September 2013 - Advances in the History of Psychology

New AHP Series: Inside the Digital History of Psychology

Starting tomorrow, Advances in the History of Psychology will begin running a special series of posts related to work on the digital history of psychology. As you may be aware, the blog is based out the History and Theory of psychology program at York...

Published Mon, Sep 30 2013 8:50 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, digital history, psyborgs

Call for Nominations: History of Psychology Journal Editor

History of Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, has issued a call for nominations for journal editor. David Dunning, PhD has been appointed chair of the search. The nomination deadline is January 11, 2014 and the candidates...

Published Mon, Sep 23 2013 9:41 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Other, News, History of Psychology, Jobs, editorship, call for nominations

Toronto Talk, Oct. 9th: Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, HM

For anyone in the Toronto area, an upcoming talk at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) may be of interest. On October 9th, at 6pm, Dr. Suzanne Corkin will be speaking on her recent book, Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient...

Published Fri, Sep 20 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, brain, memory, Royal Ontario Museum, H.M., Suzanne Corkin, amnesia

Rat Park, A Comic on (the History of) the Psychology of Addiction

A new comic by Stuart McMillen graphically illustrates the history of psychological research into the role of the social environment on drug use. In Rat Park, the second of two comics McMillen has created on illegal drugs, he describes the work of psychologist...

Published Thu, Sep 19 2013 2:22 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, drugs, Books, Links, comic, addiction, rat, Carl Hart, Bruce Alexander, drug use, rat park, environment, Stuart McMillen

Another Look at the History of the Unconscious: Sites of the Unconscious

Historian of the human sciences Andreas Mayer, a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, has just published a new volume on the history of the unconscious. Mayer’s book, Sites of the Unconscious: Hypnosis and the...

Published Mon, Sep 16 2013 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, psychoanalysis, hypnosis, unconscious, Andreas Mayer

New Image Database Online: Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives

Over the course of the summer months, the Weill-Cornell Medical Center Archives in New York have been uploading images from their collection into two new online databases: one for internal users and one that is open to the public. The public database...

Published Wed, Sep 11 2013 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, asylum, Links, medicine, archives, Online Database

One More Summer Roadtrip: Wood County Lunatic House

This is a special post co-authored by Jennifer Bazar, Elissa Rodkey, and Jacy Young and published simultaneously at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. Yes, we do listen to your suggestions! Earlier this summer,...

Published Tue, Sep 10 2013 10:55 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: asylum, psychiatry, insanity, madness, medicine, graveyard, Historical Tourism, Wood County

History of Psychology and Science Communication

This is a special joint post, authored by Jacy Young, Filipe Degani and Rodrigo Miranda, and published simultaneously on both AHP and RIPeHP (Blog da Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em História da Psicologia). It is undeniable that scientific communication...

Published Thu, Sep 05 2013 4:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Center for the History of Psychology, Mind Hacks, Society for the History of Psychology, Psychology's Feminist Voices, information technologies, Ed Yong, science communication, Carl Zimmer, Paul Krugman

Call for Papers: HoP in Universitas Psychologica

The journal Universitas Psychologica has issued a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to the history of psychology to be published in 2014. Articles in English and Spanish of not more than 20 pages in length are to be submitted by November 15th...

Published Wed, Sep 04 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, special issue, call for papers, Universitas Psychologica

Quit Clowning Around!

Smithsonian.com has issued an article titled “The History of Clowns Being Scary” that might be of interest to some of our readers. “Clowns, as pranksters, jesters, jokers, harlequins, and mythologized tricksters have been around for ages. They appear...

Published Tue, Sep 03 2013 7:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Coulrophobia