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“propagandists for the behavioral sciences”: the overlooked partnership between the carnegie corporation and ssrc in the mid‐twentieth century
The Carnegie Corporation's role as a patron of the behavioral sciences has been overlooked; its support for the behavioral sciences not only began earlier than the Ford Foundation's but was also at least equally important to their success. I show how the close postwar collaboration between the Carnegie Corporation and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to promote the behavioral sciences emerged after a strugglebetween Carnegie and the Rockefeller Foundation over the direction and leadership of the SSRC. I then focus on three postwar projects Carnegie helped conceive and fund that were publicized as the work of the ...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: EMILY HAUPTMANN Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Blots and all: a history of the rorschach ink blot test in britain
Despite the easily recognizable nature of the Rorschach ink blot test very little is known about the history of the test in Britain. We attend to the oft‐ignored history of the Rorschach test in Britain and compare it to its history in the US. Prior to the Second World War, Rorschach testing in Britain had attracted advocates and critiques. Afterward, the British Rorschach Forum, a network with a high proportion of women, developed around the Tavistock Institute in London and The Rorschach Newsletter. In 1968, the International Rorschach Congress was held in London but soon after the group became less exclusive, and fell...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: KATHERINE HUBBARD, PETER HEGARTY Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

“my resisting getting well”: neurasthenia and subconscious conflict in patient‐psychiatrist interactions in prewar america
This study examines experiences of individual patients and psychiatrists in the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins between 1913 and 1917. The dynamics of these patient‐psychiatrist interactions elucidate the well‐known conceptual shift in explanations of mental illness during the twentieth century, from somatic models rooted in the logic of “neurasthenia” and damaged nerves to psychodynamic models based on the notion of “subconscious conflict.” A qualitative analysis of 336 cases categorized as functional disorders (a catchall term in this period for illnesses that could not be confirmed as organi...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: SUSAN LAMB Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

V. m. bekhterev in russian child science, 1900s–1920s: “objective psychology”/“reflexology” as a scientific movement
This article discusses the role played in child science by the eminent Russian neurologist and psychiatrist Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev. The latter's name is associated with a distinctive program for transforming the human sciences in general and psychology in particular that he in the 1900s labelled “objective psychology” and from the 1910s renamed “reflexology.” The article examines the equivocal place that Bekhterev's “objective psychology” and “reflexology” occupied in Russian/Soviet child science in the first three decades of the 20th century. While Bekhterev's prominence in this field is beyond do...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: ANDY BYFORD Tags: Research Article Source Type: research

Issue Information‐TOC
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - January 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information ‐TOC Source Type: research

Franz samelson as the gentle agent sent to punish the sin of pride
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 11, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John C. Burnham Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Continuity and discontinuity in the biography of franz samelson
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - December 11, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: LORENZ J. FINISON Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

LAUNCHING A CAREER IN PSYCHOLOGY WITH ACHIEVEMENT AND ARROGANCE: JAMES McKEEN CATTELL AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1882–1883
This article opens by sketching the scope of Cattell's lifetime achievement and then briefly reviews the historical attention that his life and career has attracted during the past few decades. It then outlines the origins and evolution of Cattell's “scientific ideology,” traces the course of events that led to his fellowship, reviews his earliest studies at Johns Hopkins, and analyzes in some detail his initial laboratory successes. These laid the groundwork for his later distinguished work as a psychological experimentalist, both in Europe and America. It concludes, however, that even as Cattell's early experimental ...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - November 26, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: MICHAEL M. SOKAL Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

News & notes—fall 2015
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: News and Notes Source Type: research

Fhhs news
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: FHHS News Source Type: research

Joint meeting
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Joint Meeting Source Type: research

Report of the 47th annual meeting of cheiron: the international society for the history of the behavioral and social sciences
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research

Aaron Panofsky. Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 320 pp. $27.50 (Paper). ISBN: 9780226058450.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah S. Richardson Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Grace Davie. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 341 pp. $99.00. ISBN: 9780521198752.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wahbie Long Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Kate Schechter. Illusions of a Future: Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2014. 276 pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐5721‐6.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - October 6, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Julia Gruson‐Wood Tags: Book Review Source Type: research