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The rise and fall of Katherine Blackford's character analysis. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Michael J Zickar
Dr. Katherine Blackford's writings on physiognomy-based character analysis were popular in the business community during the period roughly from 1914 to 1925. I document the rise of the Blackford System of character analysis and discuss how she gained influence in the business community. I outline how industrial psychologists collected data to disprove her theories and I argue that those efforts that
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Cortical localization and the nerve cell: Freud's work in Meynert's psychiatry clinic. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Matthew Perkins-McVey
Sigmund Freud's pioneering early work on individuated nerve cells, later termed "neurons," has long been recognized by the history of psychology. Yet, relatively little has been written about the influence of Freud's then mentor, Theodor Meynert, on Freud's 1884-1885 neuroanatomical research, or the monumental conceptual shift embodied in the project itself. Focusing on Freud's 1884 "Die Struktur der
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A pre-Darwinian account of the facial expression of emotion: Thomas Wright's The Passions of the Minde in Generall (1604). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Bradley J Irish
"The study of emotional expression," it has recently been said, "has long been the provenance of scientific discovery and heated controversy" (Keltner et al., 2016, p. 467)-and nothing has been more central to this inquiry than attempts to understand the precise connection between affective experience and human facial expression. But as science moves forward, it is also wise to consider where it has
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Jean Piaget and the autonomous disciples, Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder: From the "critical method" to the appropriation of research culture. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Marc J Ratcliff
The problems addressed in this article are the transition from the Piagetian clinical method to the so-called critical method, that is, the use of objects manipulated by both the experimenter and the child, and the study of the role of Piaget's female collaborators--in particular Alina Szeminska and Bärbel Inhelder--in the establishment of the critical method. Several authors suggested that Inhelder
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The totemic use of an author in psychology: A century of publications of the work of F. C. Bartlett. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Pauline Mercier,Nikos Kalampalikis
We have tried to retrace the contributions and dissemination of the work of the famous British psychologist F. C. Bartlett through various authors who have been inspired by his work, to a greater or lesser extent. To investigate these questions, we have chosen to carry out a bibliometric work. We were interested in the scientific articles available via the electronic library services (offered by the
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The racial economy of psychological care: Professionalism, social justice, and political action during american psychology's communitarian moment. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Michael Pettit
The 1960s and 1970s saw the overt "politicization" of the American Psychological Association as an organization. Politics in this context carried a dual meaning referring to both political lobbying to promote the interests of psychology as a health profession and grassroots political action to advance social justice causes. In the years between the passage of the Community Mental Health Act (1963)
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"Prototypic personality disorder" and the social issue: The category of psychopathy in Polish psychiatry in the interwar period. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Jan Kornaj
The category of psychopathy has a long history, and its meaning has undergone a notable evolution since its conception in the 19th century. The history of psychopathy has been concentrating mainly on English- and German-speaking psychopathology. This article investigates definitions of psychopathy, its classification, and social issues associated with this category in Polish psychiatry in the interwar
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Research note: Virtual historical archive of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Fedra Freijo Becchero,Lucía Rossi,Miguel Gallegos
This article describes the organization, operation, and contents of the Virtual Historical Archive of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The organization of this archive started in 2008, as part of the activities planned by the Chair II of History of Psychology, and gained the support of the Faculty of Psychology. From its beginnings to the present, several documentary
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Telling a scientific story and governing the population: The Kallikak story and the historical mutations of the eugenic discourse. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Thom Axelsson,Jonas Qvarsebo
In this article, we follow the trails of 20th-century psychologist Henry Herbert Goddard's influential study of the Kallikak family. Goddard's study is treated as a scientific story with two interlocking dimensions: One is the actual story of the Kallikak family, with literary elements such as setting, plot, and characters. The other dimension is the broader eugenic discourse, a powerful scientific
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William James's experience of presenting The Varieties of Religious Experience: His Gifford performance in historical context. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 John R Snarey,Joel McLendon
William James delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902, and his 20 lectures were published as The Varieties of Religious Experience. While the book is a classic in the psychology of religion, little to no attention has been given to the immediate context of James's lectures or his state of mind and perspectives during his delivery of each. This study
