Wrong-Doing, Truth-Seeking. A Cultural History of Criminal Interrogation, 1750-1850 KU Leuven
Psychology is not only a matter of professional psychologists. Historians have shown that psychological knowledge has often not been created in laboratories or academies, but had its origins in practical settings, such as schools and prisons. However, we know little about practical psychology before the late nineteenth century. As a result, we continue to undervalue how practical purposes for knowledge of the human mind have influenced ...