February 2016 - Advances in the History of Psychology

JHBS early view: Neurasthenia and Patient-Psychiatrist Interactions in Pre-war America

The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences has published an article online-first by Susan Lamb. It’s titled ‘My resisting getting well: Neurasthenia and subconscious conflict in patient-psychiatrist interactions in prewar America...

Published Mon, Feb 29 2016 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, neurasthenia; Adolf Meyer; Psychiatry; Johns Hopkins; JHBS

New Books Network Interview Round Up

The New Books Network has posted a fresh batch of interviews, quite a few of which may be interesting to our readership: Historian Erik Linstrum (out of the University of Virginia) speaks on Ruling minds: Psychology in the British Empire. The interview...

Published Wed, Feb 24 2016 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Language, Podcasts, modern mind history, biology of schizophrenia, new books, British empire, brain and computation

UCL/BPS Talks Feb 29 & Mar 7: Science of Religion & Freud’s Analysis of Haizmann

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the next two talks in their 2016 seminar series. Full details follow below....

Published Tue, Feb 23 2016 5:47 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, Freud, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, religion, demonic possession

New Article: The Franz–Kalischer Priority Dispute

In the March 2016 issue of The Psychological Record includes an article by Roger K. Thomas exploring the priority dispute between Shepherd Ivory Franz and Otto Kalischer over who first combined animal training with brain extirpation. Full details follow...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2016 6:09 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, brain, animals, Otto Kalischer, Shepherd Ivory Franz, neuropsychology

April 2016: “The Future of the History of the Human Sciences”

To mark the end of James Good‘s time as editor of History of the Human Sciences a special two-day meeting on “The Future of the History of the Human Sciences” is planned for April 7th and 8th, 2016. The meeting, hosted jointly by Chris...

Published Wed, Feb 10 2016 6:24 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, Chris Renwick, history of the human sciences, James Goodwin

New HoP: Evil, Attachment, and Trends in Psychiatry

The February 2016 issue of History of Psychology is now online. The issue includes an opening editorial note from incoming editor Nadine Weidman on her plans for the journal. Articles in the issue explore studies of evil by Ernest Becker and Stanley Milgram...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2016 6:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, psychiatry, History of Psychology, Milgram, attachment, Foucault, evil, Mary Ainsworth, Italy, psyborgs, John Bowlby, Ernest Becker, William Blatz

APA Time Capsule on the Bühlers

Adrian Brock‘s new piece in the February 2016 edition of the Monitor on Psychology looks at the differing professional experiences of Karl and Charlotte Bühler. He emphasizes how comparison of their respective careers provide examples of the ways...

Published Mon, Feb 08 2016 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Gestalt, Humanistic Psych, Karl Bühler, developmental, Charlotte Bühler

New Article: Revisiting Introspection in William James’ Early Work

The February 2016 issue of Theory & Psychology includes an article that may be of especial interest to AHP readers. Saulo de Freitas Araujo and Rayssa Maluf de Souza explore William James’ views on introspection as a method in their article...

Published Sun, Feb 07 2016 6:46 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, William James, Theory & Psychology, Saulo de Freitas Araujo, introspection

UCL/BPS Talk Feb 15: “‘The apostolic function’: Michael Balint and the postwar GP”

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the another talk in their 2016 seminar series. On Monday February 15th Shaul...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2016 6:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, psychoanalysis, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Michael Balint, family doctors, Balint movement, Tavistock Clinic

New Book: A History of ‘Relevance’ in Psychology

Another new book is available out of the Palgrave Macmillan stable: A History of Relevance in Psychology. Written by Wahbie Long at the University of Cape Town, is described by the publishers as follows: This book represents the first attempt to historicise...

Published Thu, Feb 04 2016 6:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, disciplinary history, relevance, South African Psychology

New Book: A Critical History of Schizophrenia

A new book on the history of schizophrenia is now available from Palgrave MacMillian. Kieran McNally‘s A Critical History of Schizophrenia is described as follows, Schizophrenia was 20th century psychiatry’s arch concept of madness. Yet for...

Published Wed, Feb 03 2016 6:13 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, schizophrenia, Kieran McNally, critical history

History of psychology in Nautilus

The popular publication on science, Nautilus, offers two recent features relevant to our readership. The first is an adroit biographical and theoretical sketch of distinctive psychologist and historian of psychology Julian Jaynes. In addition to a survey...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2016 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Julian Jaynes, Research, consciousness, gender research, spatial skills