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After some years of practice, she returned to Smith College for training as psychiatric social worker. Although attracted to the thinking of Freud, Reynolds wasn’t happy with the development within social work that pathologized every problem, turning it into an individual issue, a personal problem. She saw more benefit in structural and institutional approaches combined with care for the individual. As such, she can be seen as one of the forerunners of what later became radical social work.

Insanity, philanthropy and emigration: dealing with insane children in late-nineteenth-century north-west England

Japanese psychoanalysis and Buddhism: the making of a relationship

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California

LoC | Dorthea Lange

Florence Thompson with three of her children in a photograph known as “Migrant Mother.”

Max Wertheimer, Habilitation candidate at the Frankfurt Psychological Institute.

Constructions of Childhood in Early Modern Jewish Ego-documents

1936 The dodo-bird and social work what matters? Interventions or common factors?

History of Social Work

Saul Rozenzweig introduced the hypothesis that effect of therapy should not be attributed to the specifics of a certain method, but to what all had in common, the so-called ‘common factors’.

Shifting boundaries between the normal and the pathological: the case of mild intellectual disability

You Can’t Pick Your Family: Celebrating Israeli Familism around the Seder Table

The politics of managerial reform in UK local government: a study of control, conflict and resistance 1880s to present

John Locke on madness: redressing the intellectualist bias

In Defence of White Australia: Discouraging ‘Asian Marriage’ in Postwar South-East Asia

Turning Men into Machines? Scientific Management, Industrial Psychology, and the Human Factor

Companions of Heart and Hearth: Hardship and the Changing Structure of the Family in Early Modern English Townships

Solidarity means inclusion: race, class, and ethnicity within Tampa’s transnational Cigar Workers’ Union

Building sanctuary: the movement to support Vietnam War resisters in Canada, 1965–1973

Protest, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s.

Who Was Little Albert? The Story Continues…

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John B Watson

Belonging in the Midwest: Norwegian Americans and the Process of Attachment, ca. 1830–1860

Chinese psychology archives in historical contexts

Resilience of institutional culture: mental nursing in a decade of radical change

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry

The NI Executive’s Inquiry and Investigation into historical institutional abuse will examine if there were systemic failings by institutions or the state in their duties towards those children in their care between the years of 1922-1995.

IFSW Historical Documents on Setting up the International Permanent Secretariat of Social Work in 1932

Left Activism, Succour and Selfhood: the epistolary friendship of two revolutionary mothers in 1970s Britain

Women, Marriage and Work in the British Diplomatic Service

Meeting The Beatles: what Beatlemania can tell us about West Germany in the 1960s

When West Germany “met” The Beatles, that encounter both resembled Beatlemania elsewhere and was inflected by specifically German contexts such as the Cold War division into East and West, the Nazi past, and the Economic Miracle.

Ideological dimensions of the “Balkan Family Pattern” in the first half of the 20th century

The Padded Cell

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As infamous as the Asylums themselves, the Padded Cell was an essential piece of equipment within the wards. They were a special room and it was not intended that patients were housed in them for long periods of time; it was used so that patients did not harm themselves when suffering from an epileptic or psychotic episode. Suicidal and violent patients were also placed within them.

“To Everything There Is a Season:” Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

Falconwood Site: 115 Murchison Lane, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, C1A, Canada

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Engraving of the former Falconwood Insane Asylum

Cold War Progressives: women’s interracial organizing for peace and freedom

‘No Suggestion of Suffragettism’: the Blue Blouses in Ireland, 1933–1936

Sir William Beveridge

Sir William Beveridge in 1943, when he was in Ottawa to testify before the House of Commons Special Committee on Social Security, which was planning for the future of Canadians after the Second World War.

Asylum Architecture: The Radial Plan

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Devon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Exeter

Making Modern Love: sexual narratives and identities in interwar Britain; LISA Z. SIGEL

Broca and Charcot’s Research on Jacques Inaudi: The Psychological and Anthropological Study of a Mental Calculator

In the nineteenth century, French scientific institutions became interested in young “mental calculators,” arithmetical prodigies able to quickly and accurately perform complex mental calculations. The first scientists to study mental calculators were phrenologists who sought to prove the existence of a calculating organ in the frontal lobe.