June 2015 - Advances in the History of Psychology

New Issue of HoP Fresh off the Press!

The May 2015 issue of History of Psychology (vol 18, issue 2) is now available (find online here), and is chock-full of interesting content. From analyses exploring the materiality of psychological and psychiatric instruments (including the Cattell Infant...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2015 11:10 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, HoP, Italian psychology, Walter Freeman, History of Psychology, Jean Piaget, digital history, CBT, Brazilian Psychology, Psychological Review, Crisis in Psychology, Argentinian Psychology, Florence Goodenough, Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Utica Crib

New Isis: Psychopathy in Germany & Helmholtz’s Musicology!

The June 2015 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is now online. Included in the issue are two articles of special interest to AHP readers: Greg Eghigian (right) documents the history of psychopathy in Germany, while...

Published Thu, Jun 25 2015 8:27 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Isis, music, Greg Eghigian, Germany, Helmholtz, psychopathy, musicology

Resource: Online Guide to Medical Humanities Dissertations

Margaret DeLacy over at the H-Scholar network has linked to a resource that could be of interest to our readership: a large collection of ProQuest info for dissertations from subject areas within the umbrella of the ‘medical humanities’ that...

Published Wed, Jun 24 2015 7:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Resources, psychiatry, Links, medicine, historiography, Research, medical humanities, dissertations

Cheiron Workshop: “Archives, Repositories, Websites, Blogs, Exhibits, Oh My! Digitization Considerations and Conceptualizations”

The 47th Annual Meeting of Cheiron, the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, just wrapped up at the University of Kansas. On the final day of the meeting we presented the workshop “Archives, Repositories, Websites...

Published Sat, Jun 20 2015 8:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Conferences, Cheiron, digital history, digital humanities, Psychology's Feminist Voices, digital exhibit, workshop, Remembering Oak Ridge

The New Yorker: “The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment”

The New Yorker has just posted an article on “The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment.” A new feature film The Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Billy Crudup as psychologist Philip Zimbardo, provides the impetus for the piece...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2015 8:12 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, Links, Stanford prison experiment, Philip Zimbardo, feature film, The New Yorker

2-Day Workshop: “Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy-Professions”

The Hidden Persuaders Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image at Birkbeck College, University of London is holding a 2-day workshop July 3 & 4, 2015. The workshop, “Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy-Professions,” is...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2015 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, brainwashing, workshop, cinema, psy-professions, persuasion

July 18th Workshop, Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping The Psychoanalytic Movement

UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines is hosting a one-day workshop on how to write the history of the psychoanalytic movement. The workshop, which marks the publication of Ernst Falzeder’s book, ‘Psychoanalytic Filiations...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2015 8:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Freud, Conferences, UCL, psychoanalysis, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Carl Jung, Sandor Ferenczi, workshop, Otto Rank

Contribute to The Psychologist’s “Looking Back” Column!

The British Psychological Society’s magazine, The Psychologist, is looking for brief contributions for its regular history column “Looking Back.” Previous articles from the column are largely open access and can be read online here....

Published Mon, Jun 15 2015 7:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, BPS, The Psychologist, Looking Back

Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning Optioned as a Film

Psychologist Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, in which he attempts to make sense of the Holocaust, has been optioned as a film. The Guardian reports, Frankl, a contemporary of Freud, lost his whole family during the Nazi’s attempted...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2015 1:46 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Holocaust, Viktor Frankl, feature film, logotherapy, meaning

Seminar: History of the Psychological Disciplines Series

The next session of the British Psychological Society & UCL’s History of Psychology Centre‘s conjunct History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminars takes place on June 16, 6:00 pm at the Arts and Humanities Common Room (G24), Foster...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, trauma, Associations, Seminars, seminar

Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ Children Banned in Groundbreaking Ontario Legislation

Ontario has become the first Canadian province to legislate a bill that renders such so-called therapies for children illegal, and prevents medical practitioners of adult treatments from billing the provincial health care system. The Toronto Star reports...

Published Mon, Jun 08 2015 6:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, medicine, science media, legislation, LGBTQA, psychology and law

Community Announcement: Cummings Center for the History of Psychology Expansion

The Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron, which houses the Archives of the History of American Psychology, a Museum of Psychology and hosts public education and outreach programs, will be closing to all researchers from September...

Published Sun, Jun 07 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, Resources, museum, Center for the History of Psychology, Historical Tourism, Research, Archives of the History of American Psychology

Remembering Oak Ridge: A Digital Exhibit

AHP‘s very own contributor Jennifer Bazar has curated a fascinating online historical archive and exhibit on the Oak Ridge forensic mental health division of the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene, Ontario. Find the exhibit...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2015 9:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, drugs, Resources, asylum, psychiatry, madness, medicine, historiography, digital history, Historical Tourism, Research, institutions, digital exhibit, Ontario, criminal justice, Waypoint Centre, forensics

A Recent Resurgence of “Excited Delirium”?

The Washington Post recently featured a piece on the resurgence of “excited delirium” as cause of death for a number of individuals held in police custody. Amnesty International estimates that as many as 75 of more than 300 deaths in police...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2015 9:06 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, excited delirium, taser, Washington Post, police

New Issue History of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia Symptoms, British Colonial Asylums, & More

The June 2015 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. The issue includes articles on the symptoms of schizophrenia, British colonial lunatic asylums, and “senile dementia” in the decades before 1979. Also in the issue is a classic text...

Published Wed, Jun 03 2015 8:26 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, schizophrenia, symptoms, asylums, Portugal, colonialism, senile dementia, British colonial psychiatry, Hans W. Gruhle, social psychiatry, World Health Organization