"Salem Possessed" in Retrospect

Boyer, Paul; Nissenbaum, Stephen

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“…Surely, Mechanical Man would read differently if not for Buckley's interest in the 20th century literary and mass culture, or the influence of innovative advisors like Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum—not to mention the serendipity of his research and writing process and the individuals a scholar encounters along the way. (K. Buckley, personal correspondence, August 26, 2019; Boyer & Nissenbaum, ; Buckley, ). Prone to methodological reflection himself, Buckley has interpreted the history of psychology and the historians craft in a way that takes into account these overlapping explanatory influences, of individual, community, and context.…”

Section: Psychological Selves Historical Selvesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The psychologist's biographer: Writing lives in the history of psychology

Luckey

2019

J History Behavioral Science

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How should historians employ psychological insight when seeking to understand and analyze their historical subjects? That is the essential question explored in this methodological reflection on the relationship between psychology and biography. To answer it, this paper offers a historical, historiographical, and theoretical analysis of life writing in the history of psychology. It touches down in the genres of autobiography, psychobiography, and cultural history to assess how other historians and psychologists have answered this question. And it offers a more detailed analysis of one particularly useful text, Kerry Buckley's (1989) Mechanical Man, to illuminate specific ways in which historians can simultaneously employ, historicize, and critically analyze the theories of the psychologists they study. Although ostensibly about writing biographies of eminent psychologists, this article speaks to a methodological issue facing any historian contemplating the role psychological theories should play in their historical narratives.

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Section: Psychological Selves Historical Selvesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The psychologist's biographer: Writing lives in the history of psychology

Luckey

2019

J History Behavioral Science

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“…Según estos autores, el conflicto primordial se fundaba en un enfrentamiento entre la facción de los Putnam, defensores de una separación de facto de la ciudad, a fin de salvaguardar, entre otras razones el tradicionalismo puritano; y los Porter, quienes abogaban por la apertura a los nuevos cambios socioeconómicos 36 . Boyer y Nissenbaum afirman, a su vez, que la familia Putnam había protagonizado numerosas disputas con la mayoría de los posteriores acusados 37 .…”

Section: Análisis Del Componente Femenino En La Concepción De La Brujaunclassified

El fenómeno de la caza de brujas. El caso de las acusaciones por brujería en la aldea de Salem

Fargas García

2016

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En los albores de un nuevo siglo, en el año 1692, la aldea de Salem fue escenario de uno de los procesos de acusaciones por brujería más destacados de la historia. Un grupo de niñas comenzó a presentar comportamientos poco naturales, tales como espasmos musculares, dolores continuos y alucinaciones. El diagnóstico concluyó que habían sido embrujadas, y como consecuencia la aldea estaba siendo atacada por brujas residentes en la propia comunidad. Ello devino en una sucesión de acusaciones indiscriminadas por el delito de brujería. Este artículo pretende abordar el fenómeno de la caza de brujas, así como los aspectos más relevantes en su concepción. En este sentido, el factor de género será un punto clave al ser las mujeres las que más acusaciones recibían. Finalmente este desarrollo desembocará en una explicación del caso concreto de las acusaciones por brujería en la aldea de Salem.

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“…125 Similarly, one of the factors which allowed the Salem crisis to get out of hand was the lack of an English governor. 126 In Spain, the 'Zugarramurri' trials in the Basque country were only prevented from escalating further because Alonso de Salazar y Frías, against the recommendations of his colleagues also brought in to examine the affair, was able to persuade Madrid that the Spanish Inquisition and not the local secular judiciary should be made responsible for prosecuting witchcraft. 127 That the witch persecution of 1590 was perceived by contemporaries to be the active policy of at least a faction of the Eichstätt canons is con-À rmed by Gregory of Valencia's report of that year.…”

Section: The Pattern Of Witch-hunting In Eichstättmentioning

confidence: 99%