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Blog Post: UTSIC’s Projective Tests as Material Culture

The University of Toronto Scientific Instrument Collection’s Kira Lussier writes on the history of the Rorschach (and other projective tests) at UofT, and its uptake in popular culture. Read her full piece here. Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Feb 19 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, archives, tests and measures, Rorschach, projective tests, instruments, University of Toronto
New issue of HoP featuring digital history, Brazilian psychology at the Belo Horizonte Teachers College, and much more!

The first issue of the 18th volume of History of Psychology is now available (here). Contents include a digital networking of early articles in the journal Psychological Review, an account of Alfred Binet’s subject Jacques Inaudi, the relation between...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2015 7:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, education, HoP, Brazil, History of Psychology, Alfred Binet, digital history, speech perception, James J. Gibson, Brazilian Psychology, history of the subject, Psychological Review, Haskins Laboratories
UCL /BPS Seminar: Sarah Marks on the Historical Question of Communist Psychiatry

On February 23rd at 6-7:30, University College London’s Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, in conjunction with the British Psychological Society, will be hosting a talk by Sarah Marks titled “Communist Psychiatries? Neurasthenia and...

Published Sun, Feb 15 2015 6:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, psychiatry, BPS, history of the human sciences, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, history of medicine, Communist science
Special Issue of Science in Context: “Of Means and Ends: Mind and Brain Science in the Twentieth Century”

The March 2015 issue of Science in Context is now online. Guest edited by Stephen T. Casper (left), the articles in this special issue explore the roles played by context in the brain and mind sciences. To quote the epilogue written by Roderick...

Published Wed, Feb 11 2015 6:30 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, psychiatry, brain, STS, psychosurgery, Henry Murray, Science in Context, history of the psychological disciplines, History of Science, Vacuum Tube, Edgar Adrian, Münsterberg, Starke Hathaway, Christina Morgan, MMPI, Psychotechnics, TAT, Paul Forman, Psychometrics
New HHS: Brain Sciences in the Lycée, Linguistics in Imperial Germany, & Much More

The February 2015 issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles on educational reformers’ promotion of brain sciences in Third Republic France, shifting attention in linguistics to “living”...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2015 8:59 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, evolution, Journals, brain, functionalism, psychoanalysis, France, Germany, Bruno Latour, industrial psychology, Giambattista Vico, social theory, Lycée, linguistics, self practices, Arland Weeks, cultural psychology
History of Psych at Sundance

Two films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival take inspiration from now infamous experiments from psychology’s past. Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard, centres on Stanley Milgram’s controversial obedience to authority experiments...

Published Sun, Feb 01 2015 12:55 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, Milgram, Sundance, Zimbardo
Feb. 9 Talk! BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar Series

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 Thu, Jan 29 2015 8:45 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, psychiatry, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, culture-bound syndrome, koro, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines
History of Psychology 101 Outstanding Academic Title of 2014

Congratulations to David Devonis whose History of Psychology 101 has been named Outstanding Academic Title of 2014! Share on Facebook Read More...

Published Thu, Jan 29 2015 6:39 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, textbook, David Devonis
HoP Special Issue CFP: “Does the History of Psychology Have a Future?”

History of Psychology invites submissions for a special issue on the topic of “Does the History of Psychology Have a Future?” Submission for the special issue are due July 15, 2015. The full call for papers is reproduced below. HISTORY OF...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2015 1:35 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, History of Psychology, special issue, call for papers, Kurt Danziger, future of history of psychology
JHBS Special Issue: “The Social Sciences in a Cross-Disciplinary Age”

The winter 2015 issue of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is a special issue dedicated to “The Social Sciences in a Cross-Disciplinary Age.” Guest edited by Philippe Fontaine (left), the articles in this issue explore facets...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 9:53 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, sociology, JHBS, Cold War, Philippe Fontaine, history of recent social science, communications, area studies, George Miller, RAND corporation, Columbia University, psycholinguistics, Bureau of Applied Social Research, interdisciplinarity, political science, Noam Chomsky
Review Essay: “Subject matter: Human behavior, psychological expertise, and therapeutic lives”

The February 2015 issue of Social Studies of Science includes a Review Essay of a number of recent works in the history of the human sciences. In this essay Michael Pettit (left) surveys recent monographs by Peter Hegarty (Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred...

Published Thu, Jan 08 2015 10:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Michael Pettit, Social Studies of Science, review essay, therapeutic lives, subjectivity, expertise
The Story of Aaron Beck & Cognitive Therapy in Isis

The December 2014 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, features on article on the work of psychiatrist Aaron Beck (above). Adopting a biographical approach, the article describes how Beck came to articulate his cognitive...

Published Wed, Jan 07 2015 7:39 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, biography, Isis, CBT, Aaron Beck
History of Psych in American Journal of Psychology

The Winter 2014 issue of the American Journal of Psychology is now available online. The issue’s “History of Psychology” section includes two articles of interest to AHP readers. Robert Proctor and Rand Evans discuss the complicated...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2014 10:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Titchener, American Journal of Psychology, G. Stanley Hall, laboratory, women psychologists, Experimentalists, French psychology, Clark University, Marcel Baudouin
The Wellcome Collection’s Interactive Mindcraft

The Wellcome Collection has launched an interactive exhibit Mindcraft. As introduced in the video above, Mindcraft explores a century of madness, murder and mental healing, from the arrival in Paris of Franz Anton Mesmer with his theories of ‘animal...

Published Thu, Dec 18 2014 10:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Resources, Mesmerism, madness, hypnotism, Wellcome Collection, Mindcraft, mental healing
New History of the Human Sciences: Psychopathy, Catholic Psych, & More

The December 2014 issue of History of the Human Sciences, the final one under the editorship of James Good, is now available. Articles in this issue include ones on the history of psychopathy, Catholic psychology and psychoanalysis, early physiological...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2014 9:51 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, addiction, phrenology, physiological psychology, Catholic psychology, dementia, psychopathy

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Blog Post: UTSIC’s Projective Tests as Material Culture

New issue of HoP featuring digital history, Brazilian psychology at the Belo Horizonte Teachers College, and much more!

UCL /BPS Seminar: Sarah Marks on the Historical Question of Communist Psychiatry

Special Issue of Science in Context: “Of Means and Ends: Mind and Brain Science in the Twentieth Century”

New HHS: Brain Sciences in the Lycée, Linguistics in Imperial Germany, & Much More

History of Psych at Sundance

Feb. 9 Talk! BPS History of Psych Disciplines Seminar Series

History of Psychology 101 Outstanding Academic Title of 2014

HoP Special Issue CFP: “Does the History of Psychology Have a Future?”

JHBS Special Issue: “The Social Sciences in a Cross-Disciplinary Age”

Review Essay: “Subject matter: Human behavior, psychological expertise, and therapeutic lives”

The Story of Aaron Beck & Cognitive Therapy in Isis

History of Psych in American Journal of Psychology

The Wellcome Collection’s Interactive Mindcraft

New History of the Human Sciences: Psychopathy, Catholic Psych, & More