Advances in the History of Psychology

Special Issue: “Feminism and/in/as Psychology: The Public Sciences of Sex and Gender”

The August issue of History of Psychology is now online. Guest edited by Alexandra Rutherford and Michael Pettit, this special issue explores “Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender.” As Rutherford and Pettit...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2015 10:51 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, DSM, Michael Pettit, ethics, Alexandra Rutherford, feminism, feminist psychology, marriage, parent education, sexology, consciousness-raising

New History of Psychiatry: Possession in the DSM, Jung’s Seances, & More

The September 2015 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Among the articles in this issue are ones on Carl Jung (above) and his investigation of his cousin’s mediumship, the epistemological problems of incorporating possession into the DSM...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2015 3:34 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, DSM, History of Psychiatry, Jung, psychotherapy, christianity, China, occult, museums, possession, mental health care history, Samuel Butler, new age, George Romanes, canine madness

BBC Radio4’s Mind Changers: “Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach”

The most recent episode of BBC Radio 4’s Mind Changers programme explores “Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach.” As described on the BBC site, Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series which examines the work...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2015 11:43 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Podcasts, bbc radio 4, mind changers, Radio, Carl Rogers, psychotherapy, person-centred psychotherapy

August Issue of Theory &Psychology : Implicit Mentalization, Intercorporeality, Affective Conjunctions, & More

The latest issue of Theory & Psychology has been posted online and contains many compelling pieces, including works on Situated and Embodied Social Psychology, a critical Wittgensteinian investigation of methodological plurality, and a cultural-historical...

Published Thu, Aug 06 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Theory & Psychology, Wittgenstein, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty

Call for Papers: 2016 Joint ESHHS/Cheiron Meeting in Barcelona

The first call for papers for the 2016 joint meeting of ESHHS (European Society for the History of Human Sciences) & Cheiron (International Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences) has been issued. The meeting will take place in...

Published Wed, Aug 05 2015 8:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, ESHHS, Cheiron, cfp, Barcelona

CfP for Workshop: Pharmacopoeias in the Early Modern World

Joseph Gabriel (out of University of Wisconsin) is hosting a workshop in Madison April 1st and 2nd, 2016 titled Organizing the World of Healing Goods: Materia Medica, Pharmacopeias, and the Codification of Therapeutic Knowledge in the Early Modern World...

Published Tue, Aug 04 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, call for papers, psychopharmacology, Seminars, pharmacopeia

Historiography in the Social History of Medicine: Records at the NIH and the UK Web Archive

The latest issue of Social History of Medicine includes two pieces related to historiographic research methods that may be of interest to our readership. In light of (and as case against) the downsizing of the Office of History at the American National...

Published Sun, Aug 02 2015 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, digital history, Social History of Medicine, NIH, UK Web Archive

Networking the Early Years of the American Journal of Psychology

The most recent issue of the American Journal of Psychology includes an article exploring the journal’s earliest years of publication. In “The Evolution of The American Journal of Psychology 1, 1887– 1903: A Network Investigation” Christopher...

Published Wed, Jul 29 2015 8:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Christopher Green, American Journal of Psychology, G. Stanley Hall, digital history, network

’37’- A Forthcoming Film on the Kitty Genovese Case

The New York Times reports that a film, titled ’37’, on the infamous Kitty Genovese murder is in the works. The Genovese case is often credited with providing the impetus for research into the bystander effect, whereby bystanders fail to intervene...

Published Tue, Jul 28 2015 7:57 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, News, Kitty Genovese, diffusion of responsibility, bystander effect, feature film

BBC Mind Changers: New Episodes on Carol Dweck and B.F. Skinner

BBC Radio 4’s Mind Changers programme has returned with new episodes. Currently available is an episode on psychologist “Carol Dweck and Growth Mindset.” The episode is described as follows: Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology...

Published Mon, Jul 27 2015 9:34 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: bbc radio 4, mind changers, Radio, B. F. Skinner, growth mindset, Carol Dweck, pigeon

History and the Hoffman Report: A Round-Up

Chances are you, like us, have been following the fall out from the American Psychological Association’s Hoffman Report, which details how the organization colluded with the United States government to ensure psychologists remained part of its torture...

Published Sun, Jul 26 2015 9:04 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, News, Resources, psychiatry, Podcasts, BBC, torture, APA, Cold War, CIA, ethics, Laura Stark, Radio, brainwashing, Canada, Marcia Holmes, Hoffman Report

Theory & Psychology Online Firsts July 2015

Theory & Psychology has published a couple of articles from their upcoming issue online first. By Michael Billig a piece titled The myth of Kurt Lewin and the rhetoric of collective memory in social psychology textbooks. A rhetorical analysis is conducted...

Published Tue, Jul 21 2015 9:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Kurt Lewin, Theory & Psychology, textbooks, rhetoric, political psychology, community psychology, feminist theory

CfP: Special Issue of HoP on History of Psychotherapy in North and South America

A call for papers has been issued for a special issue of History of Psychology on the history of psychotherapy in North and South America. Guest edited by Rachael Rosner, the issue will be released in parallel with a special issue of History of the Human...

Published Sat, Jul 18 2015 9:18 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, Journals, History of Psychology, special issue, history of the human sciences, psychotherapy, call for papers, South America, North America, Rachael Rosner

New JHBS: Race Relationships, Lazarfeld’s Voter Studies & More!

The summer issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Articles in this issue explore the relationships of scientists who disagreed over the nature of race, the origins of Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Procedure...

Published Fri, Jul 17 2015 8:16 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, anthropology, race, social, Mary Ainsworth, Alfred Binet, publishing, Paul Lazarfeld, strange situation procedure, voter studies

LSD Research, “Normal Controls,” and the Making of “Vulnerable Populations”

In a recent piece on the Somatosphere blog, historian Laura Stark describes the making of “vulnerable populations” in medical experimentation. Currently writing a book on the emergence of “normal control” subjects in medical research...

Published Thu, Jul 16 2015 11:14 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, Blogs, LSD, Laura Stark, Research, somatosphere, vulnerable populations, medical experimentation, normal controls