The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
Italy and “the problem of the unconscious”: The first Italian translation of a book by C. G. Jung.
Il problema dell’inconscio nella psicologia moderna [The problem of the unconscious in modern psychology], published in 1942, was the first of Jung’s books translated into Italian. The original German title was Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart [Soul’s problems of the future], a collection of previously-issued short essays. The present paper reconstructs the story of how the book was chosen and eventually published, describing the historical and personal context surrounding the protagonists (translators and publisher) of the volume. The political and cultural situation of the time in Italy is presented: the country was dominated by Catholic culture and Idealism, both obstacles to the spread of psychology. The condition of Italy is compared with that of Germany with respect to the possibility of Freud’s and Jung’s ideas circulating. Then the paper describes the specific context in which Giovanni Bollea, who had the idea of translating Jung’s book in Italy, worked. The role of Bollea’s wife, Renata Jesi, is also highlighted. Bollea’s relationship with the Einaudi publishing house and with Jung is also explained. Finally, an attempt is made to show the relevance of this episode in the history of Italian culture and its consequences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
The Richer, The Poorer How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History
This landmark book charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor, and the mechanisms that link them. Stewart Lansley examines the ideological rifts that have driven society back to the divisions of the past and asks why rich and poor citizens are still judged by very different standards.
“A backdrop for psychotherapy”: Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1924–1935).
Appetite and its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750‐1950
In the Struggle Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California
Standards of Care: Uncertainty and Risk in Harry Benjamin’s Transsexual Classifications
Older people in hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Australia, 1849–1905
Policing Suspicion: Proactive Policing in London, 1780-1850
Solidarity and Class War meet uptown – Andy Brown
Alice Paul (1885-1977)
LoC | Women of Protest
While studying and doing social work in England, Paul learned firsthand the confrontational tactics and civil disobedience used by the militant wing of the British suffrage movement. She participated in demonstrations and was jailed for her suffrage activity in London.
History Of The Fabian Society
Internet Archive | ER Pease
History of Psychology in Latin America: A Cultural Approach
Back Issues: Single mothers’ group newsletters from 1970s offer insight into struggles
Institutionalizing gender: Madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth‐century France Jessie Hewitt Cornell University Press, 2020. 252 pp. Open access (ebook). ISBN 9781501753329; 9781501753312 (paper)
Welfare dependency: the history of an idea
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
Shock therapies in Spain (1939–1952) after the Civil War: Santa Isabel National Mental Asylum in Leganés
Book Review: Men Out of Focus: The Soviet Masculinity Crisis in the Long Sixties by Marko Dumančić
Psychoanalysis and anti-racism in mid-20th-century America: An alternative angle of vision
The War on Drugs: A History
Languages of Trauma: History, Memory and Media
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
From talking cure to play- and group-therapy: outpatient mental health care for children in the Netherlands c. 1945–70
The Little Canadas of New England
New England Historical Society
The most famous Franco-American author, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac or Jack Kerouac, was born in Lowell’s Little Canada.
The Evolution of Income Composition Inequality in Italy, 1989–2016
Celebrating 20 Years of CDC’s Alcohol Program
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict Over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963
Polio Vaccine Struggles: FAIR and the Failed Reintroduction of Inactivated Polio Vaccine, 1975–1985
The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties. By Eric Zolov
This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010
90 Years of History: ICSW at the Forefront of Conceptual Thinking Social Practice & Transnational Advocacy
“We Were Alive and Life Was Us.” How Ken Kesey Created LSD Subculture
Stewick House, a former Famine workhouse on a hillock near Askeaton
P Comerford
At the height of the Great Famine of 1845-1849, the Poor Law Commissioners leased Stewick House and 10 acres, including the out-offices, from George and Laura Hewson in 1848 at annual rent of £75.
Brewers, Booze and Medicine: Industrial Funding of Alcoholic Liver Disease Research in 1980s Britain
Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement We’ve Come Further Than You Think
The Poor Law Unions Gazette
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
Administrations of lunacy: Racism and the haunting of American psychiatry at Milledgeville Asylum
A hundred years later, Family & Children Services still fighting same problems in Tulsa
In 1925, Family & Children’s Services original board member Waite Phillips donated the building at 6th and Cheyenne to the Tulsa Community Chest (Tulsa Area United Way). Family & Children’s Service moved into the building with the Community Chest and started providing services from that location.
Hometown asylum: A history and memoir of institutional care
The welfare state in Canada
Unemployment victims during the Depression resorted to the soup kitchens like this one in Montreal in 1931, operated by voluntary and church organizations. After a meal, most people returned to the alleyways, parks, or flop-houses for the night.
Acid revival: The psychedelic renaissance and the quest for medical legitimacy
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. By Paul Conrad
SIU’s Social Work Program celebrates 50th anniversary
In the beginning – The School of Social Work is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Launched during the 1970-71 school year, the program’s home was Quigley Hall until moving to Pulliam Hall in 2014.
Beauty and Power: Beauticians, the Highlander Folk School, and Women’s Professional Networks in the Civil Rights Movement
Child prodigies in Paris in the belle époque: Between child stars and psychological subjects.
This article considers the double role of child prodigies as child stars and psychological subjects in Paris in the Belle Époque. I argue that the celebrity status of child prodigies during this time contributed to their transformation into objects of scientific curiosity. The notions of innate talent and natural-born genius contributed heavily to stories of child prodigies within the public sphere; these stories also circulated in psychological accounts of such children. To illustrate this, I examine the case of Pepito Arriola, the so-called Spanish Mozart, in more detail. This musical prodigy toured Europe and America during the early 20th century, and when he was 3- and one-half years old, Charles Richet presented him at the Fourth International Psychology Congress (1900) in Paris. Arriola became the first virtuoso to be submitted to psychological examination, and he was subsequently examined in Berlin by the psychologist Carl Stumpf. This closer look at Pepito Arriola’s case clarifies how popular culture and scientific research interacted in the making of a prodigy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Janabai and Gangakhed of Das Ganu: Towards ethnic unity and religious cohesion in a time of transition
The Indian Economic &Social History Review, Ahead of Print.
The Varkari tradition of the Marathi-language area of Western India is characterised by devotion to the god Vitthal of Pandharpur as well as the medieval saint-poets who praised him in songs and longed for his company. Modern narratives present Janabai, a poetess who lived presumably during the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries, as one of the Varkari saint-poets. Her rise to fame started in the last decade of the nineteenth century, and by the 1920s, although of obscure origin, she had been geographically pinned to Gangakhed on the Godavari River. The association with this tiny settlement in Marathwada was established by the famous Das Ganu, an itinerant minstrel and preacher. Janabai’s own celebrity reached its peak by the 1960s, when a sign of sanctity in the form of symbolic sandals was installed at the site which went on to become her temple in Gangakhed. In 1975 a new procession, that of Saint Janabai, was added to the list of more than 100 processions travelling at the same time each year to Pandharpur. This article looks into the process of nationalist ‘awakening’ and the manner in which fostering bonds of ethnic unity and religious cohesion have been essential for shaping shared identity. The Varkari tradition and its poets, including Janabai, became the main tools for the creation of a Marathi-language cultural environment and for the domestication of the terrain by and through the power of comprehensible Hindu symbols.