Publications
Monographs
Edited books
Publications in international journals with peer review
Publications without peer review
Book Chapters
- De Vos, J. (2020). The Digitalisation of (Inter)Subjectivity. A Psy-Critique of The Digital Death Drive. London, UK: Routledge.
- De Vos, J. (2019). La psicologización y sus vicisitudes. Hacia una crítica psico-política. Mexico City, Mexico: Paradiso.
- De Vos, J. (2016). The metamorphoses of the brain. Neurologization and its antecedents. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Psychologization and the subject of late modernity. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
- De Vos, J. (2012). Psychologisation in times of globalisation. London, UK: Routledge.
- De Vos, J. (2011). Psychologisering in tijden van globalisering: een kritische analyse van psychologie en psychologisering [Psychologisation in times of globalisation. A critical analysis of psychology and psychologisation]. Leuven, België ; Den Haag, Nederland: Acco.
Edited books
- De Vos, J., & Pluth, E. (Eds.). (2015). Neuroscience & Critique. Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. London: Routledge.
Publications in international journals with peer review
- De Vos, J. (2022, forthcoming). Una crítica psicoanalítica de la psicodigitalización de la crisis COVID? DESDE EL JARDÍN DE FREUD? 21.
- De Vos, J. (2021). Psychoanalysis, a psychology of the masses for these digital times. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, e1597. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1597
- De Vos, J. (2021). Auto-ethnography and psy-critique in Covid times. A book review essay of Ian Parker’s Psychology through Critical Auto-ethnography, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY, DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2021.1922561
- De Vos, J. (2021). A critique of digital mental health via assessing the psychodigitalisation of the COVID-19 crisis. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, 19(1), DOI: 10.1002/ppi.1582
- De Vos, J. (2020). Psicología y crítica: extraños compañeros de cama. Lo que podemos aprender de la crítica de Ayn Rand a la psicologización. REVISTA TESIS PSICOLÓGICA, 15(2) 1-23 https://doi.org/10.37511/tesis.v15n2a5
- De Vos, J. (2018). Fake subjectivities: Interpassivity from (neuro) psychologization to digitalization. CONTINENTAL THOUGHT & THEORY: A JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, 2(1), 5-31.
- De Vos, J. (2017) Neuroscience and a place for critique. KRITIKOS, 14, Summer.
- De Vos, J. (2017) No hay futuro sin crítica de la psicología: una interrogación del marxismo al psicoanálisis. TEORIA Y CRITICA DE LA PSICOLOGIA, 9, 16–35.
- De Vos, J. (2016). The death and resurrection of (psy)critique. The case of neuroeducation. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, 21(1), 129–145.
- De Vos, J. (2016). Kritiek in tijden van neurowetenschap [Critique in times of neuroscience]. DE UIL VAN MINERVA, 29(1), 20–39.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Deneurologizing education? From psychologisation to neurologisation and back. STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION, 1–17.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Which materialism? Questioning the matrix of psychology, neurology, psychoanalysis and ideology critique. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 24(1), 176–192.
- De Vos, J. (2014). The iconographic brain: a critical philosophical inquiry into (the resistance of) the image. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 8, 1–13.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Psychologisering en moderniteit [Psychologisation and modernity]. ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ, 16(2-3-4), 47–60.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Interpassivity and the political invention of the brain: Connolly’s neuropolitics versus libet's veto-right. THEORY & EVENT, 16(2).
- De Vos, J. (2013). Wat is psy-kritiek? [What is psy-critique?] ETHIEK & MAATSCHAPPIJ, 15(1), 69–93.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Psychoanalytisch materialisme: een politiek filosofische benadering [Psychoanalytic materialism: a political philosophical approach]. PSYCHOANALYTISCHE PERSPECTIEVEN, 31(4), 399–420.
- De Vos, J. (2013). The universality of the virtual absence of critical psychology in Flanders: some personal remarks. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 10, 391–407.
- De Vos, J. (2013). The subject of the neuropsy-sciences stripped bare by her bachelors, even. QUADERNS DE PSICOLOGIA, 15(1), 95–106.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Como un zombi en Pompeya: el sujeto neurológico en su Ciberágora [Like a zombie in Pompei: the neurological subject in its Ciberagora]. REVISTA TEKNOKULTURA, 10(3), 719–745.
- De Vos, J. (2013). “Ahora que lo sabes, ¿cómo te sientes?”: el experimento de Stanley Milgram y la psicologización [Now that you know, how do you feel? The milgram experiment and psychologization]. AESTHETHIKA, 9(1), 48–75.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Psychologization and sexuality: the politics of the obscene. JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SEXUAL ETHICS & POLITICS, 1(1), 49–62.
- De Vos, J. (2012). The deadlock of Husserl’s life-world: from a critique of psychologism to psychologization. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 22(3), 324–341.
- De Vos, J. (2011). From La Mettrie’s voluptuous machine man to the perverse core of psychology. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 21(1), 67–85.
