History (4,555 posts)

The Art of the Poor: The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600

Mother-Infant Interaction (New York University, 1967)

Real and Imagined Encounters in the Social History of Surveillance: Soviet Migrants and the Petrov Affair

Out in the Street

The Baffler | T Hsieh

Poster for One Year Performance 1981-1982.

Chain of Care (Mental Health Film Board, 1962)

Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland

No Medical Justification: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Psychiatric Hospitals, 1952–1972

Managing Chineseness: neurasthenia and psychiatry in Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century

History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
The present study investigates the role of Taiwanese psychiatrists in turning neurasthenia into a culture-specific disease in the late twentieth century. It first delineates the shift in both explanatory models of psychoneuroses and patient population in post-World War II Taiwan. Neurasthenia became a focus of international attention in the 1970s and 1980s with the advance of cultural psychiatry, and, as China was closed to the outside world, Taiwanese psychiatrists were influential in framing the cultural meaning of neurasthenia. With the rise of post-socialist China, Taiwan lost its status as a key laboratory of Chinese studies. This paper argues that the history of neurasthenia during the period was closely associated with the professional development and national identity of Taiwanese psychiatrists.

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Psychoanalysis and Society’s Neglect of Sexual Abuse of Children and Young Adults: Re‐addressing Freud’s Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and Trauma

Miracles of Healing: Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth-Century Scotland

The conundrum of the psychological interface: On the problems of bridging the biological and the social

The Model of the Observation and Treatment Hospital, and the Debate on ‘Open’ Services in France at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Example of the Esquermes Psychiatric Hospital

“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm

Women’s Activist Organizing in US History

Composing Well-being: Mental Health and the Mass Observation Project in Twentieth-Century Britain

Reflections from Pioneering Women in Psychology

Protecting ‘injured female innocence’ or furthering ‘the rights of women?’ The sexual Slander of Women in New York and Victoria (1808–1887)

Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher Gerteis

Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes. By Nayan Shah

The British journal of learning disabilities: A history

Psychological anthropology and medical anthropology: a brief history of ideas and concepts

When Right-Wing Attacks on School Textbooks Fell Short

William F. Buckley Jr., pictured here in 1958, once joined other conservatives in denouncing “Communism” in the schools.

The Other Little House: The Brothel as a Colonial Institution on the Canadian Prairies, 1880–93

Breakfast with the Panthers

Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report

Lubken, Walter J. (n.d.). Photograph of young female students standing next to made beds at the Phoenix Indian Industrial School. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

From ‘Immoral’ Users to ‘Sunbed Addicts’: The Media–Medical Pathologising of Working-class Consumers and Young Women in Late Twentieth-century England

Exploring History Through a Social Work Lens: A conversation with author Kathleen Earle Fox

On the History of Single-Case Methodology: A Data-Based Analysis

San Francisco’s Chinatown | Plague at the Golden Gate

Tracing the portrayal of mental disorders in literature over time, through five books

Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence

The Emergence of Psychiatry: 1650–1850

For Ontario’s political establishment, cutting ‘welfare dependence’ means making the poor desperate

Protestors rally in downtown Toronto against the Mike Harris government, which slashed social assistance rates by 21.6 percent in the mid-1990s.

Progressives and Prison Labor: Rebuilding Ohio’s National Road during World War I

The Cult of Youth: Anti-Ageing in Modern Britain

How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories. By Gabriel J. Loiacono

Public toilets for women: how female municipal councillors expanded the right to the city in Sweden, c. 1910–1925

The Historical Use of Restraints in Asylums

Developed by Dr. Benjamin Rush, the spinning tranquilizing chair required patients to be strapped in and with their eyes covered while the chair spun around in a circle. Based, in part, on the rotational theory, it was believed that spinning the patient in a controlled environment would help to reduce or eliminate congestion within the brain and, thus, curing mental illness.

The History of Bookmobiles

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Crying for Flicka: Boys, Young Men, and Emotion at the Cinema in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s

Eugenics and photography in Britain, the USA and Australia 1870–1940

Harry Harlow’s pit of despair: Depression in monkeys and men

An Indigenous peoples’ history of the United States for young people

Kinder trespass — how class struggle won the right to ramble

On 24 April 1932, 500 young men and women participated in direct action to reclaim Kinder Scout in Derbyshire for the people. The trespass paved the way for legal changes that opened up swathes of land for ordinary people to enjoy, including the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act.

Psychology of eyewitness testimony in Germany in the 20th century.

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 of testimony in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the time after the second world war. Louis William Stern and Otto Lipmann conceived and established a broad conception of Aussagepsychologie (psychology of report), attracting the collaboration of lawyers, pedagogues, and scholars from other disciplines to conduct laboratory and staged event experiments. They were successful in institutionalizing psychology and law by organizing interdisciplinary conferences, founding a journal, and testifying as experts in court. When appearing as experts, they encountered strong rivalry from psychiatrists. We also sketch some of the problems psychologists in Germany faced during the second world war. In our discussion, we stress the importance of legal, contextual, and sociocultural factors affecting both research outcomes and expert testimony, which appear to be parallel to present-day concerns. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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