Core of the Psy-sciences 2. From Psychologism to Psychologization. Edmund Husserl’s Life-world Revisited 3. Therapeutic Culture and its Discontents. Christopher Lasch’s Critique on Post-war Psychologization 4. Psycho-politics. Giorgi Agamben Homo Sacer as the Homo Psychologicus 5. Psychoanalysis and its Doubles. Towards a Hauntology of Psychologization Epilogue: Towards a Non-psychology
About the author
Jan De Vos has a MD in psychology and holds a Ph D in philosophy. He has worked as a clinical psychologist and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published widely on the topic of psychologization and is author of the book Psychologisation in times of Globalisation (2011).
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