- De Vos, J. (2011). The psychologization of humanitarian aid: skimming the battlefield and the disaster zone. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 24(3), 103–122.
- De Vos, J. (2011). Depsychologizing torture. CRITICAL INQUIRY, 37(2), 286–314.
- De Vos, J. (2011). Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis. JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE & SOCIETY, 16(4), 354–372.
- De Vos, J. (2010). Christopher Lasch’s the culture of narcissism the failure of a critique of psychological politics. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 20(4), 528–548.
- De Vos, J. (2010). From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of postwar psychology/psychologization. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 23(5), 156–175.
- De Vos, J. (2010). Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8, 201–215.
- Gordo, A., & De Vos, J. (2010). Psychologism, psychologising and de-psychologisation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
- De Vos, J. (2010). Hauntology or the return of the real man: edging the Žižek-Laclau controversy on populism. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ZIZEK STUDIES, 4(3), 1–21.
- De Vos, J. (2009). On cerebral celebrity and reality TV: subjectivity in times of brain-scans and psychotainment. CONFIGURATIONS, 17(3), 259–283.
- De Vos, J. (2009). The Academy of Everyday Life—Psychology, hauntology, and psychoanalysis. (D. Aoki, Ed.) EDUCATIONAL INSIGHTS, 13(4), 1–17.
- De Vos, J. (2009). Now that you know, how do you feel? The milgram experiment and psychologization. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 7, 223–246.
- De Vos, J. (2008). From Panopticon to Pan-psychologisation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ZIZEK STUDIES, 2(1), 1–20.
- De Vos, J. (2006). Psychologisation: psychoanalysis’ (double) political appointment with history, the accoyer amendment revisited. JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE & SOCIETY, 11(3), 304–322.
- De Vos, J. (2005). On psychology and other symptoms. JOURNAL FOR LACANIAN STUDIES, 3(2), 258–270.
Publications without peer review
- De Vos, J. (2018). Which subject for the digital? A critique of digitalization's roots in (neuro)psychologization. Etkileşim, 1 (20-34).
- De Vos, J. (2015). Slavoj Žižek’s ideologiekritiek geïntroduceerd vanuit Lacans begrip van het Reële [Slavoj Žižek’s critique of ideology introduced from Lacan’s notion of the Real]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 49(3), 108–118
- De Vos, J. (2012). Iedereen psycholoog! Een schuinse blik op psychologisering en moderniteit [Everybody psychologist! Looking awry at psychologisation and modernity]. In T. Claes (Ed.), Door denken en doen: essays bij het werk van Ronald Commers (pp. 273–288). Gent: Academia Press.
- De Vos, J. (2012). Narcissism and the DSM V: Lasch and the political leftovers of the debate. (A) (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.), 8(2), 49–61.
- De Vos, J. (2012). Een schuinse kijk op de recente Žižek-hetze en het psychoanalyse-bashen in Vlaanderen [An awry look at the recent Žižek controversy and the bashing of psychoanalysis in Flanders]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 46(1), 95–100.
- De Vos, J. (2012). Psychoanalyse tussen huid en vlees: een gedecentreerd materialisme tussen psy-wetenschappen en filosofie [Psychoanalysis between skin and flesh: a decentred materialism between psy-sciences and philosophy]. FILOSOFIE (ANTWERPEN), 22(4), 15–21.
- De Vos, J. (2010). De Paradijsvogel: Boon’s proefschrift in de non-psychologie [The Bird of Paradise: Boon’s dissertation in non-psychology]. BOELVAAR PROEF (GENTBRUGGE), 10(3-4), 115–126.
- De Vos, J. (2008). Populisme: close-reading van de Žižek-Laclau controverse [Populism: a close-reading of the de Žižek-Laclau controversy]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 42(1), 46–52.
- De Vos, J. (2006). De speelplaats van het Vlaams Belang: over politiek en psychologisering [The playground of the Vlaams Belang: on politics and psychologisation]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 40(3), 16–18.
- De Vos, J. (2006). Socialisme of het recht op waarheid [Socialism or the right to the truth]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 40(1), 36–37.
- De Vos, J. (2005). Expeditie Robinson: homo lupus, psychologicus of cynicus? [Expedition Robinson: homo lupus, psychologicus or cynicus? STREVEN, 72(5), 456–461.
- De Vos, J. (2004). Meer psychologie: over het fenomeen “psy-infotainment [More psychology: on the phenomenon of psy-infotainment]. STREVEN, 73(11), 1021–1021.
Book Chapters
- De Vos, J. (2020). Digital Therapeutic Culture. In D. Nehring, O. J. Madsen, E. Cabanas, & D. Kerrigan (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures. London: Routledge.
