Advances in the History of Psychology

July 18th Workshop, Psychoanalytic Filiations: Mapping The Psychoanalytic Movement

UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines is hosting a one-day workshop on how to write the history of the psychoanalytic movement. The workshop, which marks the publication of Ernst Falzeder’s book, ‘Psychoanalytic Filiations...

Published Tue, Jun 16 2015 8:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Freud, Conferences, UCL, psychoanalysis, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Carl Jung, Sandor Ferenczi, workshop, Otto Rank

Contribute to The Psychologist’s “Looking Back” Column!

The British Psychological Society’s magazine, The Psychologist, is looking for brief contributions for its regular history column “Looking Back.” Previous articles from the column are largely open access and can be read online here....

Published Mon, Jun 15 2015 7:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, BPS, The Psychologist, Looking Back

Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning Optioned as a Film

Psychologist Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning, in which he attempts to make sense of the Holocaust, has been optioned as a film. The Guardian reports, Frankl, a contemporary of Freud, lost his whole family during the Nazi’s attempted...

Published Wed, Jun 10 2015 1:46 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Holocaust, Viktor Frankl, feature film, logotherapy, meaning

Seminar: History of the Psychological Disciplines Series

The next session of the British Psychological Society & UCL’s History of Psychology Centre‘s conjunct History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminars takes place on June 16, 6:00 pm at the Arts and Humanities Common Room (G24), Foster...

Published Tue, Jun 09 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, trauma, Associations, Seminars, seminar

Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ Children Banned in Groundbreaking Ontario Legislation

Ontario has become the first Canadian province to legislate a bill that renders such so-called therapies for children illegal, and prevents medical practitioners of adult treatments from billing the provincial health care system. The Toronto Star reports...

Published Mon, Jun 08 2015 6:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, medicine, science media, legislation, LGBTQA, psychology and law

Community Announcement: Cummings Center for the History of Psychology Expansion

The Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron, which houses the Archives of the History of American Psychology, a Museum of Psychology and hosts public education and outreach programs, will be closing to all researchers from September...

Published Sun, Jun 07 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, News, Resources, museum, Center for the History of Psychology, Historical Tourism, Research, Archives of the History of American Psychology

Remembering Oak Ridge: A Digital Exhibit

AHP‘s very own contributor Jennifer Bazar has curated a fascinating online historical archive and exhibit on the Oak Ridge forensic mental health division of the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene, Ontario. Find the exhibit...

Published Fri, Jun 05 2015 9:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, drugs, Resources, asylum, psychiatry, madness, medicine, historiography, digital history, Historical Tourism, Research, institutions, digital exhibit, Ontario, criminal justice, Waypoint Centre, forensics

A Recent Resurgence of “Excited Delirium”?

The Washington Post recently featured a piece on the resurgence of “excited delirium” as cause of death for a number of individuals held in police custody. Amnesty International estimates that as many as 75 of more than 300 deaths in police...

Published Thu, Jun 04 2015 9:06 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, excited delirium, taser, Washington Post, police

New Issue History of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia Symptoms, British Colonial Asylums, & More

The June 2015 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. The issue includes articles on the symptoms of schizophrenia, British colonial lunatic asylums, and “senile dementia” in the decades before 1979. Also in the issue is a classic text...

Published Wed, Jun 03 2015 8:26 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, schizophrenia, symptoms, asylums, Portugal, colonialism, senile dementia, British colonial psychiatry, Hans W. Gruhle, social psychiatry, World Health Organization

BBC Radio4’s “Ritual Sexual Abuse: The Anatomy of a Panic”

BBC Radio4 is currently airing a two-part programme on “Ritual Sexual Abuse: The Anatomy of a Panic.” As their website describes, David Aaronovitch of The Times traces the powerful intellectual influences behind what he sees as one of the...

Published Tue, Jun 02 2015 7:27 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, DSM, Links, Podcasts, Sybil, ritual sexual abuse, sex abuse panic, moral panics

HHS Special Issue: “Vygotsky in His, Our and Future Times”

The April 2015 issue of History of the Human Sciences is dedicated to “Vygotsky in His, Our and Future Times.” Guest edited by Gordana Jovanovic, the special issue includes a set of introductory reflections from Jerome Bruner on “The...

Published Mon, Jun 01 2015 9:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, culture, history of the human sciences, Vygotsky, Gordana Jovanović

Gender on the Brain: Neuroscience, Stereotypes, & Science Communication

Cliodnha O’Connor and Helene Joffe out of the Division of Psychology & Language Sciences at University College London have conducted an interesting analysis of how public audiences have responded to research on neurobiological sexual dimorphism...

Published Sun, May 31 2015 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, gender, neuroscience, brain, Research, science media, sex differences, sexism

Feature from PFV: Does Psychology have a Gender?

Researchers from York’s own Psychology’s Feminist Voices, Alexandra Rutherford, Kelli Vaughn-Johnson, and Elissa Rodkey have put out an engaging piece in BPS’s June 2015 issue of The Psychologist. It’s a brief yet compelling survey...

Published Mon, May 25 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, BPS, historiography, PFV, gender analysis, gendered history, disciplinary history

June 2015 Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Symposium

Some AHP readers may interested in a forthcoming symposium on Mad Studies and Neurodiversity. The one day event will take place Wednesday June 17th at Lancaster University in the UK,and “aims to foster dialogue between two relatively new areas of...

Published Fri, May 22 2015 9:10 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, neurodiversity, mad studies

“The ‘crisis’ of psychology between fragmentation and integration: The Italian case”

In an article forthcoming in Theory & Psychology Mariagrazia Proietto and Giovanni Pietro Lombardo explore the history of the idea of “crisis” in psychology through the lens of Italian psychology. The article is now available OnlineFirst...

Published Thu, May 21 2015 9:35 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, historiography, Theory & Psychology, crisis, Italy, epistemology, philosophy, history of Italian psychology, international