The self as project: politics and the human sciences / edited by Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen, and Christine Leuenberger. - iii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction : the self as project : politics and the human sciences in the twentieth century / Greg Eghigian, Andreas Killen, Christine Leuenberger --
Blueprints for change : the human sciences and the coercive transformation of deviants in Russia, 1890-1930 / Daniel Beer --
Weimar psychotechnics between Americanism and Fascism / Andreas Killen --
War neurosis, adjustment problems in veterans, and an ill nation : the disciplinary project of American psychiatry during and after World War II / Hans Pols --
Sick heil : self and illness in nazi Germany / Geoffrey Cocks --
From the inside out : therapeutic penology and political liberalism in postwar California / Volker Janssen --
"New Soviet man" inside machine : human engineering, spacecraft design, and the construction of communism / Slava Gerovitch --
Supervising spoiled selfhood : inquiry and interpretation in the history of modern American child adoption / Ellen Herman --
Cultures of categories : psychological diagnoses as institutional and political projects before and after the transition from state socialism in 1989 in East Germany / Christine Leuenberger --
The Chimera of liberal individualism : how cells became selves in human clinical genetics / Aryn Martin --
Self-development and civic virtue : mental health and citizenship in the Netherlands, 1945-2005 / Harry Oosterhuis.



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Self -- History -- 20th century.
Social sciences -- History -- 20th century.
Identity (Psychology) -- History -- 20th century.