Advances in the History of Psychology

Video Interview: Sleep in the Age of Shakespeare

Psychologist Peter Hegarty, of the University of Surrey, has interviewed English scholar Garrett Sullivan, of Pennsylvania State University, on the history of sleep. From ideas about sleep in the age of Shakespeare to Descartes to Freud, Hegarty and Sullivan...

Published Thu, Jul 04 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Video, Interview, Peter Hegarty, Shakespeare, Garrett Sullivan, sleep

Obedience to Authority Conference Program Now Online

The full program for this summer’s Obedience to Authority Conference is now online. Fifty years after Stanley Milgram’s now infamous shock experiments, the conference looks back at the impact these studies have had on the discipline and in...

Published Wed, Jul 03 2013 11:12 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, Jill Morawski, obedience to authority, Milgram, Ian Nicholson, Hank Stam, Gina Perry, Thomas Blass, Herbert Kelman

New Talk! History of Possession, June 26th

The History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series, organized by the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has just announced a new talk...

Published Thu, Jun 20 2013 8:08 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, psychiatry, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, possession

BBC Radio 4: The Truth and Nothing but the Truth

BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast The Truth and Nothing but the Truth in which psychologist Geoff Bunn explores lie detecting technologies, past and present. In this episode, much like in his recent book The Truth Machine: A Social History of the Lie Detector...

Published Fri, Jun 14 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Podcasts, Geoff Bunn, bbc radio 4, Deception, lie detector, Wonder Woman, Dick Tracy, Ken Alder

New Issue of Memorandum: Memory & History in Psychology

A new issue of the open access journal Memorandum: Memory & History in Psychology (Memorandum: Memória e História em Psicologia) is now online. Included in this issue are six articles in Portugese and one in English. Full titles, authors, and abstracts...

Published Thu, Jun 13 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, music, Brazil, Rorschach, Memorandum: Memory and History in Psychology, historical psychology, James Pratt, Satre, Lacan

Podcast: BackStory‘s DSM and Deception Episodes

BackStory with the American History Guys is a podcast series hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh. In each episode Ayers, Onuf, and Balogh, along with their guests, explore the historical roots of a topic of current relevance...

Published Wed, Jun 12 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, DSM, Podcasts, Geoff Bunn, Deception, lie detector, BackStory, Wonder Woman

Film: Adaptive Behavior in Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels

Continuing our recent series of posts (here and here) on University of Oregon psychologist Lester Beck’s films, we bring one final film to your attention: Beck’s 1942 footage Adaptive Behavior in Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels. The film is...

Published Tue, Jun 11 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, University of Oregon, Lester Beck, Squeak the Squirrel, animal behaviour, squirrel

More Lester Beck Film Footage: Human Growth

As a followup to last week’s post of psychologist Lester Beck’s Photographic Studies in Hypnosis we bring you more of Beck’s film footage. The above film, Human Growth, was produced in 1947 under Beck’s guidance as an introduction...

Published Mon, Jun 10 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, University of Oregon, Lester Beck, students, reproduction, human growth, sex education

Film: Lester Beck’s Photographic Studies in Hypnosis

YouTube’s CreativeCommonsTV has posted a clip of University of Oregon psychologist Lester F. Beck’s Photographic Studies in Hypnosis. The footage from 1938 is described as, This silent film shows a woman being hypnotized and includes both...

Published Fri, Jun 07 2013 3:00 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, film, hypnosis, Society for the History of Psychology, University of Oregon, Lester Beck

New Book: Mical Raz’s The Lobotomy Letters

Physician and historian of medicine Mical Raz‘s new book on the history of American psychosurgery is now in print. Raz’s book, The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery, explores the history of this controversial procedure...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2013 10:44 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, lobotomy, Mical Raz, psychosurgery

Special Issue: History of Psychology in Canada!

The May 2013 edition of Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne is a special issue dedicated to the history of psychology in Canada. Guested by Adrian Brock, the issue includes a number of articles exploring different facets of psychology’s development...

Published Mon, Jun 03 2013 12:56 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, culture, gender, eugenics, John Wallace Baird, Alberta, women's movement, history of psychology in Canada, women psychologists, internationalization

Edited Volume on Cold War Social Science

The history of Cold War era American social science has been ably documented in a new edited collection, Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Library Democracy, and Human Nature. Edited by historians Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, the volume...

Published Sat, Jun 01 2013 3:26 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Cold War, politics, Mark Solovey, human nature, American social science, democracy, knowledge production, Hamilton Cravens

New: June 5th BPS Hist. of Psych. Disciplines Talk!

The History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series, organized by the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has just announced a new talk...

Published Wed, May 29 2013 8:11 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, Jelena Martinovic, Russell Noyes, near death

Congrats Society for the History of Psych Award Winners!

Congratulations to the Society for the History of Psychology‘s 2013 award winners: Saulo de Freitas Araujo (left), Joshua Clegg (right), Jill Morawski (centre), and Graham Richards! Freitas Araujo and Clegg have been awarded the Society’s...

Published Thu, May 23 2013 9:38 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Conferences, Graham Richards, Saulo de Freitas Araujo, Joshua Clegg, award, Society for the History of Psychology, Jill Mora

Angelo Mosso & “Weighing Brain Activity with the Balance”

Neuroskeptic, over on Discover Blogs, has just posted a review of an article now in press at Brain on nineteenth century Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso’s attempts to measure blood flow to the brain. As Neuroskeptic describes, Mosso’s …early...

Published Wed, May 22 2013 10:42 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Blogs, Journals, brain, soul, Neuroskeptic, blood flow, balance, neuroimaging, Mosso