The Psychological Turn: Mapping Inner Space

The Psychological Turn: Mapping Inner Space

The Psychological Turn—the late 19th–20th century development of systematic approaches to the psyche through psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, humanistic psychology, and neuroscience—contributed:

1. Self-model as object of study: The self becomes scientifically tractable
2. Therapeutic interventions: Systematic affect modification
3. Developmental understanding: How selves form and can re-form
4. Pathology mapping: Understanding suffering in structural terms