Advances in the History of Psychology

BPS’ 2015 Stories of Psychology Symposium

The History of Psychology Centre at the British Psychological Society will be holding its 5th annual Stories of Psychology Symposium on Wednesday, October 14th. This year’s title is Clinically Applied: Origins of a Profession. According to the website...

Published Thu, Jul 16 2015 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, stories of psychology, Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology

New Article: “Vital Instability: Life and Free Will in Physics and Physiology, 1860–1880″

The most recent issue of Annals of Science includes an article that may be of interest to AHP reads. In “Vital Instability: Life and Free Will in Physics and Physiology, 1860–1880” Marij van Strien (left) describes efforts by nineteenth century...

Published Mon, Jul 13 2015 8:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, physics, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Helmholtz, vitalism, Annals of Science

A 3D-Printed 19th c. Psych Instrument – See Kirschmann’s Colour Mixer in Action!

Erich Weidenhammer, a graduate of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, has recently remade a Farbenmisch-Apparat nach Kirschmann (“Colour mixing apparatus after Kirschmann’s design”) via...

Published Sun, Jul 12 2015 5:07 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Resources, instruments, University of Toronto, Research, colour research, University of Toronto Scientific Instruments Collection, August Kirschmann, Erich Weidenhammer

Special Issue of Medical History on Skill in Medicine & Science

The new issue of Medical History (guest edited by Nicholas Whitfield and Thomas Schlich at the Social Studies of Medicine program at McGill) is focused on the theme of skill in the history of medicine and science. The editorial is historiographically...

Published Fri, Jul 10 2015 6:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, psychiatry, Adolf Meyer, animal behaviour, Medical History, neuropathology, neurosurgery, history of skill, medical skill

New HHS: Mark May at the Institute of Human Relations, Neurofeedback & Selfhood, & More!

The July 2015 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Among the articles in this issue are one’s on Durkheim’s followers, psychologist Mark May’s influence on the Institute of Human Relations at Yale University, and the...

Published Thu, Jul 09 2015 11:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, history of the human sciences, Gestalt, self, Durkheim, neurofeedback, Mark May, Institute of Human Relations

New 5 Minute History Lesson: “Ruth Howard”

The Cummings Center for the History of Psychology has released the second episode in its series 5 Minute History Lesson. The episode is discusses the life and work of psychologist Ruth Howard and features audio from a telephone interview with Howard by...

Published Mon, Jul 06 2015 8:18 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, Resources, Center for the History of Psychology, Cummings Center, Ruth Howard

BBC Radio: “The Psychology of War”

As part of the programme, The War that Changed the World, BBC Radio has aired an episode on “The Psychology of War.” The episode features an expert panel and live audience discussing war’s psychological effects. As described on the BBC...

Published Fri, Jul 03 2015 8:56 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, BBC, memory, trauma, WWI, Radio, The Open University

July 13th BPS/UCL Seminar! “The Course of Modern Psychoanalysing About Myth”

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 as part of its summer term BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar...

Published Thu, Jul 02 2015 10:44 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, psychoanalysis, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, myth, Robert Segal

Launch of New Online Museum Dedicated to the History of Behavioral Neuroscience in Brazil

AHP is pleased to announce the launch of a rich new web resource: the Museu de História das Neurociências Comportamentais [the History Museum of Behavioral Neuroscience]. The site features a digital collection of scientific instruments connected to the...

Published Wed, Jul 01 2015 6:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Resources, museum, neuroscience, digital history, instruments, laboratories, Brazilian Psychology, digital exhibit, Rodrigo Lopes Miranda, behavioral neuroscience

New Issue of HoP Fresh off the Press!

The May 2015 issue of History of Psychology (vol 18, issue 2) is now available (find online here), and is chock-full of interesting content. From analyses exploring the materiality of psychological and psychiatric instruments (including the Cattell Infant...

Published Tue, Jun 30 2015 11:10 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, HoP, Italian psychology, Walter Freeman, History of Psychology, Jean Piaget, digital history, CBT, Brazilian Psychology, Psychological Review, Crisis in Psychology, Argentinian Psychology, Florence Goodenough, Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Utica Crib

New Isis: Psychopathy in Germany & Helmholtz’s Musicology!

The June 2015 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is now online. Included in the issue are two articles of special interest to AHP readers: Greg Eghigian (right) documents the history of psychopathy in Germany, while...

Published Thu, Jun 25 2015 8:27 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Isis, music, Greg Eghigian, Germany, Helmholtz, psychopathy, musicology

Resource: Online Guide to Medical Humanities Dissertations

Margaret DeLacy over at the H-Scholar network has linked to a resource that could be of interest to our readership: a large collection of ProQuest info for dissertations from subject areas within the umbrella of the ‘medical humanities’ that...

Published Wed, Jun 24 2015 7:15 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Resources, psychiatry, Links, medicine, historiography, Research, medical humanities, dissertations

Cheiron Workshop: “Archives, Repositories, Websites, Blogs, Exhibits, Oh My! Digitization Considerations and Conceptualizations”

The 47th Annual Meeting of Cheiron, the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, just wrapped up at the University of Kansas. On the final day of the meeting we presented the workshop “Archives, Repositories, Websites...

Published Sat, Jun 20 2015 8:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Conferences, Cheiron, digital history, digital humanities, Psychology's Feminist Voices, digital exhibit, workshop, Remembering Oak Ridge

The New Yorker: “The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment”

The New Yorker has just posted an article on “The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment.” A new feature film The Stanford Prison Experiment, starring Billy Crudup as psychologist Philip Zimbardo, provides the impetus for the piece...

Published Fri, Jun 19 2015 8:12 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, Links, Stanford prison experiment, Philip Zimbardo, feature film, The New Yorker

2-Day Workshop: “Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy-Professions”

The Hidden Persuaders Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image at Birkbeck College, University of London is holding a 2-day workshop July 3 & 4, 2015. The workshop, “Brainwash: History, Cinema and the Psy-Professions,” is...

Published Wed, Jun 17 2015 8:49 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, brainwashing, workshop, cinema, psy-professions, persuasion