Module PY4344-KP04

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

not available anymore

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master Psychology - Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 2022, optional subject, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• PY4344-S Rassismus der Psychologiegeschichte und Gegenwart (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 30 hours in-classroom work
• 90 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Critical examination of the emergence/establishment of personality psychology.
• tracing the fundamentally eugenic-racist history of (personality) psychology and intelligence research
• Examination of
• Examination of the structures of eugenics and scientific racism (networks, research funds, research work)
• Examination of how academic psychology today deals (comes to terms?) with these issues
• Tracing continuities of eugenic ideas into today's university structures/political right-wing groups/public discourses
• Relevance of the confrontation with eugenics and racism for psychology and psychotherapy
• You will be able to reflect on psychological practices in a way that is critical of racism

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• The students are familiar with central figures of personality psychology and their connections and classifications with regard to eugenics.
• They can critically classify, evaluate and discuss the history of the research tradition
• They are familiar with continuities that still exist today and can classify their relevance
• You can name the role of psychology with regard to scientific racism and its social consequences.
• They can draw connections to their own university education and critically reflect on the contents

Grading through:

• presentation
• presentation
• B-Certificate (not graded)

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Sören Krach

Teacher:

• Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
• Prof. Dr. Sören Krach

Literature:

• :

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

28.11.2025