Let's start by saying that I am actually referring to both psychology and psychiatry in this blog entry, but I couldn't fit both terms in the title.

Psychiatry and psychology want to see themselves as entirely empirical and scientific, independent of external influences, but in reality, they are not immune to the prevailing values in the wider society. In fact, they have always tended to follow and reflect the ideas that dominate a given period in history. What follows is a heterogeneous list that includes a number of ideological trends in the history of the West since the Enlightenment, as well as a few more mundane and recent political developments, conceptually paired with some key stages in the history of the psychological sciences.

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