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Anthony Enns on Apocryphal Psychotechnologies

A recent piece, “Apocryphal Psychotechnologies,” published in Continent may interest AHP readers. Contintent is “a platform for thinking through media. text, image, video, sound and new forms of publishing online are presented as reflections...

Published Tue, Jan 21 2020 11:18 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Magazine

New JHBS: mid-20th c. popularization of psychoanalysis, influence of psychoanalysis on Religion and Human Evolution, and more

The Winter 2020 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. The issue includes a number of book reviews, as well as the following articles: “Franz Joseph Gall’s non?cortical faculties and their organs,”...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2020 3:25 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals

Facets of an Academic’s Life: A Memoir

A new memoir from psychologist Michael Wertheimer will be of interest to AHP readers. The autobiography, Facets of an Academic’s Life: A Memoir, is available now from Springer and is described as follows: This is the life story of the oldest living member...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2020 2:55 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books

Guidelines for Authors: Publishing Historical Scholarship in American Psychologist

AHP readers interested in getting their historical work to a broad audience will be interested in the new guidelines for authors interested in publishing historical scholarship in the American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological...

Published Fri, Jan 17 2020 2:40 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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“A dangerous method? Psychedelic therapy at Modum Bad, Norway, 1961–76”

AHP readers following the literature on the history of psychedelic treatments will be interested in a new piece in press, and now online, at History of Psychiatry: “A dangerous method? Psychedelic therapy at Modum Bad, Norway, 1961–76,” by...

Published Tue, Jan 14 2020 9:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Attachment and the archive: Barriers and facilitators to the use of historical sociology as complementary developmental science

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece published in Science in Context: “Attachment and the archive: barriers and facilitators to the use of historical sociology as complementary developmental science,” by Robbie Duschinsky. Argument...

Published Fri, Jan 10 2020 5:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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NYT: “Overlooked No More: Margaret McFarland, Mentor to Mister Rogers”

The New York Times‘ Overlooked series, which provides obituaries for individuals whose deaths were initially overlooked by the newspaper, has recently turned attention to psychologist Margaret McFarland. McFarland, a consultant to the classic children’s...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2020 9:36 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News

Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Psychology in Sevilla

The Spanish Society for the History of Psychology is happy to announce its XXXIII Symposium, to be held in Sevilla from April 15 to April 17, 2020. The Symposium will be hosted by the Department of Experimental Psychology at the Universidad de Sevilla...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2020 9:23 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences

Winter Issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología

AHP readers will be interested to know that the Winter Issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología is now online. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below: “Comparative Psychology and the Objectification of Mind: Thorndike’s Cats in the...

Published Thu, Jan 09 2020 5:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The uses of trauma in experiment: Traumatic stress and the history of experimental neurosis, c. 1925–1975

A recent piece in the September 2019 issue of Science in Context will be of interest to AHP readers. Ulrich Koch explores “The uses of trauma in experiment: Traumatic stress and the history of experimental neurosis, c. 1925–1975.” Abstract...

Published Wed, Jan 08 2020 1:18 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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December 2019 issue of History of Psychiatry

The December 2019 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Titles, authors, and abstracts follow below: “Women neuropsychiatrists on Wagner-Jauregg’s staff in Vienna at the time of the Nobel award: ordeal and fortitude,” Lazaros C Triarhou...

Published Fri, Jan 03 2020 7:29 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Psychiatry and Its Discontents

A new book from Andrew Scull may interest AHP readers. Psychiatry and Its Discontents is described by the publisher: Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and...

Published Fri, Jan 03 2020 5:13 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum

A new open-access edited volume may interest AHP readers. Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum is described as follows: This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry...

Published Thu, Jan 02 2020 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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William Frédéric Edwards and the study of human races in France, from the Restoration to the July Monarchy

A forthcoming article in History of Science will be of interest to AHP readers: “William Frédéric Edwards and the study of human races in France, from the Restoration to the July Monarchy” by Ian B. Stewart. Abstract: Scholars of the nineteenth...

Published Thu, Jan 02 2020 8:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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December 2019 issue of History of the Human Sciences

The December 2019 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below. “Behind the Rhodes statue: Black competency and the imperial academy,” by Robbie Shilliam. Abstract: Recent criticisms...

Published Thu, Jan 02 2020 6:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Anthony Enns on Apocryphal Psychotechnologies

New JHBS: mid-20th c. popularization of psychoanalysis, influence of psychoanalysis on Religion and Human Evolution, and more

Facets of an Academic’s Life: A Memoir

Guidelines for Authors: Publishing Historical Scholarship in American Psychologist

“A dangerous method? Psychedelic therapy at Modum Bad, Norway, 1961–76”

Attachment and the archive: Barriers and facilitators to the use of historical sociology as complementary developmental science

NYT: “Overlooked No More: Margaret McFarland, Mentor to Mister Rogers”

Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Psychology in Sevilla

Winter Issue of Revista de Historia de la Psicología

The uses of trauma in experiment: Traumatic stress and the history of experimental neurosis, c. 1925–1975

December 2019 issue of History of Psychiatry

Psychiatry and Its Discontents

Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the Asylum

William Frédéric Edwards and the study of human races in France, from the Restoration to the July Monarchy

December 2019 issue of History of the Human Sciences