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Wilhelm Wundt: His bumpy start in science at the University of Tübingen. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Rolf Ulrich,Barbara Kaup
In 1851, Wilhelm Wundt embarked on his university journey at the University of Tübingen, initially enrolling as a medical student. This article draws from Wundt's autobiography and supplementary sources to illuminate the motivations behind his choice of Tübingen, shedding light on how this pivotal phase influenced both his scientific trajectory and his personal development. It offers insights into
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Integration as the goal of indigenization: The cross-cultural psychology of Durganand Sinha. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Matthew R McWhorter
Durganand Sinha (1922-1998) was an important Indian cross-cultural psychologist whose research spanned half a century. In commemoration of Sinha's passing 25 years ago, I explore in this essay his vision of the integration of Hindu religious psychology and Western scientific psychology. In the first part of the discussion, I consider a brief history of the interaction between Indian cultures and Western
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"I'm not a person anymore": The "survivor syndrome" and William G. Niederland's perception of the human being. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jonathan Zait
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and neurologist William Guglielmo Niederland (1904-1993) received widespread acclaim for his research on Holocaust survivors, yet his other psychoanalytic work has yet to achieve comparable recognition. In this article, I will examine the affinities between Niederland's study of the Holocaust survivors and other major works in his canon to demonstrate the cohesive nature
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Reconsidering the "Uznadze Effect" and psychology of set (Gantskoba) from a systemic cultural psychological perspective. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
This article aims to (re)introduce and further develop Dimitri Uznadze's theory of psychological "set" from the perspective of contemporary cultural psychology. His ideas are prominent in Georgia and other post-Soviet countries; however, they might be totally new for psychologists from other parts of the world. Uznadze, unlike Vygotksy, still awaits to be rediscovered. I discuss the main theoretical
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"My Opponent Prof. W.": The debate between Wilhelm Wundt and Adolf Horwicz in the beginning of physiological psychology (1872-1879). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Juan David Millán
Adolf Horwicz (1831-1894) was the main public critic of Wilhelm Wundt's election for the chair of philosophy at the Universität Leipzig in 1875. Horwicz's book titled Psychologische Analysen auf physiologischer Grundlage published in 1872 had a great impact on his contemporaries. Two years later, Wundt published Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie (1874) and with Horwicz's books were recognized
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Willard Stanton Small (1870-1943): The man who made the maze. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jarid Goodman
Willard Stanton Small (1870-1943) was among the earliest scientists to perform psychological research with rats and conducted the first experiment with a rat in a maze. This article represents the first biography devoted to Small and provides highlights from his childhood, undergraduate and graduate work, personal life, and professional career. Special attention is given to the events that led to the
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Magda Arnold's understanding of the human person: Thomistic personalism, psychophysical unity of the person, integration of personality, and transcendence. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Joaquín García-Alandete
Magda Arnold (1903-2002) is well known for her research on emotions, motivation, and memory from a neurological, physiological, and psychological point of view. However, her works in the field of the anthropological foundations of personality are less known and discussed. The present study presents some aspects of Arnold's conception of a human's nature as being based or convergent on Aquinas's doctrine:
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A war against the natural order: Joseph Nicolosi, Reparative Therapy, and the Christian Right. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Chris Babits
This article situates Joseph Nicolosi's first book, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality, in historical context. Nicolosi, a Catholic clinical psychologist, was one of the most vocal practitioners of sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) from the early 1990s until his death in 2017, and in these decades, the Christian Right became a key supporter of SOCE. In this article, I argue that two features
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Ten years of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Walter L Arias Gallegos,Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez,Nicole Oré-Kovacs
This article briefly reviews the development of the history of psychology as a specialized discipline in Peru, in order to learn about the emergence, organization and productivity of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology (SPHP), which was founded in 2012. Previously, by way of introduction, the advances in the institutionalization of the history of psychology in Latin America and the development
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"Mere guesswork": Clarifying the role of intelligence, mentality, and psychometric testing in the diagnosis of "mental defectives" for sterilization in Alberta from 1929 to 1972. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Elliott M Reichardt,Henderikus J Stam,Kim Tan-MacNeill
