Advances in the History of Psychology

New Books Network Podcast Interview w/ Scott Selisker on Human Programming

New from the New Books Network of podcasts is an interview with Scott Selisker on his recent book Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom. As New Books Network describes, Selicker’s book offers readers a fascinating new...

Published Thu, Dec 29 2016 12:31 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Podcasts, Interview, brainwashing, New Books Network, Scott Selisker, posthumanism

Keynote psychologist reframes Indigenous youth suicide as response to Canadian colonization

CBC reports on an event held earlier in the month in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. The Community Medicine Gathering was hosted by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations to bring educators, health workers, and adolescents together in response to...

Published Wed, Dec 21 2016 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Events, suicide, Canadian Psychology, Psychological sovereignty, Canadian First Nations

The Journal of Genetic Psychology’s 125th Anniversary Issue

G. Stanley Hall founded this journal as The Pedagogical Seminary in 1891. The title was changed under the editorship of Carl Murchison in 1924 to The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology, and then in 1954 the shift to its new focus was...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2016 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, G. Stanley Hall, developmental psychology, World War II, Piagetian theory, Pedagogical Seminary, Carl Murchison, Heinz Werner, 1920s, Milicent Shinn, Journal of Genetic Psychology

New Fiction: Skinner’s Quests

A new novel, by Richard Gilbert, offers of fictionalized account of what might have happened had B.F. Skinner and Sigmund Freud met. Skinner’s Quests is described as follows: Two of the best known psychologists of the twentieth century, B.F. Skinner...

Published Fri, Dec 16 2016 8:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Freud, Skinner, Alan Turing, Wittgenstein, fiction

Special Issue of HHS: “Social and Human Sciences across the Iron Curtain”

The October/December 2016 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. This special issue on “Social and Human Sciences across the Iron Curtain” is guest edited by Olessia Kirtchik and Ivan Boldyrev. Full titles, authors, and abstracts...

Published Fri, Dec 16 2016 6:02 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Cold War, Soviet Union, RAND corporation, USA, opinion polling, game theory, propaganda, Iron Curtain

Online Digital Project: After the Asylum/Après l’asile

A new national project, After the Asylum/Après l’asile, documenting the shift from institutional care to community mental health in Canada has recently launched. As historians Megan Davies and Erika Dyck discuss in a recent blog post, The shift from institutional...

Published Thu, Dec 15 2016 8:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, asylum, history, Canada, digital history, institutions, community mental health, deinstitutionalization

New Book: Purpose and Cognition: Edward Tolman and the Transformation of American Psychology

Soon-to-come from Cambridge University Press is a new volume on psychologist Edward Tolman and his influence on American Psychology. Purpose and Cognition: Edward Tolman and the Transformation of American Psychology, is written by psychologist David W...

Published Thu, Dec 15 2016 6:01 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, learning, Behaviorism, Edward Tolman

New Article Round-Up: LSD, Technology, Evolutionism, & Piaget’s New Theory

The following four recently published articles may be of interest to AHP readers. History of Science: “Rehabilitating LSD history in postwar America: Dilworth Wayne Woolley and the serotonin hypothesis of mental illness,” by Kim Hewitt. The...

Published Wed, Dec 14 2016 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, LSD, sociobiology, Piaget, Theory & Psychology, technology, instruments, History of Science, serotonin, evolutionary psychology, Dilworth Wayne Woolley, evolutionism

New Book: The Psychopath Machine: A Story of Resistance and Survival

Steve Smith has recently published a book detailing his experiences as a patient at Oak Ridge, the maximum security forensic mental hospital in Penetanguishene, Ontario, in the late-1960s and 70s. Details about Smith’s book, The Psychopath Machine...

Published Wed, Dec 14 2016 6:04 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Canada, patient experiences, forensic, Oak Ridge

Call for Papers: Congrès Binet 2017

A call for papers has been issued for Congrès Binet 2017: A l’occasion des 160 ans de la naissance du psychologue Alfred Binet, la Société Binet-Simon organise un colloque intitulé Alfred Binet expérimentateur. Entre archives de la psychologie et...

Published Tue, Dec 13 2016 11:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences

New Book: The Friendship of Kahneman and Tversky

A new book on the famous collaboration – and friendship – of psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman has just been released. The book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, is written by Michael Lewis whose previous...

Published Tue, Dec 13 2016 9:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Book Reviews, New York Times, The New Yorker, friendship, Vanity Fair, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman

UCL/BPS Talk Dec 12: Arthur Eaton “History Telling: Writing a Biography of Psychohistory”

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 December 12th Arthur Eaton (left)...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2016 8:14 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, psychiatry, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, psychoanalysis, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines

Call for Submissions: Special Issue of HoP on the History of Psychology and Psychiatry in the Global World

History of Psychology invites submissions for a special issue on the history of psychology and psychiatry in the global world. Until recently, historical research in the history of psychology and psychiatry tended to focus on the development of these...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2016 10:13 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, psychiatry, HoP, colonial psychiatry, call for submissions, non-western world, global world, Hans Pols, post-colonial, Harry Yi-Liu Wu

Call for Submissions to The Psychologist‘s “Looking Back” Feature

The British Psychological Society‘s monthly magazine The Psychologist is soliciting submissions for its regular Looking Back feature. Full details below. The Looking Back feature of The Psychologist is inviting submissions on the history of psychology...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2016 6:39 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, BPS, The Psychologist, call for submissions

New History of Psychiatry: DSM, Phrenology, War Psychiatry, & More

The December 2016 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Articles in this issue explore psychiatric classification in the DSM, Italian colonial psychiatry, the phrenological studies of skulls, and more. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow...

Published Sun, Nov 13 2016 6:43 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, DSM, Brazil, skulls, Italy, war, phrenology, classification, delusion, agoraphobia, Africa, anxiety, mania, Pinel, Libya, neurology, colonial psychiatry, Esquirol