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The next presentation as part of British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL’s Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series will take place in...
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Happy Holidays from all of us at AHP! (And, of course, from Santa Claus – AKA psychologist E. G. Boring – at Harvard’s 1940 Christmas party.) *Images via the Center for the History of Psychology blog. Read More...
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AHP readers may be interested in a recent post by Efram Sera-Shriar on Dissertation Reviews that details his efforts to recreate the kind of anthropological – and more particularly anthropometric – data collection practices at use in the late...
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The AHP Blog is taking its annual summer vacation since our bloggers are off to conferences, archives, and even an internship this summer. Who knows, some of us may even make it to the lake for a day or two. As always, AHP will return in September with...
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This is a special post being co-authored by Jeremy Burman and Jennifer Bazar. It is being co-hosted at both the Advances in the History of Psychology (AHP) and FieldNotes blogs. On Thursday we were given a unique opportunity to tour the interior of the...
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Over the next several weeks, AHP will be featuring guest posts on selected bibliographies on a number of topics within the history of psychology. These bibliographies, first published several years ago on the website of the now defunct History and Theory...
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As we come to the end of 2010, AHP would like to take a moment to mark a milestone in efforts to preserve psychology’s past. On September 1, 2010 the new Center for the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio opened its doors. This Center houses both...
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Adrian Brock of University College Dublin has set up a website full of the writings of the noted historian of psychology Kurt Danziger. Though he is now long-retired from York University (Toronto), and is no longer attending conferences, Danziger has...
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The petition reads:
On March 31st the Wellcome Trust and UCL [University College London] announced the closure of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. This decision came in the middle of negotiations concerning the normal quinquennial...
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The preserved brain of early psychologist Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-1927) is currently on display as part of Cornell University’s Wilder Brain Collection. Titchener, a British citizen who completed his doctorate in psychology with Wilhelm...
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The Time Capsule section of the latest issue of the APA Monitor in Psychology includes an article on the history of psychoanalysis and consumerism. The article, “Psychoanalysis shapes consumer culture: Or how Sigmund Freud, his nephew and a box...
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The University of Turin has a Museum of Criminal Anthropology that features collections related to the famous turn-of-the-century thinker Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso was particularly well-known for his work on the physical defects that were putatively associated...
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As another week comes to an end, a ”lighter” post seems appropriate on a Friday:
You may have come across images of knitted brains in your inboxes, but did you know that there exists a Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art?
The...