Advances in the History of Psychology

History of Psychology and Science Communication

This is a special joint post, authored by Jacy Young, Filipe Degani and Rodrigo Miranda, and published simultaneously on both AHP and RIPeHP (Blog da Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em História da Psicologia). It is undeniable that scientific communication...

Published Thu, Sep 05 2013 4:05 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Blogs, Center for the History of Psychology, Mind Hacks, Society for the History of Psychology, Psychology's Feminist Voices, information technologies, Ed Yong, science communication, Carl Zimmer, Paul Krugman

Call for Papers: HoP in Universitas Psychologica

The journal Universitas Psychologica has issued a call for papers for a special issue dedicated to the history of psychology to be published in 2014. Articles in English and Spanish of not more than 20 pages in length are to be submitted by November 15th...

Published Wed, Sep 04 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, special issue, call for papers, Universitas Psychologica

Quit Clowning Around!

Smithsonian.com has issued an article titled “The History of Clowns Being Scary” that might be of interest to some of our readers. “Clowns, as pranksters, jesters, jokers, harlequins, and mythologized tricksters have been around for ages. They appear...

Published Tue, Sep 03 2013 7:22 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Coulrophobia

New Hist. of Psychiatry: Karl Jaspers, Bavarian Royals, & More

The September 2013 issue of History of Psychiatry is now online. Included in this issue are articles on the Weberian influence on Karl Jaspers’ (left) work, psychiatric analyses of Bavarian royalty, Swedish child psychiatry, and more. Full titles...

Published Wed, Aug 28 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, children, Max Weber, Karl Jaspers, psychopathology, Sweden, werewolves, anti-psychiatry, Bavaria, Portugal, Villa 21

New HoP: Milgram, Murray, Nostalgia, and More!

The August 2013 issue of History of Psychology is now online. Included in this issues are articles that look at the history of the concept of nostalgia, the contingencies surrounding the voice-feedback condition in Stanley Milgram’s obedience to...

Published Tue, Aug 27 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Wundt, Journals, Brazil, History of Psychology, Milgram, nostalgia, Henry Murray

Summer Reading: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

If you are a follower the Facebook page of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association) you will have seen their recent post of video from the Kellogg experiment (above). Luella and Winthrop Kellogg...

Published Fri, Aug 23 2013 9:51 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, development, Books, chimpanzee, fiction, Karen Joy Fowler, Gua, Kellogg experiment

New Book: Edgar Rubin and Psychology in Denmark

Scholarship on the history of psychology in Denmark has a new addition: Edgar Rubin and Psychology in Denmark. The volume is the work of Jörgen L. Pind, Professor of Psychology at the University of Iceland. Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin is perhaps best...

Published Wed, Aug 21 2013 10:03 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Denmark, Edgar Rubin, Jörgen L. Pind, figure ground illusion, Gestalt

New Book: The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955

Egbert Klautke, of University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies, has written a book on the history of Völkerpsychologie. The Mind of the Nation: Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955 recounts how Völkerpsychologie struggled...

Published Mon, Aug 19 2013 12:14 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Wundt, Books, Interview, Völkerpsychologie, Germany, Egbert Klautke, folk psychology

APA Monitor: Preparing the Human Machine for War

The July/August issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology is now online. This issue’s Time Capsule section features an article on psychologist E. G. Boring’s popular 1943 book Psychology for the Fighting...

Published Thu, Jul 18 2013 10:40 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, APA Monitor, Ben Harris, E. G. Boring, war

More HOP Graphic Novels: It’s Harry Harlow’s Turn

AHP has previously posted on the relationship between graphic novels and the history of psychology – in terms of psychology’s interactions with the reading of comics, the lie detector-Wonder Woman link, and the ways its history has periodically...

Published Wed, Jul 17 2013 5:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Resources, Books, Book Reviews, Harlow, Behaviorism, Harry Harlow, Graphic novel, comics

BPS ‘Stories of Psychology’ Symposium, October 2013

The British Psychological Society‘s History of Psychology Centre is hosting its third annual history of psychology symposium October 15, 2013. This year’s event, “Stories of Psychology,” looks at the history of psychology and the...

Published Thu, Jul 11 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Alan Collins, art, stories of psychology

Visiting Robbers Cave: A History of Psychology Roadtrip

This is a special post co-authored by Jacy Young and Jennifer Bazar and published simultaneously at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. This June, following a successful Cheiron meeting in Dallas, Texas two of AHP’s...

Published Wed, Jul 10 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Links, Robbers Cave, Muzafer Sherif, roadtrip, Carolyn Wood Sherif, cooperation, competition

Four Floors + a Gift Shop: A History of Psychiatry Roadtrip

This is a special post co-authored by Jennifer Bazar and Jacy Young and published simultaneously at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. The 45th annual meeting of Cheiron was held at the end of June in Irving, Texas...

Published Tue, Jul 09 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Other, Resources, museum, psychiatry, Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph Missouri, roadtrip

Open Access Article: “How Personality Became Treatable”

Now available free online is the article, “How personality became treatable: The mutual constitution of clinical knowledge and mental health law.” In this article, published in the February 2013 issue of Social Studies of Science, sociologist...

Published Mon, Jul 08 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Social Studies of Science, Martyn Pickersgill, United Kingdom, personality disorders, law, treatment

Article: “The Unfinished Work of Ignacio Martín-Baró”

The January 2013 issue of the Spanish Journal of Psychology includes an article by José María Gondra, of the Universidad del País Vasco, on the unfinished work of psychologist Ignacio Martín-Baró (left). As Gondra describes, Martin-Baró’s work was...

Published Fri, Jul 05 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, José María Gondra, Central America, El Salvador, liberation psychology, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Spanish Journal of Psychology