Advances in the History of Psychology

Chomsky’s Linguistics: Between Behaviorism and Cognitive Science

The March 2016 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is now online. An article by Gregory Radick on the place of Noam Chomsky’s linguistics in the borderlands of the history of psychology may be of interest to AHP...

Published Sun, Apr 10 2016 6:43 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Gregory Radick, Noam Chomsky, cognitive science, C. F. Hockett, behavorism

New JHBS: Child Science, Ink Blots, Subconscious Conflict, & More

The Spring 2016 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Articles in this issue explore the work of V. M. Bekhterev, patient experiences of “subconscious conflict” in prewar America, the history of the...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2016 6:26 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Russia, Rorschach, britain, SSRC, Social Science Research Council, Bekhterev, pre-war America, neurasthenia, reflexology, child science, Carnegie Corporation

Kitty Genovese’s Killer Has Died in Prison

As The New York Times reports, Winston Mosesley has died in prison at the age of 81. Mosesley infamously raped and murdered Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964. The story that 38 bystanders stood by and did nothing as Genovese pled for help during...

Published Tue, Apr 05 2016 2:32 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Links, bystander intervention, Kitty Genovese, New York City, bystander effect, New York Times

New Articles: 19th Cure Rates for Insanity & Constitutional Therapy in Nazi Germany

The April issue of Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences includes two articles that may be of interest to AHP readers. Titles, authors, and abstracts follow below. ““The Glamour of Arabic Numbers”: Pliny Earle’s Challenge...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2016 7:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, insanity, Germany, mental health, moral treatment, constitutional therapy, public hygiene, racial hygiene, cure, Nazi, Pliny Earle

Call for Papers: “Dialogues: History, Psychology, Health”

The Revista Psicologia e Saúde (Journal Psychology and Health), the Journal of the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Universidade Catolica Dom Bosco (Brazil) has issued a call for papers for a special issue, “Dialogues: History, Psychology, Health...

Published Sun, Apr 03 2016 6:40 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, RIPeHP, call for papers, Brazilian Psychology, health

AHA Today American Humanities ‘Alliance Action Alert’

For our United-Statesian friends, the American Historical Association‘s blog AHA Today responds to the latest of perennial calls by the House of Representatives Budget Committee to end federal funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2016 6:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Associations, American Historical Association, Historical Alliance Action Alert, National Endowment for the Humanities

Cinema and Failed “Rat Utopia” Over on the H-Word

The H-Word blog over at The Guardian has just published a piece on the influence of rat experiments on the novel High Rise, the basis for a newly released film of the same name. As author Jesse Olszynko-Gryn notes in his post, the most influential example...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2016 12:58 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Blogs, Books, rats, John B. Calhoun, deviance, ethology, National Institute of Mental Health, The H-Word, The Guardian

Weekend Listening with the CBC and BBC

A couple of history of psychology related pieces cropped up from podcast land just in time to shift into gear for the weekend. For your listening pleasure, from CBC Radio’s Ideas and BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, episodes on transcultural psychiatry...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2016 12:15 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Bedlam, Podcasts, BBC, Radio, McGill, CBC, transcultural psychiatry, St Mary of Bethlehem, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Emil Kraepelin

Special Issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology on existential psychotherapy

Those in our readership oriented towards the intersection of therapy and philosophy will be quite keen on the June 2016 issue of Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology because of its theme, existential psychotherapy. The guest editor is Duff Waring...

Published Thu, Mar 17 2016 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, existentialism, psychotherapy, philosophy, ontology

A brief history of personality psychometrics on The Conversation

Academic journalism site The Conversation posted a short piece on personality testing that touches on the context-boundedness and reflexive aspects of such measures and how they relate to the history of the field more generally. Titled Psychology by numbers...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2016 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Resources, Psychometrics, teaching resources, personality testing, Myers Briggs, looping effects

2016 Cheiron Book Prize

From the Executive Officer David K. Robinson of Cheiron (International Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences): In acknowledgment of the book’s exceptional contributions to our understanding of Adolf Meyer and the field he singularly...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2016 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Adolf Meyer, Cheiron, Funding & Awards, origins of psychiatry

3 year Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Hidden Persuaders

The Wellcome Trust funded ‘Hidden Persuaders? Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990’ has announced a new 3-year post-doctoral fellowship. Applications for the position are due April 13th and interviews...

Published Sun, Mar 13 2016 7:04 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Cold War, Daniel Pick, Jobs, brainwashing, psy-professions, Hidden Persuaders, post-doctoral fellowship

New History of Psychiatry: Psychogeriatrics, Delusions, & More!

The March 2016 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Articles in this issue explore psychogeriatrics in mid-twentieth century England, phenomenological explanations of delusions, the founding of the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich...

Published Fri, Mar 11 2016 6:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, History of Psychiatry, Russia, Germany, Spain, art, delusion, Pavel Ivanovich Karpov, Santa Isabel National Mental Asylum, Spanish Civil War, England, psychogeriatrics, German Research Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, bipolar disorder

Interactive Timeline: “Replication in Psychology: A History Perspective”

Those who’ve been following the most recent controversy over the replicability of psychological findings (see here, here, here, here, and here for a primer), may be interested in the latest output from the PsyBorgs Digital History of Psychology...

Published Thu, Mar 10 2016 6:19 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, Links, Michael Pettit, timeline, replication, digital history, psyborgs, Research, replication crisis, controversy

National Museum of Psychology Kickstarter Coming April 13th!

Observations, part of the Association for Psychological Science’s magazine the Observer, has announced that the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio is launching a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a National Museum of Psychology...

Published Wed, Mar 09 2016 11:34 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, museum, Cummings Center, APS, kickstarter, National Museum of Psychology