B002723 - CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY

Italian

This course includes two sections. Part I. The origins of the scientific psychology in italy with a focus on the prestigious and even traumatic history of psychology in the University of Florence founded in 1904, the attacks of idealism and fascism against the "cingarelle of the sciences"; and the emigration of Jewish psychologists. Part II: in a historical and gender perspective some relevant issues (mental disorders, delinquency, violence, and fears) where psychology interacts with other disciplines, exp. law, criminology, and psychiatry

P. Guarnieri (2012), Senza cattedra. L’Istituto di Psicologia dell’Università di Firenze tra idealismo e fascismo, Firenze University Press, Firenze.
P. Guarnieri (1993), A case of child murder. Law and science in nineteenth century Tuscany, Polity Press and Blackwell, Cambridge –New York.
Law 36/1904: Disposizioni sui manicomi e sugli alienati, http://www.oaser.it/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/l-14-febbraio-1904-n-36.pdf e
Law 180/1978: Accertamenti e trattamenti sanitari volontari e obbligatori, http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_normativa_888_allegato.pdf
Legge 56/1989. Ordinamento della professione di psicologo, http://www.psy.it/allegati/legge_56_1989_02_18.pdf
Censis, Fearless: dialoghi per combattere le paure, scaricabile a http://www.censis.it/14?shadow_ricerca=5602


For not attending students, also one of the followings:
Aa. Vv. (2009), In scienza e coscienza. Maternità nascite e aborti tra esperienze e bioetica, Carocci, Roma
P. Marchetti (2014), L'inconscio in tribunale... Da Charcot alle neuroscienze, Milano, Franco Angeli.
Jervis G. (a cura di)(1999), Il secolo della psiconalisi, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, i capp. 1, 4, 8.

a) The historical perspective as a critical approach for the awareness and analysis of the cultural and social construction of psychology as a scientific discipline, and of some specific issues
b) interdisciplinary knowledges which are useful for the psychological education and for working in multiprofessional team
c) critical approach and ability of understanding primary and secondary sources in order to develop a making judgements autonomy.

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Lecturing with discussion of films, documentaries and some sources of the program.

Changes concerning the bibliography might be announced during the course

written examination(open questions)on the texts and didactic activity; optional oral as a discussion of the written exam.

The origins of psychology in Italy are very connected with psychiatry and physiology. The first academic center of psychology was in Florence. At the beginning of the XXth century, psychology was a new and controversial science. How were the psychologists trained? In which Faculty? Medicine or Philosophy? How much did the leading political and cultural tendencies, of neoidealism and fascism, affect the quality of that science and what was taught and learned?
This course of Cultural and Social History will deal, throught real cases, with the experiences of the male and female psychologists of the recent past. We will look at relevant issues in specific institutions where psychology has been interacting since its origins both with with prejudices and with other disciplines, expecially the Lombrosian criminal anthopology and psychiatry. How did the definitions and perceptions of the so called dangerous individuals change from the late XIXth century to the present? And those of mentally disordered people? Hod did both the laws and the places of custody and care change in Italy?