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Announcing paperback and Kindle versions of The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875-1950, <https://www.amazon.com/History-Japanese-Psychology-Perspectives-Contemporary/dp/1350074381/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1528037437&sr=8-1&keywords=history+of+japanese+psychology> by Brian J. McVeigh, Bloomsbury Press, 2017.ISBN-10: 1350074381 // ISBN-10: 1350074381



During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries the individual became the basic, self-contained unit of society whose interior life was increasingly privileged.This "inward turn" resonated with new forms of governance and constitutionalism that demanded self-determining citizens.Meanwhile, burgeoning capitalism required workers to become isolatable but interchangeable parts for mechanized economic production.Around this time the nascent social sciences began theorizing about the autonomous though alienated subject.Such developments were part of a broader psychological revolution that valued "inner experience."How did this interiorization of the person play out in Japan?This book explores the origins of Japanese Psychology.By highlighting the contributions of pioneers such as Motora Yﾅｫjirﾅ贀 (1858-1912) and Matsumoto Matatarﾅ贀 (1865-1943), it charts cross-cultural connections, commonalities, and the transition from religious-moralistic to secular-scientific definitions of human nature.Emerging at the intersection of philosophy, pedagogy, physiology, and physics, Psychology confronted the pressures of industrialization and became allied with attempts to integrate individual subjectivities into growing institutions and organizations.Such social management was accomplished through Japan's establishment of a schooling system that incorporated Psychological research, making educational practices both products of and the driving force behind changing notions of selfhood.In response to new forms of labor and loyalty, applied Psychology led to and became implicated in intelligence tests, personnel selection, therapy, counseling, military science, colonial policies, and "national spirit."The birth of Japanese Psychology, however, was more than a mere adaptation to the challenges of modernity: it heralded a transformation of the very mental processes it claimed to be exploring.Richly supplemented with appendices contextualizing and shedding new light on the development of Psychology worldwide, this book is useful for courses on Asian studies, comparative intellectual history, and the globalization of the social sciences. __



A Preface by Way of Acknowledgments

Notes to the Reader


Prologue*: *Spiritual Physics*--*A Physics for the Soul**

Chapter 1: Places, Periods and Peoples: Problematizing Psyche

Chapter 2 Historical Context: Japanese Cosmology and Psychology as Secularized Theology

Chapter 3: From Soul to Psyche: A Change of Mind in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan

Chapter 4: Early Institutionalization: How Higher Education Disciplined the Psyche

Chapter 5: Motora Yﾅｫjirﾅ贀 and Matsumoto Matatarﾅ贀: The Founders of Japanese Psychology

Chapter 6: Intellectual Reactions: Spiritualizing the Psyche and Psychologizing Society

Chapter 7: Organizational Institutionalization: Professionalization, Applications and Measuring the Mind

Chapter 8: Disciplinary Maturation: Specializations, Theories and Psychotherapy

Chapter 9: Nationalist窶棚mperialist Psychology: State, Schooling and Military Applications

Chapter 10: Reconstruction and Expansion: Postimperial Japan as a Psychologized Society

Epilogue*: *In Retrospect: Trajectories, Alternative Routes and the Contributions of Japanese Women Psychologists**

Plates; Tables and Charts; Snapshots; Appendices; References; Index



Brian J. McVeigh, PhD, MS

Behavioral Health Counselor

St. Peter's Addiction and Recovery Center

64 Second Avenue

Albany, NY 12202

Senior Researcher, Julian Jaynes Society

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