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Open-Access Book: Creativity: Process and Personality

AHP readers may be interested in a new open-access book Creativity: Process and Personality by Larry Gross. The book was originally Gross’s undergraduate thesis at Brandeis, where he worked with Abraham Maslow, and includes autobiographical interviews...

Published Mon, Mar 13 2023 3:15 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States

A new book from Columbia University Press may interest AHP readers: The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States by Matthew Smith. Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention...

Published Sat, Mar 11 2023 7:08 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Remedies for the housewife’s nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson’s popular self-help texts, 1920–1930

A new open-access piece in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences will interest AHP readers: “Remedies for the housewife’s nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson’s popular self-help texts, 1920–1930,” by Matthew...

Published Sat, Mar 11 2023 7:00 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Online Event, Mar. 8: Princess Marie Bonaparte: Friendship, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism

An online, pay-what-you-can event hosted by the Freud Museum will interest AHP readers. The event, “Princess Marie Bonaparte: Friendship, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism,” is described as follows: Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962), the great...

Published Sun, Mar 05 2023 6:46 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Charlotte Bühler and her emigration to the United States: A clarifying note regarding the loss of a professorship at Fordham University

AHP readers will be interested in a new piece in History of Psychology: “Charlotte Bühler and her emigration to the United States: A clarifying note regarding the loss of a professorship at Fordham University,” by Schneider, W., & Stock...

Published Sun, Mar 05 2023 6:40 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in History of Psychiatry: “‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum,” by Caroline Dahlquist and Peter Kinderman. Abstract: In the nineteenth century, photography...

Published Sun, Mar 05 2023 6:37 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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‘Malaria Has Spoilt It’: Malaria, Neuropsychiatric Complications, and Insanity in ex-Servicemen in Post-First World War Britain

AHP readers may be interested in a new open-access piece in Social History of Medicine: “‘Malaria Has Spoilt It’: Malaria, Neuropsychiatric Complications, and Insanity in ex-Servicemen in Post-First World War Britain,” Justin Fantauzzo. Abstract...

Published Sun, Feb 26 2023 5:08 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Sounding the Archival Silence: Searching for Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Asylum

A new open-access piece in Social History of Medicine may interest AHP readers: “Sounding the Archival Silence: Searching for Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Asylum,” Rosemary Golding. Abstract: The music of the nineteenth-century...

Published Sun, Feb 26 2023 5:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The New Yorker: Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It

A piece in the New Yorker that explores the history of imposter syndrome may interest AHP readers: “Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It,” by Leslie Jamison. As Jamison writes: At first, the paper kept getting rejected. “Weirdly, we didn...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2023 5:44 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton, Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: “Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton, Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine,” by Sebastian C. Galbo...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2023 5:34 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology

A new piece in Isis may interest AHP readers: “Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology,” by Iris Clever. Abstract: This essay introduces an anthropological practice that remains...

Published Thu, Feb 23 2023 5:30 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in History of the Human Sciences: “Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s),” Florent...

Published Sun, Feb 19 2023 6:33 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I

A new piece in History of Psychiatry may interest AHP readers: “Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I,” by Margaret White. Abstract: Mortality in asylum populations increased during World War...

Published Sun, Feb 19 2023 6:30 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context

A new open-access piece in History of the Human Sciences will interest AHP readers: “Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context,” Lianne Bakkum...

Published Thu, Feb 09 2023 7:31 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Reflections upon having been elected a fellow of APA

A new piece, now available online at History of Psychology, will interest AHP readers: “Reflections upon having been elected a fellow of APA,” Burman, J. T. Abstract: In this article, the author offers his reflections on being elected Fellow...

Published Sat, Feb 04 2023 6:08 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Open-Access Book: Creativity: Process and Personality

The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States

Remedies for the housewife’s nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson’s popular self-help texts, 1920–1930

Online Event, Mar. 8: Princess Marie Bonaparte: Friendship, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism

Charlotte Bühler and her emigration to the United States: A clarifying note regarding the loss of a professorship at Fordham University

‘Picture imperfect’: the motives and uses of patient photography in the asylum

‘Malaria Has Spoilt It’: Malaria, Neuropsychiatric Complications, and Insanity in ex-Servicemen in Post-First World War Britain

Sounding the Archival Silence: Searching for Music in the Nineteenth-Century English Asylum

The New Yorker: Why Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It

Illustrating insanity: Allan McLane Hamilton, Types of Insanity, and physiognomy in late nineteenth-century American medicine

Biometry against Fascism: Geoffrey Morant, Race, and Anti-Racism in Twentieth-Century Physical Anthropology

Psychoanalytic practice in the light of psychiatric patient records: The elusive history of Freudian-inspired psychotherapy (Strasbourg, 1940s–1970s)

Mortality among those certified under lunacy legislation in Scotland during World War I

Trauma and loss in the Adult Attachment Interview: Situating the unresolved state of mind classification in disciplinary and social context

Reflections upon having been elected a fellow of APA