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Egos and experiments -Andrew Scull on the travails of social psychology

In a recent piece in the Times Literary Supplement historian Andrew Scull reviews two recent pieces on the history of psychology: Gina Perry’s The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment and Martin Seligman’s The Hope Circuit...

Published Fri, Feb 22 2019 1:47 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue in Honour of Gerald Grob

The January 2019 issue of Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is a special issue in honour of historian of American psychiatry Gerald Grob. Full details below. “Introduction,” by Nancy Tomes; Kathleen W Jones. Abstract:...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2019 2:30 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America

Now available from Johns Hopkins University Press is Matthew Oram’s The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America. As described by the publisher: After LSD arrived in the United States in 1949, the drug’s therapeutic promise...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2018 8:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Aeon: Collective Psychiatry

AHP readers may be interested in a recent piece published in Aeon: “Collective psychiatry: Chinese psychiatry remains committed to the political ideal of mental hygiene, long after its discrediting in the West.” As Emily Baum writes in the...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2018 5:21 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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‘Every expression is watched’: Mind, medical expertise and display in the nineteenth-century English courtroom

Now available from Social Studies of Science: “‘Every expression is watched’: Mind, medical expertise and display in the nineteenth-century English courtroom,” by John Carson. Abstract: The growing presence of medical experts in the English...

Published Mon, Dec 31 2018 5:11 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue: Histories of Data and the Database

AHP readers may be interested in a special issue, “Histories of Data and the Database,” recently published in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Full details below. “Introduction: Scrutinizing the Data World,” by Soraya...

Published Sat, Dec 29 2018 7:35 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Special Issue: Psychotherapy in Europe

A special issue of History of the Human Sciences on “Psychotherapy in Europe,” guest edited by Sarah Marks, is now available. Full details follow below. Introduction: Psychotherapy in Europe, by Sarah Marks. Abstract: Psychotherapy was an...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2018 8:24 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS) Freie Universität Berlin, Germany June 13-14, 2019 This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS) will bring together...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2018 2:10 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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February 2018 Issue, History of the Human Sciences

The February 2018 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Full details follow below. “From evolutionary theory to philosophy of history: Raymond Aron and the crisis of French neo-transformism,” by Isabel Gabel. Abstract: Well...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2018 12:10 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Technology: Critical History of a Concept

AHP readers may be interested in Eric Schatzberg’s recently published Technology: Critical History of a Concept, now available from the University of Chicago Press. In tracing a three thousand year history of technology, Schatzberg includes a chapter...

Published Fri, Dec 28 2018 5:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Media and the History of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in Sweden, 1968-2008

A contribution from Peter Skagius to a new series on the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth site may interest AHP readers. Skagius describes his ongoing research on how child psychology and psychiatry were represented in Swedish media 1968...

Published Thu, Dec 27 2018 12:05 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

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Leo Postman and George Miller in the New AJP

The Fall 2017 issue of the American Journal of Psychology features two articles marking the journal’s 130th anniversary. The first explores the work of experimentalist Leo Postman and the second, the contributions of George Miller to the American...

Published Wed, Aug 30 2017 12:49 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, cognition, memory, American Journal of Psychology, Behaviorism, self experimentation, George Miller, theoretical psychology, Anniversaries, Leo Postman, experimentation

Psychoanalysis and History Special Issue: John Forrester

The August 2017 issue of Psychoanalysis and History is a special issue devoted to John Forrester (left). Articles explore the significance of Forrester’s work to the History and Philosophy of Science, Forrester’s efforts to translate Lacan’s...

Published Thu, Aug 24 2017 1:43 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Freud, psychoanalysis, Foucault, Lacan, John Forrester, thinking in cases, cases, History and Philosophy of Science

Nerves and War. Psychological Experiences of Mobilization and Suffering in Germany, 1900-1933

From October 12 to 13, 2017 the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at the Free University of Berlin is hosting a conference on “Nerves and War. Psychological Experiences of Mobilization and Suffering in Germany, 1900-1933.” Organized by Gundula Gahlen...

Published Thu, Aug 17 2017 6:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, Conferences, nerves, World War One, Germany, war

New Book! Constructing Pain: Historical, Psychological and Critical Perspectives

Now available from Routledge is Robert Kugelmann’s Constructing Pain: Historical, Psychological and Critical Perspectives. As described on the publisher’s website, Everyone experiences pain, whether it’s emotional or physical, chronic or acute...

Published Wed, Aug 16 2017 1:34 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, anthropology, Book Reviews, Robert Kugelmann, history of the human sciences, pain, health, critical health psychology

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Egos and experiments -Andrew Scull on the travails of social psychology

Special Issue in Honour of Gerald Grob

The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America

Aeon: Collective Psychiatry

‘Every expression is watched’: Mind, medical expertise and display in the nineteenth-century English courtroom

Special Issue: Histories of Data and the Database

Special Issue: Psychotherapy in Europe

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

February 2018 Issue, History of the Human Sciences

Technology: Critical History of a Concept

Media and the History of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in Sweden, 1968-2008

Leo Postman and George Miller in the New AJP

Psychoanalysis and History Special Issue: John Forrester

Nerves and War. Psychological Experiences of Mobilization and Suffering in Germany, 1900-1933

New Book! Constructing Pain: Historical, Psychological and Critical Perspectives