Advances in the History of Psychology

Somatosphere Review: Nicolas Langlitz’s Neuropsychedelia

Head on over to the blog Somatosphere for a review of Nicolas Langlitz’s recent book, Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research Since the Decade of the Brain. The volume is described on the publisher’s website as an examination...

Published Mon, Apr 13 2015 9:54 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, anthropology, Book Reviews, psychedelics, LSD, psychopharmacology, hallucinogens, somatosphere, Nicolas Langlitz, Decade of the Brain

Special Issue: “Ordering the Social: History of the Human Sciences in Modern China”

The March 2015 issue of the journal History of Science is a special issue on “Ordering the Social: History of the Human Sciences in Modern China.” Guest edited by Howard Chiang (right), the issue includes several articles that may be of interest...

Published Fri, Apr 10 2015 9:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, psychiatry, culture, Pavlov, culture-bound syndrome, koro, China, human sciences, paleoanthropology, zaolian (early love)

“Why is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders so hard to revise?”

The forthcoming June 2015 issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences includes an article by Rachel Cooper on the difficulty of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical...

Published Thu, Apr 09 2015 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, DSM, classification, DSM-V

New JHBS: The Visual Cliff, POW Stress, Models of Addiction, & More

The Spring 2015 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles on the forgotten animals of the visual cliff experiment, stress research and the POW experience, the use of animal models...

Published Wed, Apr 08 2015 2:01 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Cold War, eleanor gibson, visual cliff, alcoholism, addiction, stress, political science, animals, behavioralism, POW, models

Why was Wundt’s journal titled Philosophical Studies?

Wilhelm Wundt is best known as the founder of first laboratory dedicated specifically to experimental psychology. But he titled the journal that published his famous laboratory’s research Philosophische Studien (Philosophical Studies). Why was that...

Published Sun, Apr 05 2015 1:24 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Wundt, Journals, psychical, spiritualism, paranormal

Call for Participation: Interviews with Archival Researchers

Here at AHP, we’re interested in fostering conversation about historiographic theory and methods, and as we have access to such a vibrant community of historians and allied researchers, I thought I’d forward this query posted on the H-Public...

Published Fri, Apr 03 2015 9:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Other, archives, historiography, digital history, Inside the Digital History of Psych, Research, Information and Library Science

BBC Radio Free Thinking Series: Madness in Civilisation

The March 17 2015 episode of BBC 3’s Free Thinking with Matthew Sweet featured authors Andrew Scull and Lisa Appignanesi, who discussed the history of madness within Western contexts–the reflexive relations between how it has been conceptualized...

Published Tue, Mar 24 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, asylum, psychiatry, Podcasts, madness, Interview, historiography, Radio, psychoanalysis

New Book: The Classification of Sex, Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge

By Donna J. Drucker, guest professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. The back cover reads: Alfred C. Kinsey’s revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. His meticulous...

Published Tue, Mar 17 2015 7:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Alfred Kinsey, sex, observational studies

New Book: Beautiful Data, A History of Vision and Reason since 1945

By Orit Halpern, assistant professor at the New School for Social Research/Eugene Lang College and associate of their Parsons the New School of Design. Published by the Duke University Press. The dust jacket flap text reads as follows: Beautiful...

Published Mon, Mar 16 2015 8:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Podcasts, big data, history of data, data visualization, communication sciences, perception, cybernetics, design

Call for Papers: 4S Open Panel on STS, Technology & Psychology

CfP: Open Panel @ the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) November 11-14, 2015. Denver, CO. STS Open Panel call for papers deadline: March 22, 2015. An open panel is being hosted at the 4S AGM on “STS & Technologies...

Published Fri, Mar 06 2015 8:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, psychiatry, Conferences, STS, material culture, subjectivity, science, Associations, 4S

Women’s History Month @ Psychology’s Feminist Voices!

Our sister site Feminist Voices is celebrating Women’s History Month with a-post-a-day on their social media! Connect with their facebook & twitter accounts to take part in the fun: do some historical sleuthing into the lives...

Published Thu, Mar 05 2015 6:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Events, Resources, digital history, Psychology's Feminist Voices, Inside the Digital History of Psych, women, Women's History Month

Call for Graduate Student Papers: “Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences”

CFP from graduate students for a conference at the University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 18/19, 2015. This conference, titled Sorting Brains Out: Tasks, Tests, and Trials in the Neuro- and Mind Sciences, 1890–2015, invites “participants to think...

Published Thu, Feb 26 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, psychiatry, Conferences, cfp, conference

In The Lancet: 5O years of neuroscience

In the ‘Perspectives’ section, Steven Rose writes: The British Neuroscience Association (BNA) is teaming up with the Edinburgh International Science Festival for its annual conference this April. The BNA will be celebrating the 50th anniversary...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Conferences, neuroscience, Edinburgh Science Festival, Lancet, Steven Rose, BNA

UCHPD Sonu Shamdasani Inaugural Lecture

On Tuesday, March 17 at 6:30 pm in the Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at University College London, Sonu Shamdasani will deliver a lecture entitled “Why Study the History of Psychotherapy?” Shamdasani is the Philemon Professor of Jung History and...

Published Mon, Feb 23 2015 7:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, UCL, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Sonu Shamdasani, psychotherapy

In the New Issue of JHN: Jirí Procháska, Ludwig Edinger, & More

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of the Neuroscience is now online (find it here). Included in this issue are articles on the first comparative survey of the microscopic anatomy of vertebrate brains, tuberculosis-related aphasia in the nineteenth...

Published Sun, Feb 22 2015 7:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, neuroscience, JHN, Procháska, aphasia, Endinger, neuroanatomy