From 1929 until 1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board (the Board) recommended that 4,739 individuals be sterilized. The original 1928 act that legalized eugenic sterilization stipulated that the surgery itself required the consent of the individual or their caregiver; however, in 1937, the Alberta government removed the consent requirement for such cases where the Board determined individual patients to
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Intellectual aristocracy in the dawn of Argentine democracy: José Ingenieros on genius and mediocrity. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Victoria Molinari
This article explores how psychological categories linked to the mental level, such as genius, mediocrity, and intellectual superiority, were directly intertwined with political discourse in the early 20th century. To illustrate this, I analyze El Hombre Mediocre (The Mediocre Man) published in 1913 by José Ingenieros, seemingly as a direct critique of the law for free democratic elections in Argentina
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Archival oddities: Rosalie Rayner's application to take graduate classes. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ben Harris
In the history of psychology, Rosalie Rayner is known as a research assistant to behaviorist John B. Watson in the study of a baby named Albert, coauthor of articles describing that research, and coauthor of Psychological Care of Infant and Child. Rayner also wrote two magazine articles about her experience as a mother and the wife of Watson (Harris, 2014). Thanks to archivist James Stimpert, the author
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Reconstruction of Wilhelm Wundt's last residence in Saxony and the search for subsequent use as a research institute, fellowship house, or museum of psychotechnics. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Andreas Jüttemann
The German physiologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) is now recognized worldwide as the founding figure of academic psychology. He founded the first Institute for Experimental Psychology in Leipzig in 1879 and gained recognition during his lifetime. The scientist's last home in the small village of Großbothen in East Germany, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Berlin, was left to decay after German reunification
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Glimpses from the past: Michael Wertheimer dead at 95. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Lothar Spillmann
Michael was a historian by choice and calling, well-known for his Brief History of Psychology, which appeared in six editions. He also edited with Gregory Kimble a seven-volume series of Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology, an essential resource describing many of the illustrious ancestors of contemporary psychology. He was known for his long service to various professional associations, especially
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"Why should other people be the judge": The codification of assessment criteria for gender-affirming care, 1970s-1990s. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Elliot Marrow
In order to access gender-affirming care, transgender individuals were historically required by international guidelines to undergo mental health provider assessment (Coleman et al., 2012). This requirement for universal mental health provider involvement, initially formulated via professional expert opinion, has not been retained in the most recent World Professional Association for Transgender Health
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The long origins of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning style typology, 1921-2001. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Thomas Fallace
This study traces the long early history of the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (VAK) learning style typology. The VAK distinction and vocabulary originated with the psychology of mental imagery and word recall in the 1910s. It was further developed by researchers on remedial reading instruction for students with learning disabilities between the 1920s and 1950s, the teaching of urban youth in the
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The origins and development of Leopold Blaustein's descriptive psychology: An essay in the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Witold Płotka
This article critically analyzes the concept of descriptive psychology, which was used by Blaustein as part of his struggles with the Brentanian heritage which shaped the Lvov-Warsaw School. It is argued that because of his studies under the Gestaltists and Husserl, Blaustein was able to redefine the basics of Brentano's and Twardowski's projects of empirical and descriptive psychology. To show the
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From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s-1980s. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Lucie Gerber
This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this behavioral intervention into interindividual relations from its emergence as a treatment for anxiety in postwar United States to its importation into the French field
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Giving the history of psychology away in behavior analysis. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Edward K Morris,Cody Morris
Based on a symposium at the 2018 meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI; E. K. Morris, 2018), the December 2022 issue of Perspectives on Behavior Science (PoBS)-ABAI's house journal-published a special section on teaching the history of behavior analysis. It was inspired by George Miller's (1969) urging that psychologists promote human welfare by discovering how "to give
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Notes from the archives: Margaret Floy Washburn and her cats. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Rebecca Mitchell,Ben Harris
Margaret Floy Washburn was one of the leading psychologists of her generation, whose most important work was The Animal Mind (Goodman, 1980). As E. G. Boring noted, that text "reflected her own love of animals and her intense interest in their behavior" (1971, p. 547). What about the role of animals in Washburn's personal life? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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The objectivist critique of Hermann Helmholtz's theory of perception: The case of Ramón Turró (1854-1926). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Daniel López Sanz,Jorge Castro-Tejerina
