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CFP: Childhood, Youth & the Emotions

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development’s Centre for the History of Emotions is organizing a three-day conference on Childhood, Youth, and the Emotions in Modern History. The conference will take place from November 29th to December 1st, 2012 in...

Published Wed, Feb 08 2012 4:03 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Conferences, Max Planck, childhood, youth, emotions

APA Monitor: A History of Maze Research

This month’s issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology has just gone online. Featured in this issue’s Time Capsule section is an article by C. James Goodwin on the history of maze research in American psychology...

Published Wed, Feb 01 2012 9:25 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, APA Monitor, Edmund Sanford, maze research, Willard Small, Linus Kline, James Goodwin

Timothy Leary and More in New JHBS

The winter 2012 issue of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS) has just been released online. Regular readers of JHBS may notice something different about the journal this year. The journal’s cover has been redesigned to now...

Published Mon, Jan 30 2012 8:11 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Timothy Leary, LSD, Kurt Goldstein, Max Weber, extraordinary phenomena

Reminder: CFP Joint Cheiron/ESHHS Conference

Just a quick reminder to AHP’s readers that the deadline for submissions to the joint Cheiron (the International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences) and European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) conference...

Published Mon, Jan 30 2012 9:01 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, ESHHS, Cheiron

The Return of Hysteria?

Hysteria is a condition strongly associated with the 19th century, and with long-past historical figures such as Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud. It was finally dropped from the psychiatric vocabulary in the mid-20th century because of its uncertain...

Published Sun, Jan 29 2012 7:11 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Opinion, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, hysteria

SRCD Oral Histories Go Online

The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) has just posted online a number of transcripts from its Oral History Project. Over the course of its 25 year history, the SRCD Oral History Project has interviewed 135 important scholars in the field...

Published Tue, Jan 17 2012 7:45 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Resources, Links, eleanor gibson, child development, eleanor maccoby, Mary Ainsworth, oral history, Jerome Kagan, Society for Research in Child Development

2012: The Year of Alan Turing

In recognition of the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing‘s birth, 2012 has been declared Alan Turing Year. Centenary celebrations of Turing’s life and work are well underway and will continue throughout 2012 at locations around the world. Turing...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 6:32 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, News, Alan Turing

APA Monitor: The West Cure

The January 2012 issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology has just been published online. This month’s Time Capsule article examines the male alternative to the rest cure often prescribed for nervous women in...

Published Mon, Jan 02 2012 10:29 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, APA Monitor, rest cure, Theodore Roosevelt, The Yellow Wallpaper, Walt Whitman, Anne Stiles, Charlottle Perkins Gilman, west cure

Köhler’s Anthropoid Research Station Circa 2011

In 1913, Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler moved from Germany to the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. In Puerto de la Cruz on the island of Tenerife, Köhler assumed the directorship of the Prussian Academy of Science Anthropoid Research Station...

Published Thu, Dec 22 2011 4:20 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, News, primate, Tenerife, Wolfgang Köhler

CFP: Symposium of the Spanish Society for HoP

The Sociedad Española de Historia de la Psicología (Spanish Society for the History of Psychology) has issued a call for papers for its forthcoming 25th annual symposium to be held in Santiago de Compostela in May 2012. Full details follow below. Announcement...

Published Tue, Dec 06 2011 5:49 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Conferences, Spanish Society for the History of Psychology

Lessons from Bird Brains

The December issue of the American Psychological Association‘s Monitor on Psychology is now online. This month’s Time Capsule section features a piece, “Lessons from Bird Brains,” by Cathy Faye on the work of Eckhard Hess on imprinting...

Published Thu, Dec 01 2011 9:57 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Links, Cathy Faye, genetic, learning, birds, Eckhard Hess, imprinting

Interview: Special Issue on “Crisis” in Psychology

AHP is please to present an interview with Annette Mülberger (left) and Thomas Sturm (right), editors of a fantastic forthcoming special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences on the long history of crisis declarations...

Published Wed, Nov 30 2011 12:05 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: Journals, Interview, Cathy Faye, crisis, Uljana Feest, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Part C, Ludmila Hyman, Gary Hatfield, Horst Gundlach, Thomas Sturm, Annette Mülberger, John Carson, hristian Allesch

CHP Blog: Hollingworth Home Movie

In case you missed it yesterday, the Center for the History of Psychology (CHP) has posted on their blog a 8 minute clip of a home movie by psychologists Harry and Leta Stetter Hollingworth. The clip is narrated by CHP Reference Archivist Lizette Royer...

Published Thu, Nov 24 2011 9:50 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Video, Links, Center for the History of Psychology, Leta Stetter Hollingworth, Harry Hollingworth

New Talks! BPS Hist. of Psych. Seminar Series

As previously reported on AHP (here and here) the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, is putting on a fall seminar series. Two more...

Published Wed, Nov 23 2011 11:09 AM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Events, BPS, History of Psychology Centre, Völkerpsychologie, John Garth Wilkinson

New Issue: History of Medicine & Allied Sciences

The January 2012 issue of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences has just been released online. Included in this issue are a number of articles that may be of interest to historians of psychology and related fields. A special issue...

Published Sun, Nov 20 2011 9:09 PM by Advances in the History of Psychology

Filed under: General, Journals, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, shell shock, WWI, intellectual history, Germany, culture-bound syndrome, hypnosis, sexual inversion, koro