Introduction: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century

Pilot fatigue and the regulation of airline schedules in post-war Britain

“…The post-war era ushered in a 'new wave of state interventionism' in some respects. 93 The period is often defined as one of collective provision, with the nationalisation of industry, transport and healthcare cited as primary examples of this overarching trend. 94 As political historians are increasingly recognising, though, liberal values which stressed selfreliance rather than state intervention continued to influence policy throughout the post-war period.…”

El “museo de la psicología” como estrategia para la construcción de la historia oral de la psicología

“…Significativamente, la discusión acerca de los vínculos existentes entre la psicología y la historia permanece sin extenderse a las distintas áreas de la disciplina. Sin embargo, este debate ha llevado a cambios en la concepción de lo que es la psicología, de su lugar social, de las operaciones que cumple y, por supuesto, a reconsiderar las relaciones mismas entre historia y psicología (Castel, Castel, & Lowell, 1980;Danziger, 2001;Eghigian, Killen, & Luenberger, 2007;Gillespie, 1993;Herman, 1995;Rose, 1996Rose, , 1999. Las preguntas centrales para el debate, lejos de habérseles dado una respuesta definitiva, siguen a la orden día.…”

Introduction

“…7 If preoccupations with moderating extremism and mitigating conflict -or what Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen and Christine Leuenberger have referred to as being 'obsessed with the enemy' -constituted a key aspect of military manoeuvres, political systems and economic theories, they also featured in twentieth-century articulations of personal identity and psychological conflict, although in these circumstances they were often subject to more critical appraisal. 8 In The Divided Self, first published in 1959, the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing suggested that schizoid and schizophrenic individuals were split in two ways: 'in the first place, there is a rent in his relation to the world and, in the second, there is a disruption of his relation with himself ', leading to 'despairing aloneness and isolation' . 9 According to Laing, the 'technical vocabulary' of psychiatry, which focused on abstract oppositional and divisive concepts such as mind-body and psyche-soma, was unable to account for the complexity or relationality of experience and illness, that is -in Laing's deliberate borrowing from Heidegger -of being in the world.…”