Part I: An historical and gender perspective on some relevant issues - family relationships, mental disorders, delinquency, violence, racism - where psychology interacts with other disciplines, i.e. law, criminology, and psychiatry.Part II. The history of scientific psychology in Italy with a focus on Psychology in the University of Florence under Fascism and the emigration of Jewish psychologists.
Course Content - Last names L-Z
Part I. "Norm" and "deviance" in united Italy: a historical and gender perspective
Part II. The history of scientific psychology in Italy and especially in Florence under Fascism, and the forced emigration of Jewish psychologists.
P. Guarnieri (1992), A Case of Child Murder, Oxford, Polity Press .
Law 36/1904 on asylums (on line) and Law 180/1978 (on line)
ISTAT (2006), La violenza contro le donne dentro e fuori la famiglia (on line).
P. Guarnieri (2012), Senza cattedra. L'Istituto di Psicologia dell'Università di Firenze tra idealismo e fascismo, FUP, Firenze.
P. Guarnieri, Enzo Bonaventura(and/or articles on other psychologists) in Intellettuali in fuga dall'Italia fascista, Firenze, FUP, 2019 DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-872-3 (see alphabetical list on line) http://intellettualinfuga.fupress.com/en
N. B. More texts will be suggested during the course and in moodle
P. Guarnieri (1992), A Case of Child Murder, Oxford, Polity Press.
Legge 36/1904 sui manicomi e sugli alienati; e Legge 180/1978 (on line)
ISTAT (2006), La violenza contro le donne dentro e fuori la famiglia (on line).
P. Guarnieri (2012), Senza cattedra. L'Istituto di Psicologia dell'Università di Firenze tra idealismo e fascismo, Firenze, FUP.
P. Guarnieri, Enzo Bonaventura (and/or articles on other psychologists) in Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy, Firenze, FUP, 2019 DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-872-3 (see alphabetical list on line) http://intellettualinfuga.fupress.com/en
N.B. Other material will be offered in class and on moodle.
Learning Objectives - Last names A-K
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) gender approach and interdisciplinary knowledges useful for 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
Learning Objectives - Last names L-Z
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) gender approach and interdisciplinary knowledges useful for
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.
Prerequisites - Last names A-K
None
Prerequisites - Last names L-Z
None
Teaching Methods - Last names A-K
Lecturing and seminars with discussion of some primary sources, movies, documentaries. Experts will be invited.
Teaching Methods - Last names L-Z
Lecturing and seminars with discussion of some primary sources, movies,
documentaries. Experts will be invited.
Further information - Last names A-K
Changes concerning readings might be announced during the course.
Type of Assessment - Last names A-K
A final written exams with open questions will aim to verify student's knowledge and understanding of the course program.
Type of Assessment - Last names L-Z
A final written exams with open and closed questions will aim at verifying student's knowledge and understanding of the course program.
Course program - Last names A-K
This course of Cultural and Social History will deal, throught real cases, with the history of mentality and the history of scientific ideas, expertises and institutions, on mental health and dangerousness, violence out and inside the family in a gender perspective, 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? How did both the laws and the places of custody and care change in Italy?
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 - also with the expulsion of the Jews from the university- affect the quality of that science and what was taught and learned? The Florentine case and its international reputation is paradigmatic in still relevant topics.
Course program - Last names L-Z
The course will look at relevant issues in specific institutions, mental health and dangerousness, violence out and inside the family in a gender perspective, where psychology has been interacting since its origins both with with prejudices and with other disciplines, especially the Lombrosian criminal anthropology 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? How did both the laws and the places of custody and care change in Italy?
In its second part, the course will deal, through real cases,with the experiences of the male and female psychologists of the recent past. 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 - also with the expulsion of the Jews from the university - affect the quality of that science and what was taught and learned? The Florentine case and its international reputation is paradigmatic in still relevant topics.