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New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain

The Beautiful Brain, a new book and touring exhibit documenting the work of Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal just launched. As the New York Times describes, Decades before these technologies existed, a man hunched over a microscope in Spain...

Published Mon, Feb 20 2017 10:59 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Books, brains, exhibit, Ramon y Cajal
CFP: ESHHS Meeting in Bari, Italy July 12-14, 2017

The European Society for the History of the Human Sciences has issued a call for abstracts for their 2017 meeting. Submission are due March 17th, 2017 and the meeting will take place in Bari, Italy from July 12th through 14th. Full details can be found...

Published Wed, Feb 08 2017 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences
Special Issue History of Psychiatry: Histories of Asylums, Insanity and Psychiatry in Scotland

The March 2017 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Guest edited by Chris Philo and Jonathan Andrews, this special issue explores “Histories of asylums, insanity and psychiatry in Scotland.” Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow...

Published Tue, Feb 07 2017 6:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, psychiatry, insanity, asylums, deinstitutionalization, Scotland, unions, art extraordinary, dynamic psychiatry, lunacy
New HoP: The Careers of Mowrer, Odum, & Puel, Digital History, & More

The February 2017 issue of History of Psychology is now online. Articles in this issue explore the work of O. Hobart Mowrer, Howard W. Odum, and Timothée Puel, respectively, Karl Menninger’s The Crime of Punishment, and the changing relationship between...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2017 9:26 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, crime, psychiatry, mental illness, indigenization, sexuality, digital history, religion, India, philosophy, Karl Menninger, O. Hobart Mowrer, Howard W. Odum, Timothée Puel, punishment, prison reform, folk songs
UCL/BPS Talk Feb. 6: Silvana Vetö “Psychological Practices in ‘House of Juveniles of Santiago’, Chile 1929–1942′”

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the next talk in its autumn seminar series. On Monday February 6th Silvana Vetö will be...

Published Fri, Jan 27 2017 1:49 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Chile, juveniles
Mesmerism @ The British Library

The British Library has somewhat of a mesmeristic theme going on with their programming this season: On their Untold Lives blog, Christopher Green (a different Chris Green than ours at York) writes about the career of Annie De Montford, a popular mesmerist...

Published Wed, Jan 25 2017 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Events, Mesmerism, exhibit, Annie De Montford, John Elliotson, The Lancet, Thomas Wakley
Photographic Procedures at Charcot’s Salpêtrière

The stellar Remedia blog has featured a piece by De Montfort University Photographic History Research Center fellow Beatriz Pichel called The Backstage of Hysteria: Medicine in the Photographic Studio. In it, the introduction and development of medically...

Published Sun, Jan 22 2017 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Medical History, Salpetriere, Jean-Martin Charcot, Albert Londe, Paul Regnard, history of photography
Deadline Extended: Cheiron 2017 Submissions Due Jan 29th!

The deadline for submission for the 2017 meeting of Cheiron has been extended until Sunday January 29th, 2017. Call for Papers: 49th Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences Conference Date...

Published Tue, Jan 17 2017 12:47 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, Cheiron
The 2016 SSHM Roy Porter Student Essay Competition

The British Society for the Social History of Medicine is now welcoming submissions from students for their annual Roy Porter Prize essay competition. The deadline is February 1st 2017, and the decision will be announced in July. Essays must be between...

Published Mon, Jan 16 2017 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, Social History of Medicine, Associations, SSHM, Student Essay competition, Roy Porter Prize
H-Sci-Med-Tech Call for Papers Roundup

With the new year comes the season for conference submissions, and your friendly editors over at the H-Sci-Med-Tech division of HNet have provided a range CfPs on topics that may be relevant to the work of scholars in our readership (click for link to...

Published Sun, Jan 15 2017 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, call for papers, Southern US history, healing arts, cyborgs, undead, European soical welfare
Advance Access from Social History of Medicine on Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968

A new article has been published online first by the journal of the Social History of Medicine that will be of interest to our readership. Katariina Parhi and Petteri Pietikainen write on “Socialising the Anti-Social: Psychopathy, Psychiatry and...

Published Fri, Jan 13 2017 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, psychiatry, Social History of Medicine, Finland, social engineering
Another New Books Network Podcast Interview: Elizabeth Barnes on The Minority Body

From the New Books Network of podcasts is a new interview with Elizabeth Barnes on their recent book The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. As New Books Network describes, We are all familiar with the idea that some persons are disabled. But what...

Published Wed, Jan 11 2017 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Disability Theory, disability as difference, feminist philosophy
Winter 2017 Issue of JHBS

The first issue of the Journal of The History of the Behavioral Sciences is now available (Vol. 53, 1). It features four articles, the topics of which span the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries: early social surveying in Denmark; the replacement of Richard...

Published Mon, Jan 09 2017 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, JHBS, Bowlby, Tavistock Clinic, self-concept, Gallop Jr., Danish social surveys, Richard Avenarius, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Wundt and Külpe
Essay Review: “Putting the Present in the History of Autism”

Now in press at Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences is “Putting the Present in the History of Autism” by Sam Fellowes. In this essay review, Fellowes...

Published Mon, Jan 02 2017 6:32 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, autism, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part C
New in Medical History: “‘Electroshock Therapy’ in the Third Reich”

The January 2017 issue of Medical History includes an article that may be of interest to AHP readers: “‘Electroshock Therapy’ in the Third Reich,” by Lara Rzesnitzek and Sascha Lang. The abstract reads, The history of ‘electroshock therapy...

Published Fri, Dec 30 2016 7:32 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Medical History, ECT, Third Reich, electroshock, Europe

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New Book & Touring Exhibit on Ramón y Cajal: The Beautiful Brain

CFP: ESHHS Meeting in Bari, Italy July 12-14, 2017

Special Issue History of Psychiatry: Histories of Asylums, Insanity and Psychiatry in Scotland

New HoP: The Careers of Mowrer, Odum, & Puel, Digital History, & More

UCL/BPS Talk Feb. 6: Silvana Vetö “Psychological Practices in ‘House of Juveniles of Santiago’, Chile 1929–1942′”

Mesmerism @ The British Library

Photographic Procedures at Charcot’s Salpêtrière

Deadline Extended: Cheiron 2017 Submissions Due Jan 29th!

The 2016 SSHM Roy Porter Student Essay Competition

H-Sci-Med-Tech Call for Papers Roundup

Advance Access from Social History of Medicine on Psychiatry and Social Engineering in Finland, 1945–1968

Another New Books Network Podcast Interview: Elizabeth Barnes on The Minority Body

Winter 2017 Issue of JHBS

Essay Review: “Putting the Present in the History of Autism”

New in Medical History: “‘Electroshock Therapy’ in the Third Reich”