Advances in the History of Psychology

New Isis: Organizational Revolution and the Human Sciences, Neurohistory, & More

The March 2014 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is now online. Included in this issue are a number of items of interest to AHP readers, including a special Focus section on Neurohistory. Full titles, authors, and...

Published Tue, Apr 15 2014 7:01 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Isis, human sciences, neurohistory, organizational revolution

New JHBS: “Primitive” Mentality, James on Emotion, Bekhterev’s Psychoreflexology, & More

The Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles on studies of “primitive” mentality, human factor psychology, William James’s theory of emotion, and Bekhterev’s...

Published Mon, Apr 14 2014 5:16 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, JHBS

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Published Mon, Apr 07 2014 9:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General

Mapping Science & Reform: The First Generation of Chicago-Trained Female Social Scientists, Part I

This is part of a special series of posts on the digital history of psychology from members of the PsyBorgs Lab at York University, in Toronto, Canada. The full series of posts can be found here. There now exists a large and robust historiography on women...

Published Mon, Apr 07 2014 5:55 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, social science, digital history, psyborgs, prosopography, women, Chicago, social reform

History of the Human Sciences in Isis

The most recent issue of Isis, the journal of the History of Science Society, includes two articles on the history of the human sciences. Leila Zenderland explores the work of Max Weinreich (above) on culture and personality at the Yiddish Scientific...

Published Wed, Mar 26 2014 3:12 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, culture, Isis, human sciences, Max Weinreich, Latin America, personality

Interview with Marga Vicedo on The Nature and Nurture of Love

AHP is pleased to present an interview with historian of science Marga Vicedo on her recent book The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America. The full interview follows below. Many thanks to Marga for agreeing to...

Published Tue, Mar 25 2014 11:29 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Books, Harlow, Cold War, Interview, Marga Vicedo, attachment, Bowlby, Lorenz, Ainsworth, mother love, instinct, biology

Mar. 24th Talk! Over the Edge: William Sargant and the Battle for the Mind

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 the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series. UCL’s...

Published Thu, Mar 13 2014 3:13 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, psychiatry, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, britain, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, William Sargent

The History of Qualitative Psychology in Qualitative Psychology

Qualitative Psychology is a new journal from the American Psychological Association. The journal’s first issue includes two articles that may be of interest to AHP readers. In ”Qualitative inquiry in the history of psychology” Frederick...

Published Wed, Mar 12 2014 3:32 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, William James, David Suzuki, qualitative research

New Book: How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality

A new volume from the University of Chicago Press may be of interest to AHP readers. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality describes efforts to reshape rationality within the human sciences during the Cold War. A...

Published Tue, Mar 11 2014 3:32 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Cold War, rationality, reason

New Issue History of Psychiatry: Albert Moll and Hypnosis, Therapeutic Fascism, Lycanthropy, & More

A new issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Included in this issue are articles on Albert Moll (right) and hypnosis, therapeutic fascism, lycanthropy, and much more. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below. “The powers of suggestion...

Published Mon, Mar 10 2014 3:59 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, History of Psychiatry, hypnosis, citizenship, fascism, Albert Moll, lycanthropy

The Psych Files: What Was Life Like in an Asylum?

The most recent episode of the Psych Files features an interview with AHP blogger Jennifer Bazar. In “What Was Life Like in an Asylum?” Bazar describes life in the asylum in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As described on...

Published Fri, Mar 07 2014 3:37 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Podcasts, asylums, the psych files

NPR: What Really Happened The Night Kitty Genovese Was Murdered?

NPR has posted a brief interview with Kevin Cook on his new book Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. (For more on the Kitty Genovese case and its often repeated errors see our previous posts here.) Audio of the...

Published Thu, Mar 06 2014 3:31 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, NPR, Kitty Genovese

Revisiting Erving Goffman’s Asylums and “The Insanity of Place”

A recent article in Symbolic Interaction provides insight into sociologist Erving Goffman’s work on mental illness. As part of a freely available special issue dedicated to Goffman, Dmitri N. Shalin explores the role of Goffman’s personal...

Published Wed, Mar 05 2014 6:35 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, biography, asylums, Erving Goffman

Music from the Asylum

As the old adage goes, there is more than one way to share history. A new project that takes this idea to heart will be made available to the public next week. The Telegraph has reported that Edward Elgar’s “Music for Powick Asylum”...

Published Tue, Feb 25 2014 4:21 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, asylum, psychiatry

New HoP: Italian Social Psych, Postwar College Counselling Centers, & Psych’s Vocabulary

The February 2014 issue of History of Psychology is now online. Included in this issue are articles on the creation of college counseling centers in postwar America, a comparison of psychology’s vocabulary with that of other disciplines, and the...

Published Thu, Feb 20 2014 3:47 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Wundt, Journals, Italian psychology, social psychology, History of Psychology, vocabulary, Soviet, Counseling, Russian