Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
viii, 319 pages :
portrait, facsimiles ;
24 cm.
SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-303) and index.
Prologue : spiritual physics -- a physics for the soul -- Places, periods and peoples : problematizing psyche -- Historical context: Japanese cosmology as secularized theology -- From soul to psyche : a change of mind in late nineteenth-century Japan -- Early institutionalization : how higher education disciplined the psyche -- Motora Yūjirō and Matsumoto Matatarō : the founders of Japanese psychology -- Intellectual reactions : spiritualizing the psyche and and psychologizing society -- Organizational institutionalization : professionalization, applications, and measuring the mind -- Disciplinary maturation : specializations, theories, and psychotherapy -- Nationalist-imperialist psychology : state, schooling, and military applications -- Reconstruction and expansion : postimperial Japan as a psychologized society -- Reconstruction and expansion : postimperial Japan as a psychologized society -- Epilogue : in retrospect : trajectories, alternative routes, and the contributions of Japanese women psychologists.