In this article, we look into the development of the Helmholtz theory of perception in the light of Spanish biologist Ramón Turró's objectivist critique of the theory. In the first part, we explain the decisive role that Helmholtz's theory of perception played in the evolution of his own general philosophical stance. Through the work of Helmholtz, we show how the dialectic between philosophical surmises
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Charlotte Bühler and her emigration to the United States: A clarifying note regarding the loss of a professorship at Fordham University. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Wolfgang Schneider,Armin Stock
Although Charlotte Bühler (1893-1974) was one of the most prominent female psychologists during the first half of the last century, she never received a full professorship in a psychology department. In this paper, we discuss possible reasons for this failure and focus on problems related to an offer from Fordham University in 1938 that never materialized. Our analysis based on unpublished documents
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Reflections upon having been elected a fellow of APA. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Jeremy Trevelyan Burman
In this article, the author offers his reflections on being elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association as an historian of psychology. The author didn't start out as an historian. His bachelor and doctorate are both in psychology. But he did also certainly choose to leave psychology, then to return with a different perspective. So this election feels like an affirmation of that decision
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Psychological experiments on student self-government: The early impact of Wilhelm Mann's work in Chile and the German Empire. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Juan David Millán,Gonzalo Salas,Giuseppina Marsico
One of the most important successes in the history of psychology in Chile was the foundation in 1908 of the first experimental psychology laboratory in Santiago by the German psychologist Wilhelm Mann (1974-1943). Four years later, Mann give a shift to his classical experimental psychology research to intervene in the discussions about German School Reform (1900-1920). Mann used Chile as a "testing
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"That imperfect instrument": Galton's whistle, Bierce's damned thing, and the phenomenon of superior nonhuman sensory range. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Gregory Burton
When the Galton whistle was introduced in the 1870s, it was the first demonstration many had encountered of the phenomenon that nonhumans sometimes exceed humans in sensory range, for example perceiving ultraviolet light and ultrasonic signals. While some empirical research had explored this possibility beforehand, this area of perceptual research progressed slowly. A horror short story by Ambrose
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The degree course in psychology in Rome in the history of Italian psychology. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Giovanni Pietro Lombardo,Andrea Romano
Italian academic psychology found its first location in the Anthropological Museum of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Rome, where in 1890 a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology was established. In 1905, the first three Chairs of Experimental Psychology at the Universities of Turin, Rome, and Naples were created. These were followed in the subsequent years by others, until 1930
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Interamerican Society of Psychology (1951-2021): Its history and historians. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Miguel Gallegos,Viviane de Castro Pecanha
On December 17, 2021, The Interamerican Society of Psychology (ISP) celebrated its 70th anniversary. This article briefly describes ISP's history, discussing its organizational structure, and the contributions of the working group history of psychology, to honor this important event. The history of psychology division within ISP remains committed to facilitating encounters of Ibero American psychologists
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Anatol Rapoport's social responsibility: Science and antiwar activism; 1960-1970. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Shayne Sanscartier
Anatol Rapoport's decision to leave the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor has sometimes been portrayed as an act of protest against United States involvement in the Vietnam War. However, he personally viewed this decision as an "escape from responsibility" (Rapoport, 2000, pp. 145-147). This article reviews his writings before his departure to better understand why he decided to leave. Though he came
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Arthur Jensen, evolutionary biology, and racism. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 John P Jackson
Arthur R. Jensen (1923-2012) defended the idea that racial differences in intelligence were biologically based. He based his ideas on what he claimed were sound population genetics and evolutionary biology. Viewing his work through the lenses of those disciplines reveals that his arguments for biological racial differences did not meet the minimum evidentiary requirements needed to show that socially
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Rewriting Wundtian psychology: Luigi Credaro and the psychology in Rome. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 Renato Foschi,Andrea Romano
After Rome became the capital of Italy in 1871, prestigious scientists arrived at the University of Rome. One of these scholars was the pedagogical philosopher Luigi Credaro (1860-1939). He was one of the rare Italian students of Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) when he went to Leipzig and attended the Institute for Experimental Psychology in the academic year 1887-1888. There he also followed the pedagogical
