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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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Dana Simmons on “Hungry, Thinking with Animals: Psychology and Violence at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

The 2020 volume of Osiris edited by W. Patrick McCray and Suman Seth and dedicated to “Food Matters” is now available. Among the contributions to this volume is one that will particularly appeal to AHP readers: “Hungry, Thinking with...

Published Wed, Aug 26 2020 8:52 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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New in CBMH: Diagnostic Politics of Autism, Eugenic Discourses in French Canada

AHP readers may be interested in a couple of articles now in press at Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine. Full details below. “Incertitude diagnostique et action politique : une association de...

Published Sun, Aug 23 2020 9:18 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Commentary: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?

A new commentary now in press at Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience may be of interest to AHP readers: “Commentary: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?” by Jeremy Trevelyan Burman and Brianne M. Collins. Burman and Collins write, We want...

Published Sat, Aug 15 2020 2:14 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Nadine Weidman in Psyche: Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?

A recent article in Psyche by Nadine Weidman may interest AHP readers: “Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?” Weidman writes, In the 1960s, alongside prevailing psychological and neuroscientific theories of...

Published Thu, Aug 13 2020 6:28 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

AHP readers may be interested in a new book, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum by Mab Segrest. The book is described as follows, “The situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2020 5:32 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Call for Papers: Psychology from the Margins

AHP readers may find a call for papers from Psychology from the Margins of interest. Please note this call is for contributions from students. Details below. Call for Papers: Psychology from the Margins Exploring untold stories of social justice and traditionally...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2020 5:28 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Beyond the asylum and before the ‘care in the community’ model: exploring an overlooked early NHS mental health facility

AHP readers may be interested in a piece now in press at History of Psychiatry: “Beyond the asylum and before the ‘care in the community’ model: exploring an overlooked early NHS mental health facility” by Christina Malathouni. Abstract: This...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2020 9:48 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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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

Dana Simmons on “Hungry, Thinking with Animals: Psychology and Violence at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

New in CBMH: Diagnostic Politics of Autism, Eugenic Discourses in French Canada

Commentary: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?

Nadine Weidman in Psyche: Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy?

Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

Call for Papers: Psychology from the Margins

Beyond the asylum and before the ‘care in the community’ model: exploring an overlooked early NHS mental health facility