September 2020 - Advances in the History of Psychology

Forthcoming in HHS: Hormones, Cognitive Enhancement, Handedness, ‘Normal’

Several pieces forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences may be of interest to AHP readers. Full details below. “‘The Revolution is to the human mind what the African sun is to vegetation’: Revolution, heat, and the normal school project,”...

Published Mon, Sep 21 2020 5:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Tour Wilhelm Wundt’s House Now!

An update to our post from last year about efforts to save Wilhelm Wundt’s house near Leipzig: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Wundt’s death in August a virtual 360° Tour of the house was produced, as well as a short film of the...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:59 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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New Isis: The Unmusical Ear, Normal Child Development on Film

The September 2020 issue of Isis includes two articles of interest to AHP readers. Full details below. “The Unmusical Ear: Georg Simon Ohm and the Mathematical Analysis of Sound,” Melle Jan Kromhout. Abstract: This essay presents a detailed...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:33 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Book Forum: Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, by Cathy Gere

AHP readers may be interested in a Book Forum, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, dedicated to Cathy Gere’s recent Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good...

Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 4:14 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Psychologist: “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé”

AHP readers may be interested in a piece in the September 2020 issue of the British Psychological Society’s The Psychologist magazine, “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé” by Rabbi David Ariel Sher. As Sher writes, Perhaps the...

Published Thu, Sep 17 2020 9:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

AHP readers may be interested in a soon-to-be-released book, Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. The book is described as follows: Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2020 9:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming in History of Human Sciences: The Psychosocial Dreamer, French Structural Anthropology

Two articles forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences, now available online, may interest AHP readers. “A ‘commonsense’ psychoanalysis: Listening to the psychosocial dreamer in interwar Glasgow psychiatry,” Sarah Phelan. Abstract: This...

Published Fri, Sep 11 2020 3:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality

AHP readers may be interested in a new book, Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality, edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra ***. The volume is described as, Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality argues that the modern cultural...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2020 4:45 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Kira Lussier on “What the history of diversity training reveals about its future”

AHP readers will be interested in a new piece in The Conversation from Kira Lussier on “What the history of diversity training reveals about its future.” As Lussier writes, Some of the earliest forms of corporate training were mandated in...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2020 4:38 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913

AHP readers will be interested in a new open-access piece now available African Journal of Disability: “The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913,” by Rory du Plessis...

Published Mon, Sep 07 2020 5:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming History of the Human Sciences: Thinking in Cases, Landscapes and Human Geography

AHP readers will be interested in several pieces forthcoming in History of the Human Sciences that are now available online. Full details below. “Boundaries of reasoning in cases: The visual psychoanalysis of René Spitz,” Rachel Weitzenkorn...

Published Sun, Sep 06 2020 6:02 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Joint Meeting of Clio-Psyché and the Brazilian Congress of History of Psychology, Nov 5-6, 2020

A joint meeting of Clio-Psyché and the Brazilian Congress of History of Psychology will take place virtually November 5-6, 2020. Details below. In 2020, the virus stopped time. Or at least the usual way we experience temporality and sociability. In these...

Published Sun, Sep 06 2020 3:41 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Jaipreet Virdi’s Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

AHP readers may be interested in Jaipreet Virdi’s recently released book, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Part memoir and part history of deafness, Hearing Happiness is described as follows: At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world...

Published Sat, Sep 05 2020 4:17 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Eamon O’Sullivan: 20th-century Irish psychiatrist and occupational therapy patron

A forthcoming article in History of Psychiatry, now available online, may interest AHP readers: “Eamon O’Sullivan: 20th-century Irish psychiatrist and occupational therapy patron,” by Judith Pettigrew, Aisling Shalvey, Bríd Dunne, and Katie...

Published Sat, Sep 05 2020 3:52 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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25 Sept 2020, Online Colloque Psy-ences/Psy-ences Conference

AHP readers may be interested in the 4th Colloque Psy-ences/Psy-ences Conference. The topic for 2020 is “Tooling the Mind,” with talks talking place in either French or English. The conference will be held online, Friday 25th, September 2020, from 9.00...

Published Sat, Sep 05 2020 3:33 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Forthcoming in HHS: Hormones, Cognitive Enhancement, Handedness, ‘Normal’

Tour Wilhelm Wundt’s House Now!

New Isis: The Unmusical Ear, Normal Child Development on Film

Book Forum: Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good, by Cathy Gere

The Psychologist: “The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé”

Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age

Forthcoming in History of Human Sciences: The Psychosocial Dreamer, French Structural Anthropology

Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality

Kira Lussier on “What the history of diversity training reveals about its future”

The life stories and experiences of the children admitted to the Institute for Imbecile Children from 1895 to 1913

Forthcoming History of the Human Sciences: Thinking in Cases, Landscapes and Human Geography

Joint Meeting of Clio-Psyché and the Brazilian Congress of History of Psychology, Nov 5-6, 2020

Jaipreet Virdi’s Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History

Eamon O’Sullivan: 20th-century Irish psychiatrist and occupational therapy patron

25 Sept 2020, Online Colloque Psy-ences/Psy-ences Conference