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How did early North American clinical psychologists get their first personality test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry, and the development of the "Word Association Test" (1898-1909). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Catriel Fierro
Clinical psychology emerged in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century. Although they focused on intelligence tests, starting around 1905 certain clinical psychologists pursued personality assessment through a specific, nonintellectual kind of test: the word association test as devised by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in
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How statistics became a "forbidden trick" for Soviet psychologists. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Svetlana V Morozova
This study reconstructs the process by which quantitative methods were gradually displaced from Russian psychology in the early Soviet period. By the early 1930s, there was a decline in the importance of mathematical methods in psychological disciplines. It was accompanied by the rejection of some mathematical methods and the ideologization of the description of quantitative methodology. After the
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A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man: Claus, Darwin, and Sigmund Freud's search for the testes of the eel (1875-1877). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Matthew Perkins-McVey
In 1878, Sigmund Freud produced his first scientific publication while a medical student in Vienna, a physiological and histological analysis of Szymon Syrski's claim to have discovered the long-sought testes of the European eel. Though he would eventually come to be known as the father of psychoanalysis, a closer look at Freud's earliest scientific publication demonstrates that he was initially positioned
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"Um, mm-h, yeah": Carl Rogers, phonographic recordings, and the making of therapeutic listening. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Katja Guenther
Listening seems to be a simple and natural act. We sit back, look at the speaker, and take in what she says. And yet, we also know that good listening is a skill, an art, that if done correctly, can be transformative. This article looks into the history of listening as a therapeutic practice placing emphasis on the ways it has been shaped by media technologies. Sketching the development of the concept
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"Eugenics, social reform, and psychology: The careers of Isabelle Kendig": Correction to Harris (2021). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-17
Reports an error in "Eugenics, social reform, and psychology: The careers of Isabelle Kendig" by Ben Harris (History of Psychology, 2021[Nov], Vol 24[4], 350-376). In the article, multiple instances of "St. Elizabeths Hospital" were incorrectly changed to "St. Elizabeth's Hospital." The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record
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The quest for objectivity and measurements in phrenology's "bumpy" history. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Stanley Finger,Paul Eling
Phrenology is based on correlating character traits with visible or palpable cranial bumps (or depressions) thought to reflect underlying brain areas differing in size and levels of activity. Franz Joseph Gall, who introduced the doctrine during the 1790s, relied heavily on seeing and feeling skulls when he formulated his theory, as did Johann Spurzheim, who served as his assistant until 1813 and then
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Archival oddities: The manifesto of the upper left hand corner club. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Ben Harris
Forty-two years ago, a small group within the Cheiron Society formed a dissident caucus, the Upper Left Hand Corner Club (ULHCC). The founding document, preserved in an old file folder, featured a diagram of the place of the history of psychology in relation to other fields, such as social history and the history of ideas. The goal of the caucus was to move the history of psychology to the upper left-hand
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Review of Max Wertheimer, Productive thinking. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Mitchell G Ash
Reviews the book, Max Wertheimer, Productive Thinking by Viktor Sarris (2020). This volume contains a reproduction of the original edition of Max Wertheimer's study of productive thinking, published posthumously in 1945, with a brief preface and a more extensive introduction by Viktor Sarris, Professor Emeritus of General Psychology and former holder of the Max Wertheimer Chair at the Johann Wolfgang
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Society for the History of Psychology news and notes. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Stephan Bonfield
Article presents 2021 Society for the History of Psychology award winners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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A neglected and forgotten episode of Nazi Race Psychology in Occupied Poland: A critical analysis by T. Tomaszewski (1945). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Wojciech Pisula,Hanna Mamzer,Jacek Mirecki,Reinhard Lauterbach,Dariusz Doliński
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis used science as a tool for shaping state policy. One of the most abhorrent aspects of scientific collaboration with the Nazis at that time was the broadly defined field of "race psychology." In this article, we focus on German comparative research on the psychology of Poles and Germans, as analyzed by Tadeusz Tomaszewski, who is considered to be one of the founders
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When Rollo May's "little band" of New York psychologists fought back against organized medicine's attempts to control psychotherapy. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 James Schlett
