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Between Shell Shock and PTSD? ‘Accident Neurosis’ and Its Sequelae in Post-War Britain

The August issue of Social History of Medicine includes a piece that may interest AHP readers: “Between Shell Shock and PTSD? ‘Accident Neurosis’ and Its Sequelae in Post-War Britain,” by Ryan Ross. Abstract: This article focuses on the concept...

Published Fri, Aug 02 2019 4:54 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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New History of the Human Sciences: Child Experts in the Swedish Press, Historiography of Brain and Mind Sciences

The July 2019 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. A number of articles in this issue may interest AHP readers, particularly Peter Skagius’s piece on the presence of child psychology and psychiatry experts in Swedish newspapers...

Published Thu, Aug 01 2019 12:15 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness

AHP readers may be interested in a new book, How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness, written by neurologist Allan H. Ropper and mathematician Brian David Burrell. As the publisher describes: How the Brain Lost Its...

Published Thu, Aug 01 2019 11:44 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Eysenck Controversy Continues

A recent review article and accompanying editorial in the Journal of Health Psychology, and a subsequent editorial in the British Medical Journal, may interest AHP readers. The pieces address Hans Eysenck and his colleague Ronald Grossarth-Maticek’s...

Published Wed, Jul 31 2019 2:49 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

AHP readers may be interested in a new book on the history of cultural anthropology focused on Franz Boas and his women students. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century...

Published Wed, Jul 31 2019 2:23 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Ninth Annual History of Psychology Centre Stories of Psychology Day 7 November 2019

On November 7th, 2019 the BPS History of Psychology Centre (HoPC) and the BPS History and Philosophy of Psychology Section are hosting the 9th Annual Stories of Psychology Day. Registration is required for the event. Full details below. Ninth Annual History...

Published Tue, Jul 30 2019 1:52 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue: Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives

A special issue of History of Psychology on the topic of “Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives” is now online. Full details below. “Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives...

Published Tue, Jul 30 2019 12:55 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Summer 2019 Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

The summer 2019 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Full details follow below. “The professionalization of psychologists as court personnel: Consequences of the first institutional commitment law for the...

Published Fri, Jul 19 2019 3:32 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Reasonable men: Sexual harassment and norms of conduct in social psychology

Yours truly has a new piece (with Peter Hegarty) out in Feminism & Psychology on the history of sexual harassment in psychology. I hope you read it. It was an interesting journey to get it out into the world. (You can read more about that here.) Details...

Published Mon, Jul 08 2019 8:52 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics”

AHP readers may be interested in Marilyn Fischer’s recently published Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics.” The book is described as follows: In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer...

Published Fri, Jul 05 2019 7:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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New Osiris: Presenting Futures Past

AHP readers may be interested in the most recent volume of Osiris edited by Amanda Rees and Iwan Rhys Morus and dedicated to “Presenting Futures Past.” Two contributions to the collection may be particularly relevant to readers: “Thought...

Published Fri, Jul 05 2019 5:31 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person

AHP readers interested in data and constructions of personhood will be interested philosopher Colin Koopman’s just-published book How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. The book is described as follows: We are now acutely...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2019 2:45 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences that explores the history of gerontology and senescence. “Anticipatory...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2019 2:28 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s

A new (open access!) piece in the journal Medical Humanities will interest AHP readers. In “Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s” Lucas Richert and Erika Dyck describe the history of American research with LSD...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2019 2:04 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health

The July 2019 issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values may interest AHP readers. The special issue is dedicated to “The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health.” Full details below. “The...

Published Mon, Jun 10 2019 5:33 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Between Shell Shock and PTSD? ‘Accident Neurosis’ and Its Sequelae in Post-War Britain

New History of the Human Sciences: Child Experts in the Swedish Press, Historiography of Brain and Mind Sciences

How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness

Eysenck Controversy Continues

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

Ninth Annual History of Psychology Centre Stories of Psychology Day 7 November 2019

Special Issue: Psychology and psychiatry in the global world: Historical perspectives

Summer 2019 Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Reasonable men: Sexual harassment and norms of conduct in social psychology

Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics”

New Osiris: Presenting Futures Past

How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person

Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence

Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s

Special Issue: The Death of the Clinic? Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health