Inspecting Psychology: How the Rise of Psychological Ideas Influenced the Development of Detective Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367362188 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 152 str.

David Cohen

Opis

Inspecting Psychology takes a sleuth’s magnifying glass to the interplay between psychology, psychiatry and detective fiction to provide a unique examination of the history of psychology.

Spis treści

1. The first psychologies: from rock art to the association of ideas 2. Psychology, phrenology and psychiatry: the late 18th-19th centuries and the work of Edgar Allen Poe 3. The birth of modern psychology: 1879 and the significance of apparently unconnected events 4. Psychology and mystical experiences: the late 19th century and the work of William James and Conan Doyle, allies in the mystical 5. Puzzles, riddles and Gestalt theory: the early 20th century and the work of G.K. Chesterton 6. The First World War, mental illness and shell shock: the work of Rebecca West and the detective novels of the 1920s. 7. Freud, psychoanalysis and the psychology of Agatha Christie: the golden age of detective fiction 8. Individual psychology and the inferiority complex: Lord Peter Wimsey and the work of Dorothy Sayers 9. Theories of learning and the rise of behaviourism: the 1920s and the work of Anthony Berkeley, the innovator who seized up 10. Attachment theory and the work of John Bowlby: psychology between 1930 and 1945 and the novels of Gladys Mitchell 11. Psychoanalysis and psychiatry from 1930 to 1960: Georges Simenon and the intellectual egos of Sartre and Lacan 12. Curtains: contemporary psychology, pathology porn and the enduring link with detective fiction