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Eugenics and its evolution in the history of Western psychology: A critical archival review. Psychotherapy and Politics International, e1495. Yakushko, O. (2019)

Since its inception Western academic psychology has been influenced by and closely affiliated with eugenics, defined by its originators as the “science of racial betterment.” The role of eugenics has been minimally acknowledged in historical accounts of Western psychology…

Negative reflections about positive psychology: Humanistic psychology’s response. In The Journal of Humanistic Psychology Yakushko, O. & Blodgett, E. (2018).

“Positive” psychology has gained a dominant voice within and outside the field of psychology. Although critiques of this perspective have been rendered, including by humanistic psychologists, psychology scholars have offered minimum space for critical reflections of this movement in contrast to its critiques existing inside and outside the academia in other fields.