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This article traces the history of feminist critiques of psychology and outlines the conditions that not only allow for the politicization of psychology by feminists, but also make it appear necessary in the United States in the 1970s. It describes what qualifies the feminist psychologists' project of transforming psychology as a process of politicization and what this entails. Finally, it proposes a reflection, based on this history and the proposals of the feminist psychologists studied, on what democratizing therapy means.
Keywords: féminisme, psychothérapie, critiques politiques de la psychologie, pratiques démocratiques, égalité, feminism, psychotherapy, political criticisms of psychology, democratic practices, equality
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AbstractThis article describes the work of the Revue internationale de filmologie with respect to psychology. As a rule, the journal was home to opposing tendencies tied to the quite apparent two-fold ascendancy, both philosophical and applied, of psychology in France in the 1940s to 1960s. The former led to introspective speculation, the other to tests and measurements deriving first from behaviourism and later from the theory of communication. A striving for interdisciplinarity, difficult to achieve in practice, also led psychologists to see their work in an anthropological, if not political light, leading them to work with sociologists and art historians. Some of their conclusions are still valid today, particularly with respect to the perception of movement and the “moral danger” represented by images. Other of their conclusions, too normative or too neglectful of experimental variables, became indefensible. What could possibly serve as an epistemological model for present-day research in film studies is the determination of some psycho-filmologues to see film as a “complete social fact” (Mauss) rather than reducing it to a “text” or a “stimulus.”
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SummaryThe profile of change within the North American tradition of empirical psychology which opened the way to the empirical study of the homosexual family is presented in this paper. Some suggestions as to the forces which seem to have facilitated these changes at the research level are mentioned. Then the scientific issues in research on families of sexual minorities are discussed. Finally, a specific clinical field of study, the study of conjugal relations, is introduced, to illustrate a) how studies comparing gay, lesbian and heterosexual couples have contributed to current models for explaining conjugal distress, and b) how they open the way to the formulation of general theories on conjugal adjustment.