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November HoP: Intellectual Communities, Rorschach in Girls Reform School, and More

The November issue of History of Psychology is now online. Full details below. “Family, friends, and faith-communities: Intellectual community and the benefits of unofficial networks for marginalized scientists.” Rodkey, Krista L.; Rodkey...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2020 11:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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‘Psychosis of civilization’: A colonial-situated diagnosis

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in History of Psychiatry, “‘Psychosis of civilization’: a colonial-situated diagnosis,” by Marianna Scarfone. Abstract: In the late 1930s, when colonial psychiatry was well established in the Maghreb...

Published Fri, Nov 20 2020 11:37 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Ideology and science: The story of Polish psychology in the communist period

AHP readers will be interested in a new article in History of the Human Sciences, “Ideology and science: The story of Polish psychology in the communist period” by Leszek Koczanowicz and Iwona Koczanowicz-Dehnel. Abstract: This article presents...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2020 10:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Doing history that matters: Going public and activating voices as a form of historical activism

AHP readers will be interested in an article forthcoming in a special issue of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences dedicated to public history and now available online, “Doing history that matters: Going public and activating voices...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2020 10:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The relational mind: In between history, psychology and anthropology

AHP readers may be interested in a forthcoming piece from History of Psychology, “The relational mind: In between history, psychology and anthropology” by Y. Rotman. Abstract: The article examines the new psychological language that developed...

Published Fri, Nov 13 2020 12:04 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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‘The voice of the stomach’: the mind, hypochondriasis and theories of dyspepsia in the nineteenth century

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in History of Psychiatry, “‘The voice of the stomach’: the mind, hypochondriasis and theories of dyspepsia in the nineteenth century” by E Allen Driggers. Abstract: Physicians and surgeons during...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2020 12:29 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health and Medicine

AHP readers or their students may be interested in the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine‘s Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health and Medicine. Details below. The CSHM...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2020 5:30 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The bad expert

A new article in Social Studies of Science will be of interest to AHP readers: “The bad expert” by Paige L Sweet and Danielle Giffort. Abstract: We focus on two cases in which participants narrate and perform a new culture of expertise by...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2020 12:00 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

AHP readers may be interested in a just-released book, Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day by Simon Jarrett. The book is described as follows, Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2020 11:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Influence of ‘Psychiatrist Friends’ on British Film Censorship in the 1960s

AHP readers may be interested in a recent article in the open access Journal of British Cinema and Television: “The Influence of ‘Psychiatrist Friends’ on British Film Censorship in the 1960s” by Tim Snelson and William R. Macauley. Abstract...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2020 11:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers

AHP readers may be interested in a forthcoming article in History of Psychiatry, “How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers” by Fritz Handerer,...

Published Thu, Nov 05 2020 9:26 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

AHP readers may be interested in a new book, Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics by Douglas C. Baynton. The book is described as follows: Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2020 9:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Hannah Zeavin’s The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police

AHP readers may be interested in a new post on Somatosphere by Hannah Zeavin, “The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police.” Zeavin writes: Across the 20th century and into our present, new modes of relating at a distance...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2020 11:14 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

AHP readers may be interested in a forthcoming book, Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by stef m. shuster. The book is described as follows, Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2020 9:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Double Issue of HHS: Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester

A special double issue of History of the Human Sciences exploring the influence of John Forrester’s work on thinking in cases is now available. Full details below. “Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester,” Chris...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2020 9:46 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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November HoP: Intellectual Communities, Rorschach in Girls Reform School, and More

‘Psychosis of civilization’: A colonial-situated diagnosis

Ideology and science: The story of Polish psychology in the communist period

Doing history that matters: Going public and activating voices as a form of historical activism

The relational mind: In between history, psychology and anthropology

‘The voice of the stomach’: the mind, hypochondriasis and theories of dyspepsia in the nineteenth century

Georgina Feldberg Memorial Student Award in the History of Health and Medicine

The bad expert

Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day

The Influence of ‘Psychiatrist Friends’ on British Film Censorship in the 1960s

How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers

Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

Hannah Zeavin’s The Third Choice: Suicide Hotlines, Psychiatry, and the Police

Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

Special Double Issue of HHS: Thinking in, with, across, and beyond cases with John Forrester