Advances in the History of Psychology

Publication Announcement: The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical & Philosophical Psychology

This month saw the publication of a collaborative text on theoretical and philosophical psychology, edited by Jack Martin, Jeff Sugarman, and Kathleen Slaney out of Simon Fraser University. The volume is comprised of sections on: philosophical/conceptual...

Published Wed, May 20 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, historiography, teaching, philosophical psychology, theoretical psychology

New Books in STS Interview: Matthew Heaton’s Black Skin, White Coats

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, part of the New Books Network, has posted an interview with Matthew Heaton about his recent book Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry. As described...

Published Thu, May 14 2015 11:05 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, psychiatry, Book Reviews, New Books Network, colonialism, New Books in STS, Nigeria

Interactive History of Psych Resource: Investigating Psychology

A new interactive history of psychology resource, Investigating Psychology, is now freely available online via The Open University. The tool was created by Rose Capdevila (The Open University), Eleni Androuli (The Open University), and Katherine Hubbard...

Published Wed, May 13 2015 9:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Investigating Psychology, Eleni Androuli, interactive, Rose Capdevila, Katherine Hubbard, The Open University

Nordic Network for Madness Studies

Continuing the theme of the history of madness that has organically cropped up in our posts as of late, the Finnish University of Oulu‘s Department of the History of Science and Ideas has launched a new forum for scholars of madness as a substantive...

Published Tue, May 12 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Resources, asylum, madness, historiography, Research, Finland, Nordic region, social services, madness studies

The Anatomist, The Alienist, The Artist & changing expressions of madness in Victorian Britain

The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences has published an article online by S. Huddleston and G. A. Russell (out of the Department of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine) on the 19th century case of painter...

Published Sun, May 10 2015 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, asylum, psychiatry, madness, medicine, Sir Charles Bell, Bethlem, Sir Alexander Morison, anatomy, Broadmoor, facial features, alienism, physiognomy, Richard Dadd, facial expression

APA Monitor: A (Nearly) Centenarian Jerome Bruner

The May issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology features an interview with psychologist Jerome Bruner in advance of his 100th birthday this fall. As the introduction to the interview describes, Early on, Bruner explored...

Published Thu, May 07 2015 9:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, education, development, Links, APA Monitor, Interview, Jerome Bruner, perception, scaffolding, cognitive psychology

Mediating Shell Shock: The 1918 Film ‘War Neuroses’ as Clinical Controversy

BPS’ May volume of The Psychologist includes an insightful historical piece by Edgar Jones (out of the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London). His article, Filming Trauma, assesses the influence and...

Published Wed, May 06 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Journals, psychiatry, film, shell shock, BPS, WWI, Maudsley Hospital, PTSD, science media, Pathé, British Medical Research Committee

TPR: Andrew Scull’s “Madness and meaning: Depictions of insanity through history”

The Paris Review currently features a beautifully illustrated piece from historian Andrew Scull. In “Madness and Meaning” Scull discusses the many depictions of mental illness – religious, medical, pharmaceutical – produced through...

Published Tue, May 05 2015 9:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, Journals, insanity, Links, madness, images, Andrew Scull, The Paris Review

Somatosphere Review of Cohen-Cole’s The Open Mind

The blog Somatosphere has posted a review of Jamie Cohen-Cole’s The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. The book is described on the publisher’s website as follows, The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation...

Published Mon, May 04 2015 4:21 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Book Reviews, Jamie Cohen-Cole, somatosphere

Social History of Medicine May Issue

The May 2015 issue of Social History of Medicine is now online. The issue includes a number of items that may be of interest to AHP readers, including an article on Irish patients in the Victorian Lancashire asylum system and one on the importance of...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2015 9:20 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, asylum, civil rights, mental health, Social History of Medicine, pain, Irish

Seminar Series @ Oxford History of Medicine Wellcome Unit

The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine‘s current series of seminars is on “Medicine & Modern Warfare.” Two talks may be of particular interest to the AHP community: April 27: … Continue reading Seminar Series @ Oxford...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Events, psychiatry, medicine, World War Two, war trauma, PTSD

Issues in Open Scholarship: ‘If Data Sharing is the Answer, What is the Question?’

The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics‘ publication ERCIM NEWS put out a special issue on ‘scientific data sharing and re-use.’ In it Christine Borgman (out of UCLA’s department of Information Studies...

Published Tue, Apr 21 2015 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Journals, Books, Podcasts, archives, big data, Research, data, informatics, open access

Special (31 Article!) Issue of Universitas Psychologica

A special issue of the journal Universitas Psychologica dedicated to the history of psychology is now freely available online. The issue includes 31 contributions which explore the history of psychology in a variety of international locales. Articles...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2015 10:11 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Brazil, special issue, mental testing, Behaviorism, behavior analysis, Universitas Psychologica, Argentina, Christian Wolff, South America, Chile

The Cummings Center: 5 Minute History Lesson

The Cummings Center for the History of Psychology has just released the first video in a new series 5 Minute History Lesson. Episode 1, featured above, explores the life and work of psychologist James V. McConnell. A second episode, on Ruth Howard Beckham...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2015 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Center for the History of Psychology, James McConnell, Cummings Center, Ruth Howard Beckham

April 20th Talk! Religion & Anti-psychiatry in Imperial Germany

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 spring term BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2015 9:29 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, UCL, History of Psychology Centre, Germany, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, anti-psychiatry, religion, Eric Engstrom