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)
National service in Britain: why men who served don’t think we should bring it back
A poster from the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Imperial War Museum
Power in psychiatry. Soviet peer and lay hierarchies in the context of political abuse of psychiatry
Uncommon Wealth—the toxic legacy of empire
The Empire Windrush ship
History and the psychoanalytic foundations of the Kestenberg Movement Profile
The History of Mental Health Policy
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
VirdiJaipreet, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 328 pp.
A Maine shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan feeds the poor
One of his aides told a reporter, “The Mayor proposes to find out if those elegant churches are only for show or for doing some real good.” They were for show…. The city’s wealthy families refused to contribute anything to the project.
Cowboy progressives
A Brief History of the Green New Deal (So Far)
History of Influenza Vaccination
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation
On Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates, by Erving Goffman
Account of the present state of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy
Hells Angels, Head Hunters and the Filthy Few: The History of Outlaw Bikers in Aotearoa New Zealand
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history
History of Psychiatric Hospitals
Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia, PA c. 1900
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s
Criticism as self-analysis
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing | A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums | 1890-1920
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential childcare, 1958–91
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital
Adaptation to the New Normal—Maternal Employment in the Framework of Psychosomatic and Stress Discourse in Finland from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
Building the Ancestral Public: Cemeteries and the Necropolitics of Property in Colonial Ghana
Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory
FossKatherine A., Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 232 pp.
Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Colonial Culture
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress
Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty‐First Century
Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850–1890s
Stories of change: the Social Work Oral History Institute
Just Like Any Other Worker? Class and Gender in the Regulation of Domestic Service in the Early Soviet Period
The politicization of girlhood: from the Gibson girl to the National Woman’s Party, 1895–1920
UNI professor’s research behind push to honor Black Chicago social services pioneer
The Courier | Courtesy photo
An undated picture of Ada S. McKinley from the website of Ada S. McKinley Community Services in Chicago.
Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon
The American Road: Highways and American Political Development, 1891–1956
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. By David Paul Kuhn
Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
History of school social work
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
A ‘forgettable minority’? Psychiatric Institutions and the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1965–84
Potions, pills, and patents: How basic healthcare became big business in America
The Family as a Locus of Illness: Secrecy, Suffering, and Institutional Practices
BASW Heritage Project Video
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons
