B002723 - CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY

Italian

Italian

Part I. 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. Part II: An historical and gender perspective on some relevant issues - mental disorders, delinquency, violence, racism - where psychology interacts with other disciplines, i.e. law, criminology, and psychiatry.

Part I. The history of scientific psychology in Italy with a focus on the psychology in the University of Florence under Fascism and the emigration of Jewish psychologists. Part II: A historical and gender perspective of some relevant issues -mental disorders, delinquency, violence, racism - 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, FUP, Firenze.
- Aa. Vv. (2009), In scienza e coscienza. Maternità nascite e aborti tra esperienze e bioetica, Carocci, Roma (Excluding the following articles: "Aborto volontario e aborto spontaneo"; Diritti della madre e interessi dell'embrione; Un "affare da straniere?"). Excluded articles are replaced by: Valentina Greco, Oggi, ieri, domani: molto più di 194, "Lavoro culturale", giugno 2018, http://www.lavoroculturale.org/oggi-ieri-domani-molto-piu-di-194/ e Stefania Voli, (2018), "Il parlamento può fare tutto, tranne che trasformare una donna in uomo e un uomo in una donna": (trans)sessualità, genere e politica nel dibattito parlamentare della legge 164/1982 "Italia contemporanea", 287/2018 (on line).

Legge 36/1904 e Legge 180/1978 (on line);
ISTAT (2015), La violenza contro le donne dentro e fuori la famiglia (on line)

For not attending students, also one of the followings:
- C. Carrino, Luride, agitate, criminali. Un secolo di internamento femminile (1850-1950), Carocci, Roma, 2018;
- P. Guarnieri (2006), L'ammazzabambini. Legge e scienza in un processo di fine '800, Laterza, Roma-Bari.

P. Guarnieri (2016), Italian Psychology and Jewish emigration under Fascism: from Florence to Jerusalem and New York, Palgrave, New York.
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 on asylums and Law 180/1978 (the so called Basaglia Law) on line
ISTAT (2015), Violence against women inside and outside the family, on line.
For not attending students, also one of the followings:Valentina Greco, Oggi, ieri, domani: molto più di 194, Lavoro culturale, giugno 2018, http://www.lavoroculturale.org/oggi-ieri-domani-molto-piu-di-194/. e S. Voli, (2018). “Il parlamento può fare tutto, tranne che trasformare una donna in uomo e un uomo in una donna”: (trans)sessualità, genere e politica nel dibattito parlamentare della legge 164/1982 “Italia contemporanea”, 287/2018 (on line)
oppure C. Carrino, Luride, agitate, criminali. Un secolo di internamento femminile (1850-1950), Carocci, Roma, 2018.
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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

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 and seminars with discussion of some primary sources, movies, documentaries. Experts will be invited.

Lecturing and seminars with discussion of films, documentaries and some primary sources . Experts will be invited.

Changes concerning readings might be announced during the course. Also see Moodle (the password will be provided during the course.)

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Changes concerning the readings might be announced during the course. Also see Moodle

A final written exams with open questions will aim to verify student's knowledge and understanding of the course program.

in order to verify the student's knowledge and understanding, and his/her autonomy of judgement are verified by analysis and discussions of the various sources during the course and by final oral and written exams with open questions on the interpretations of issues and texts syllabus.

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.
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, mental health and dangerousness, violence out and insiede 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?