- De Vos, J. (2020). Psychologisation, What It Is and What It Is Not: Objectivism, Psychology, and Silicon Valley. In N. Cocks (Ed.), Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts (pp. 45-61). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- De Vos, J. (2019). Neuroscience in Psychology Textbooks: Reclaiming Our Non-Psychology. In: Robert K. Beshara (ed.) A Critical Introduction to Psychology. New York: Nova
- De Vos, J. (2018). Neuro-Edukation und Kritik: ein Blick nach vorn. In: Franz Kasper Krönig (ed.) Kritisches Glossar Kindheitspädagogik. Frankfurt: Beltz Juventa
- De Vos, J. (2017). The neuroturn in education: between the Scylla of psychologization and the Charybdis of digitalization? In M. Vandenbroeck (Ed.), Constructions of neuroscience in early childhood education. London: Routledge
- De Vos, J. (2016). De la autoayuda psicológica, la psicología pop y el gimnástico cerebral hasta el “nudge”. El fin del sujeto psicologizado y neurologizado? [From psychological self-help, pop psychology and neurobics to “nudge”. The end of the psychologised and neurologised subject?]. In Roberto Rodríguez (Ed.), Contrapsicología. Madrid, DADO Ediciones.
- De Vos, J. (2016). What is Critique in the Era of the Neurosciences? . In J. De Vos & E. Pluth (Eds.), Neuroscience and Critique. Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. London: Routledge.
- De Vos, J. (2015). Self-help and pop psychology. In Ian Parker (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Psychology. London, UK: Routledge.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Psychologization. In Thomas Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology (pp. 1547–1551). New York, NY, USA: Springer.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Laclau/Hegemony. In R. Butler (Ed.), The Žižek dictionary (pp. 162–165). Durham, UK: Acumen.
- De Vos, J. (2014). Between the skin and the flesh: the modern subject and its materiality. In F. Ensslin & C. Klink (Eds.), Aesthetics of the flesh (pp. 2–13). New York, NY, USA: Sternberg Press.
- De Vos, J. (2013). Ψυχολογία και ψυχολογιοποίηση: μια κριτική των πειραμάτων του Milgram και του Zimbardo [From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of postwar psychology/psychologization]. In M. Mentinis (Ed.), ΕΠΑΝΟΡΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟ ΨΥΧΟΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟ : Κείμενα κριτικής κοινωνικής ψυχολογίας (pp. 97–132). Athens, Greece: Epikentro.
- De Vos, J. (2008). The double denial and the double bind of psychologization: the Accoyer Amendment revisited. Psychoanalytic practice and state regulation (pp. 101–112). Karnac.
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Some interviews
Bijdrage in artikel "Neuropolitiek: de strijd om het brein van de kiezer” Door Marnix Verplancke, De Morgen: 26-09-2016.
Bijdrage in artikel “That’s psychotainment!” Door Lieve Van de Velde, De Standaard: 27-10-2015.
Iedereen naar de psycholoog!(?) Interview in Peeters en Pichal, Radio 1 (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
Kijk dit ben jij - Interview in Filosofie Magazine (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
God is een psycholoog - Interview in P-Magazine (27/03/2012) door Wim Swinnen
Bijdrage in artikel "Zelfkennis : Hoe riskant is doe-het-zelfpsychologie?" in Psychologies Magazine, maart 2012
Bijdrage in artikel "Mag ik het niet gewoon verdringen" in De Muze, bijlage van De Morgen, 28/01/2012
Psychologisering is volksverlakkerij. Interview door Marnix Verplancke, eerst verschenen in De Morgen, 04/01/2012
De pretentie van de psychologie. Interview Filosoof Jan De Vos door Kathleen Vereecken, eerst verschenen in De Standaard, 19/11/2011
Het leven is meer dan een reeks leermodules. Drie vragen aan Jan De Vos, in Psychologies, Oktober 2011
Interview op Radio Klara in het programma Trio 24/09/2011
Opiniestuk "We weten hoe langer hoe minder wat een mens is", De Morgen 11/10/2007
Bijdrage in artikel “That’s psychotainment!” Door Lieve Van de Velde, De Standaard: 27-10-2015.
Iedereen naar de psycholoog!(?) Interview in Peeters en Pichal, Radio 1 (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
Kijk dit ben jij - Interview in Filosofie Magazine (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
God is een psycholoog - Interview in P-Magazine (27/03/2012) door Wim Swinnen
Bijdrage in artikel "Zelfkennis : Hoe riskant is doe-het-zelfpsychologie?" in Psychologies Magazine, maart 2012
Bijdrage in artikel "Mag ik het niet gewoon verdringen" in De Muze, bijlage van De Morgen, 28/01/2012
Psychologisering is volksverlakkerij. Interview door Marnix Verplancke, eerst verschenen in De Morgen, 04/01/2012
De pretentie van de psychologie. Interview Filosoof Jan De Vos door Kathleen Vereecken, eerst verschenen in De Standaard, 19/11/2011
Het leven is meer dan een reeks leermodules. Drie vragen aan Jan De Vos, in Psychologies, Oktober 2011
Interview op Radio Klara in het programma Trio 24/09/2011
Opiniestuk "We weten hoe langer hoe minder wat een mens is", De Morgen 11/10/2007