Advances in the History of Psychology

New in Social History of Medicine

There are a number of articles in the just released May issue of Social History of Medicine that may be of interest to AHP’s readers. In a piece on music and hypnosis, James Kennaway explores the long and complicated relationship between music and...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 9:04 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, asylum, Mesmerism, music, hypnosis, suicide, alcoholism, brainwashing

New Episodes of Mind Changers!

BBC Radio 4 program Mind Changers, a series hosted by Claudia Hammond in which she explores “the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century,” has just returned with new episodes. Now available online are episodes on the...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 6:58 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Podcasts, mind changers, I-E scale, Julian Rotter, phobias, Joseph Wolpe, locus of control, systematic desensitization

New Book: Beyond the Shock Machine

The ongoing saga of Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments now includes yet another chapter. Australian psychologist and writer Gina Perry has just released a book, Beyond the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram...

Published Wed, Apr 25 2012 7:57 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, obedience to authority, Milgram, Gina Perry

New in Isis: History of Textbooks, Funding

The March 2012 issue of Isis, the official journal of the History of Science Society, is now online. Included in this issue are a couple of articles of interest to historians of psychology. In “Senator Fred Harris’s National Social Science...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 9:03 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Marga Vicedo, funding, textbooks, Mark Solovey

BPS Origins Timeline Now Online

The British Psychological Society‘s Origins Project on the evolution and impact of psychological science is now online. The Origins Project is an online interactive timeline populated with events significant to the development of psychology, particularly...

Published Mon, Apr 23 2012 7:07 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, BPS, History of Psychology Centre

Blog Survey: We Need Your Feedback!

We at AHP have put together a quick survey about our blog and would love to get your feedback on how we’re doing. This is our opportunity to learn more about you, our reader, and your opportunity to tell us what you like, what you hate, and what...

Published Sun, Apr 08 2012 9:01 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, survey

Revisiting Yesterday’s Psychology Today

The Association for Psychological Science‘s (APS) popular periodical, the Observer is publishing an ongoing series of reflections upon interviews with prominent psychologists originally published in Psychology Today decades ago. As described on...

Published Sun, Apr 08 2012 7:31 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Links, APS Observer, Carl Rogers, Harry Harlow, Psychology Today, B. F. Skinner, Carl Jung

Podcast: Ann Fabian on The Skull Collectors

AHP‘s readers may be interested in a podcast interview with historian Ann Fabian (left) produced by the New Books Network (as part of both the New Books in History and New Books in Science, Technology, and Society series). Fabian was interviewed...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2012 1:41 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Books, Podcasts, Interview, Stephen Jay Gould, Ann Fabian, skulls, Samuel Morton

America’s First Sport Psychologist

The April 2012 issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology is now online. This month’s Time Capsule section includes a piece from AHP‘s own Christopher Green who recounts the story of psychologist Coleman...

Published Sun, Apr 01 2012 12:18 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Links, APA Monitor, Christopher Green, sports psychology, Coleman Griffith, Chicago Cubs

BBC Radio4: Writing Madness

Currently streaming on BBC Radio4 for the next 6 days is a program exploring the influence of psychiatric ideas on literature and vice versa. In Writing Madness, literary works by Virginia Woolf (above), F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Charles Dickens are discussed...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:06 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Freud, Podcasts, madness, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, psychotherapy, literature

Exhibit: Brains: The Mind as Matter

As of this coming Thursday, March 29th, the Wellcome Collection in London is featuring a special exhibit on the brain. The exhibit, Brains: The Mind as Matter, runs until June 17th, 2012. As one of the many online components of this exhibit, the Wellcome...

Published Mon, Mar 26 2012 7:24 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, Resources, Wellcome Collection, brains

On Now: X-Rays of the Soul

Anyone who happens to be in the Boston area, may want to stop by the Special Exhibitions Gallery of Harvard University’s Science Center. Currently featured in the Center is a special exhibition on the history of projective tests titled, X-Rays of...

Published Sat, Mar 24 2012 8:57 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Events, Resources, Peter Galison, Rorschach, projective tests, Thematic Apperception Test, Janet Browne

Early American Psychoanalysis in…Baltimore?

The early history of psychoanalysis in Baltimore is chronicled in a piece from a rather unlikely source: Baltimore Style Magazine. In addition to detailing some of the early work on psychoanalysis conducted in Baltimore, the article describes how the...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 9:04 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: News, Links, psychoanalysis, Baltimore

Robbers Cave Exp.: A Week with the Boys

The Oklahoma focused This Land Press has published a online piece about the Robbers Cave experiment. “A Week with the Boys” details the work of social psychologists, and husband and wife, Muzafer and Carolyn Sherif who studied in-group formation...

Published Thu, Mar 22 2012 10:53 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Resources, Links, Robbers Cave, Carolyn Sherif, in-groups, Muzafer Sherif

Radiolab Podcast: The Turing Problem

The most recent “Short” episode released by the wonderful Radiolab radio program tackles the life and work of Alan Turing. In The Turing Problem, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich describe Turing’s tragic life and his contributions...

Published Wed, Mar 21 2012 5:27 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Podcasts, homosexuality, Radiolab, Turing