At a time when New York was best positioned to influence the development of the profession of psychology in the mid-twentieth century, efforts to pass licensing or certification in Albany floundered for more than 15 years due to opposition from physicians and psychiatrists. That changed when Rollo May emerged as the leader of New York psychologists' lobbying effort in 1952, and he turned their losing
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Psychology as if the whole earth mattered: Nuclear threat, environmental crisis, and the emergence of planetary psychology. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 James Dunk
This article traces a genealogy for the various strands of contemporary psychology which are concerned with global environmental change, including conservation psychology, ecopsychology, and other subfields and interdisciplinary concentrations. Focusing on a network of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other researchers based at a research center founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1982, the article
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Problems and possibilities concerning the concept of psychoanalytic pedagogy in the light of the work of Susan Isaacs in the malting house school. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Dóra Szabó
In the first decades of the 20th century, high hopes were raised of the adaptability of psychoanalysis into the pedagogical field. According to this new discourse, the possibilities of educational application became one of the most important research areas within the psychoanalytical community. However, several definitional and technical questions have remained unexplained. The aim of this article
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Italy and "the problem of the unconscious": The first Italian translation of a book by C. G. Jung. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Matteo Fiorani,Marco Innamorati
Il problema dell'inconscio nella psicologia moderna [The problem of the unconscious in modern psychology], published in 1942, was the first of Jung's books translated into Italian. The original German title was Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart [Soul's problems of the future], a collection of previously-issued short essays. The present paper reconstructs the story of how the book was chosen and eventually
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Reconstructing the history of emotions: Revisiting Elizabeth Duffy's rejection of the term "emotion". History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Elizabeth Johnston,Mary Vitello
A frequently recounted narrative about the history of the scientific study of emotion moves quickly from the 19th century pioneers, Charles Darwin and William James, to the 1960s when the cognitive turn and basic emotions approach reemerged. The early-to-mid 20th century is often passed over as a period of behaviorist domination where little substantive work on inner states such as emotion took place
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Psychology of eyewitness testimony in Germany in the 20th century. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Siegfried Ludwig Sporer,Mauro Antonelli
The history of the psychology of eyewitness testimony cannot be adequately understood without taking the respective legal systems, that is inquisitorial versus adversarial system, into account. Across all periods, questions regarding the accuracy of testimony, its suggestibility, and intentional distortions in false accusations become apparent. We describe the history of the experimental psychology
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The reception of psychodrama in Spain: Correspondence between Jacob Levy Moreno and Ramón Sarró. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Silvia Lévy,Miguel Huertas-Maestro,Rafael Huertas
Jacob Levy Moreno, the well-known creator of psychodrama, had a close epistolary relationship with the Spanish psychiatrist Ramón Sarró; a collection of these letters has been located in the Sarró personal archive, deposited in the Library of Catalonia. After locating and arranging this correspondence, we proceeded to analyze and contextualize its contents. The analysis of this collection serves as
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Eugenics, social reform, and psychology: The careers of Isabelle Kendig. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Ben Harris
The psychologist Isabelle Kendig had two careers before earning her doctorate and rising to the position of chief psychologist at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC. She began as a eugenic field worker in 1912, focusing on Shutesbury, Massachusetts, where she administered intelligence tests to the locals, collected gossip about their character, and created genealogical charts. When she presented
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"A backdrop for psychotherapy": Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University's Teachers College (1924-1935). History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Catriel Fierro
Carl Rogers' work in clinical psychology and psychotherapy has been as influential as it is vast and varied. However, as a topic of historical inquiry Rogers' approach to clinical psychology is beset by historiographical lacunae. Especially vague have been Rogers' own reflections about his student years (1925-1928) at Columbia University's Teachers College. Rogers claimed that he received the "backdrop"
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Adolphe Quetelet and the legacy of the "average man" in psychology. History of Psychology (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Donna Tafreshi
Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian polymath who aimed to advance aggregate-level statistical tools as a unifying framework for all scientific disciplines. In doing so, Quetelet adopted the astronomer's Law of Error (i.e., the normal distribution curve) and applied it to the study of moral and social phenomena in developing his notion of physique sociale (social physics). Quetelet further focused his attention