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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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That seems to fit well with what youre saying here. We went into institutionsschools, hospitals, prisons, factoriesthat were trying to function more efficiently. How did psychologists get the discipline off the ground? We studied what people did and established norms for how these institutions were supposed to function.