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Nov. 25th Talk! BPS History of Psychological 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 the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series. On...

Published Thu, Nov 14 2013 11:10 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, UCL, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Germany, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Andreas Sommer, experimental psychology, Carl du Prel

CfP Cheiron 2014, Frederick, MD June 19th-22nd

Cheiron, the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, has issued a call for papers for its 2014 meeting. The meeting will take place June 19th to 22nd, 2014 at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland (situated mid-way between...

Published Wed, Nov 13 2013 7:28 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, Cheiron, call for papers

Are we Living in a Golden Age of Mesmerism?

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. Digital history seems hard to a lot of people. All those...

Published Tue, Nov 05 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, hypnosis, digital history, Google, Ngram, phrenology, memerism, digital

HoP in the November 2013 issue of Social History of Medicine

The November 2013 issue of Social History of Medicine includes two articles that may be of interest to AHP readers. In the first of these articles, Rob Ellis discusses the role of politics in the management of the insane at London County Council’s...

Published Mon, Nov 04 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, asylum, britain, Social History of Medicine, chronic mental patients

New Book: Emil du Bois-Remond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Gabriel Finkelstein, Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver, has just published a volume on the life and work of nineteenth century physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond. An important figure in uncovering the electrical nature...

Published Fri, Nov 01 2013 2:57 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, neuroscience, nerves, Gabriel Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond, self

Nov. 11th Talk, BPS History of Psychological 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 organized the BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series. On Monday, November 11th University...

Published Thu, Oct 31 2013 2:55 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Sushrut Jadhav, semen

CfP: 1st Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science

The First Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science, to be held in France June 13-14, 2014, has issued a call for papers. The conference aims to bring together scholars working on the history of post-war social sciences, including psychology...

Published Tue, Oct 29 2013 9:36 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, social science, France, call for papers, Jamie Cohen-Cole, Philippe Fontaine, Jeff Pooley, Nicolas Guilhot

New Blog: Andreas Sommer’s Forbidden Histories

Historian of the human sciences Andreas Sommer (right), a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, has recently begun a blog Forbidden Histories. Sommer’s historical work...

Published Wed, Oct 23 2013 3:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Andreas Sommer, occult, Forbidden Histories, rationality, human sciences

Interview: Marga Vicedo on The Nature and Nurture of Love

The podcast series, New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (part of the New Books Network), has just released a new episode featuring an interview with Marga Vicedo on her recent book, The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment...

Published Mon, Oct 21 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Podcasts, Cold War, Interview, Marga Vicedo, attachment, Harry Harlow, New Books Network, love, John Bowlby, Konrad Lorenz

New Issue: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

The fall 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences is now online. Included in this issue are articles on the research into Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep in the 1960s, investigations of animal electricity by Alexander von Humboldt...

Published Fri, Oct 18 2013 3:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, Netherlands, animal electricity, rapid eye movement sleep, electric eel, Argentina, self experimentation, Alexander von Humboldt, neurobiology, epilepsy

Treating Functional Somatic Disorders in WWI inJHMAS

The October 2013 issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences is now online. Included in this issue is an open access article by Stefanie Caroline Linden and Edgar Jones, both of Kings College London, that may be of interest to...

Published Thu, Oct 17 2013 3:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, JHMAS, World War One, Germany, somatic disorders, treatment, battle casualties

Toronto Talk Oct. 30th: Testing Temperament at Work

Our Toronto area readers may be interested in an upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Kira Lussier (right), a graduate student at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the...

Published Wed, Oct 16 2013 3:47 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, human relations, labour relations, industrial psychology, Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale, psychological test, temperament

Looking Back 40 Years On: The APA Committee on Women in Psychology

Forthcoming in Psychology of Women Quarterly is an article detailing the history and achievements of the American Psychological Association’s Committee on Women in Psychology. Formed in 1973, the committee has served as an activist feminist group...

Published Wed, Oct 16 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, APA, Psychology of Women Quarterly, feminism, Committee on Women in Psychology

The History of Psychology as Multispecies Network, Part 2

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. Read The History of Psychology as Multispecies Network, Part 1 here. I found this visualization unsatisfying...

Published Tue, Oct 15 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Isis, Committee for Research on Problems of Sex, digital history, psyborgs, organisms, visualization

New Issue of History of the Human Sciences: Historians in the Archive

A new issue of History of the Human Sciences is now online. The October 2013 release is a special issue on the topic of “Historians in the Archive: Changing Historiographical Practices in the Nineteenth Century.” As described by guest editors...

Published Mon, Oct 14 2013 3:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, archives, historiography, history of the human sciences, testimony, archival turn, historian