Middle class sprawl: Locating the psychologesque in the history of psychology.

Abstract

To add to the system of classes already present in the recent historiography of psychology, a new and broader class is proposed, the psychologesque. This class includes, along with a central core of master's-and PhD-level psychologists, surrounding belts of cognate professionals in other fields who are, to a greater or lesser degree, tinged with psychology. Advantages to including this broad class, in some ways similar to the U.S. middle class, in the history of psychology are advanced.

The racial economy of psychological care: Professionalism, social justice, and political action during american psychology’s communitarian moment.

“…This historical account recognizes the centrality of questions of employability and social utility to the history of psychology. Understanding psychology in postwar America requires recognizing the precise ways in which it became an ordinary, everyday, unremarkable job for many (Devonis, 2021).…”