As recently announced on AHP, a new book by historian of psychology, and magician, Peter Lamont has just been released. AHP had the pleasure of interviewing Lamont about his new book: Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem. The full interview follows below. AHP: How did you become interested in the history of extraordinary [...]
Share on FacebookThe April 2013 issue of the journal History of the Human Sciences is now online. Included in these issue are seven all new articles on topics that include the history of psychiatric ideas about self-harm, madness and the brain, and early British and American sociology. Full titles, authors, and abstracts follow below. “Religion, polygenism and [...]
Share on FacebookThose interested in the history of psychology in France will find the websites created by Serge Nicholas (left), dedicated to prominent early French psychologists, invaluable resources. Together with Bernard Andrieu, Nicholas has put together a website dedicated to the life and work of Alfred Binet. Although best known for his development of the intelligence test, [...]
Share on FacebookCheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has issued a call for papers for its 2013 conference. The 45th annual meeting of Cheiron will take place June 20th to 23rd, 2013 at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. Submissions are due January 15, 2013. The full call for papers [...]
Share on FacebookThe European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS) has issued a call for papers for its summer 2013 conference. The conference will be held at Adolf-Würth-Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Würzburg from July 30th to August 2nd, 2013. Submissions are due by March 31st, 2013. The full [...]
Share on FacebookA website chronicling the history of the Devon County Mental Hospital (formerly the Devon County Lunatic Asylum) at Exminster has recently launched. The site is an outgrowth of a series of projects undertaken by Nicole Baur and Jo Melling at the Exeter Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, along with John Draisey of [...]
Share on FacebookAs many AHP readers might know, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) hosts a free online screening room with nearly 1500 film clips, documentaries, animations, experimental films, and fictional films. A colleague recently directed me to a 2002 film by Canadian filmmaker Connie Littlefield that may be of interest to some AHP readers. Hoffmann’s [...]
Share on FacebookThis post is written by Alexandra Rutherford, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. I have included four sections in this reading list. All are limited to the North American context. The first section includes works that review and/or historically analyze the history of [...]
Share on FacebookThis post is written by Laura C. Ball, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. This list represents, to me, some of the most integral works on the study of genius in psychology. Based on my readings for my MA thesis (and now my [...]
Share on FacebookThis post is written by Arlie Belliveau, York University and is part of a special series of bibliographies on topics in the history of psychology. For an overall history and discussion of psychological films I suggest the following reading list: 1. Beck, L.F. (1938). A review of sixteen-millimeter films in psychology and allied sciences. Psychological [...]
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