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Hannah S. Decker. The Making of DSM‐III: A Diagnostic Manual's Conquest of American Psychiatry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 466 pp. $58.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9780195382235
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rebecca Godderis Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Kris Manjapra. Age of Enlightenment: German and Indian Intellectuals across Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 442 pp. $49.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 97806744725140.
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Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 7, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeff Bowersox Tags: Book Review Source Type: research

Reestablishing “the social” in research on democratic processes: mid‐century voter studies and paul f. lazarsfeld's alternative vision
This article argues that the Columbia and Michigan voter studies presented two visions for research on democracy. Where the Michigan research produced quantitative measures expressing the ‘political behavior’ of the electorate, the Columbia studies, and especially Paul F. Lazarsfeld, presented an alternative vision for qualitative research on political choice. Largely ignored by later voter studies, this vision prefigured much contemporary research on democracy that embraces a qualitative or interpretive approach. This article reconstructs Lazarsfeld's alternative vision, describes the institutional context in which sc...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Michael Christensen Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Ainsworth's strange situation procedure: the origin of an instrument
The American‐Canadian psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999) developed the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to measure mother‐child attachment and attachment theorists have used it ever since. When Ainsworth published the first results of the SSP in 1969, it seemed a completely novel and unique instrument. However, in this paper we will show that the SSP had many precursors and that the road to such an instrument was long and winding. Our analysis of hitherto little‐known studies on children in strange situations allowed us to compare these earlier attempts with the SSP. We argue that it was the combination of Ai...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lenny Rosmalen, René Veer, Frank Horst Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Psychology in french academic publishing in the late nineteenth century: alfred binet, editorial director at the schleicher publishing house
To date, historians of psychology have largely ignored the role of academic publishing and the editorial policies of the late nineteenth century. This paper analyzes the role played by academic publishing in the history of psychology in the specific case of France, a country that provides a very interesting and unique model. Up until the middle of the 1890s, there was no collection specifically dedicated to psychology. Alfred Binet was the first to found, in 1897, a collection of works specifically dedicated to scientific psychology. He chose to work with Reinwald‐Schleicher. However, Binet was soon confronted with (1) c...
Source: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences - April 1, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Serge Nicolas Tags: Original Article Source Type: research