TY - BOOK A1 - Pietikainen, Petteri T1 - Alchemists of Human Nature: Psychological Utopianism in Gross, Jung, Reich and Fromm, London (Pickering & Chatto) 2007. T3 - History of Political Thought, Imprint Academic, Vol. 25 (No. 1, 2004), pp. 86-115. Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pietikainen, Petteri T1 - Utopianism in psychology: the case of Wilhelm Reich JF - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 2 (2002), pp. 157-75. [Online ISSN 1520-6696] [doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.10034] N2 - This article examines utopian elements in Wilhelm Reich's writings in his American phase (1939-1957) in order to illustrate utopian sources of dynamic psychology. Although there are scholars who have used the term >psychological utopia< and applied it to individual thinkers (Reich, Marcuse, Fromm) and to specific psychological disciplines (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology), the term itself has remained elusive and vague. Furthermore, there have been few attempts to systematically examine utopian elements in twentieth-century psychology in general and the basic assumptions of psychological utopianism in particular. While pointing out that Reich's orgonomic theories have no scientific merit, this article argues for the relevancy of his ideas for understanding the nature of utopianism in dynamic psychology. (© 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.) Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pietikainen, Petteri A1 - Ihanus, Juhani T1 - On the Origins of Psychoanalytic Psychohistory JF - History of Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2003), pp. 171-194. [Online ISSN 1939-0610] [doi.org/10.1037/1093-4510.6.2.171] N2 - This article examines the origins and early development of psychoanalytically inspired psychohistory from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. It focuses on Erik H. Erikson, Bruce Mazlish, and Robert Jay Lifton and illustrates their contributions to psychoanalytic psychohistory. Erikson, Mazlish, and Lifton were core members of the Wellfleet group, a research project originally funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965 to conceptualize the foundation of psychohistory. The article gives an account of the early history of the Wellfleet group and argues for specific historical reasons to explain why psychoanalytic psychohistory emerged on the East Coast of the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A critique of the Wellfleet group in unpublished correspondence of Erich Fromm and David Riesman is also discussed. Y1 - 2003 ER -