Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Elements of a counter‐exhibition: Excavating and countering a Canadian history and legacy of eugenics16
Social sciences, modernization, and late colonialism: The Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa6
Epilepsy, violence, and crime. A historical analysis6
Energy in the Anthropocene: How the concept of energy shaped both our current crisis and its professed solution5
“Never sacrifice anything to laboratory work”: The “physiological psychology” of Charles Richet (1875–1905)5
Do your first works over4
Visual art history and the psychology of perception: Perspectivism and its 20th century abandonment in the visual arts and in Gibson's ecological psychology4
Psychology qua psychoanalysis in Argentina: Some historical origins of a philosophical problem (1942–1964)3
Doing history that matters: Going public and activating voices as a form of historical activism3
The (d)evolution of a technological species: A history and critique of ecopsychology's constructions of science and technology3
Psychologization in and through the women's movement: A transnational history of the psychologization of consciousness‐raising in the German‐speaking countries and the United States3
Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behavior therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s–1990s3
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology3
More questions than answers: Interrogating restricted access in the archives3
Seeking double personality: Nakamura Kokyō's work in abnormal psychology in early 20th‐century Japan3
Social protest photography and public history: “Whose streets? Our streets!”: New York City, 1980–20003
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia: New directions2
Franz Joseph Gall on God and religion: “Dieu et Cerveau, rien que Dieu et cerveau!”2
“That future age of which we can only dream”: Exploring the origins of the climate crisis in the Story of Progress2
Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany2
Why psychiatry might cooperate with religion: The Michigan Society of Pastoral Care, 1945–19682
Excursions in Rorschachlandia: Surveying the scientific and philosophical landscape of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics2
Spitting on my sources: Depression, DNA, and the ambivalent historian2
Psychological research and practice in former Yugoslavia and its successors2
Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training2
Epistemics of the soul: Epistemic logics in German 18th‐century empirical psychology2
Technoscientific control of nature: The ultimate paradox2
A useful science: Criminal interrogation and the turn to psychology in Germany around 18002
Of visceral/somatic practices in healing1
The Hirschfeld horoscope: Archival trails and urban subcultures1
Kiær and the rebirth of the representative method: A case‐study in controversy management at the International Statistical Institute (1895–1903)1
Diagnosing the “master mechanism of the universe” in interwar and war‐era America1
The last man takes LSD: Foucault and the end of revolution.MitchellDean and DanielZamoraVerso, 2021, 256 pp., $26.95 cloth. ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐83976‐139‐3; 978‐1‐83976‐140‐9 (ebook)1
The creation of scientific psychologyDavid J.MurrayNew York and London: Routledge, 2021. 226 pp. £120.00 (hardcover). ISBN 9781138658158.1
‘Aṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle EastJoelle M.Abi‐Rached. Series: Culture and Psychiatry. MIT Press, 2020. 344 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780262044745.1
The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention. Contributions of the Second World War Generation. Richard E. Tremblay Cambridge University Press, 2021. 388 pp. $110 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1‐1081
Signposts to decolonial futures in understanding and addressing our present crises1
Expelled from Eden: How human beings turned planet Earth into a hostile place1
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth‐Century British Psychiatry Åsa Jansson Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 234 pp. Open access (ebo1
Acid revival: The psychedelic renaissance and the quest for medical legitimacyDanielle GiffortUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2020, 256 pp. $100.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781517906719; 9781517906726 (paper).1
Experiments of the mind: From the cognitive psychology lab to the world of Facebook and Twitter, EmilyMartin.: Princeton University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 97806911773111
The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories. Christopher M. Kelty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, $35.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0226666761.1
The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900–19201
Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)1
Institutionalizing gender: Madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth‐century FranceJessieHewittCornell University Press, 2020. 252 pp. Open access (ebook). ISBN 9781501753329; 9781501751
Reappraisal Review: Rudolph Hermann Lotze: Medicinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der SeeleNikolayMilkov (Ed.) Series: Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft. Springer, 2021. 708 pp. $69.99 (paper). ISB1
Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s1
Civilian lunatic asylums during the First World War: A study of austerity on London's fringe, Claire HiltonPalgrave Macmillan, 2021. 294 pp. 59,99€ (cloth). ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐54870‐4; 978‐3‐030‐54873‐5 1
Frontier Struggles: Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism James Schlett Series: Center for the History of Psychology. University of Akron Press, 2021. 228 pp. $59.95 (paper1
In the Public Good: Eugenics and Law in OntarioC.Elizabeth KoesterSeries: McGill‐Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society. McGill‐Queen's University 1
The last archive. A podcast series. Jill Lepore. Pushkin Industries, 2020.1
Reconsidering Max Weber's journey to the United States: Sociological connections between race relations and American capitalism1
Turning archival: The life of the historical in queer studies, DanielMarshall, ZebTortorici (Eds.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 392 pages. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1797‐41
THE SENSE OF MOVEMENT: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORYRogerSmithLondon, UK: Process Press, 2019. 444pp. $30.15 (cloth). ISBN:978‐1899209248.1
Cold War social science: Transnational entanglements. Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé (Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 400 pp. 124,79 € (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐3‐030‐70245‐8; 978‐3‐030‐70246‐5 (ebook)1
Committed: Remembering native kinship in and beyond institutions SusanBurch University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 240pp. Open access (ebook). ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐6336‐4; 978‐1‐4696‐6161‐2 (cloth); 9781
Revival of psychology in former Czechoslovakia and the contemporary Czech Republic after the fall of Totalitarian communist regimes1
The acid room: The psychedelic trials and tribulations of Hollywood hospitalJesseDonaldson and ErikaDyckVancouver: Anvil Press, 2022. 160 pp. $15 soft. ISBN 978‐1‐77214‐186‐31
Gods of the upper air: How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth centuryCharlesKingNew York and Toronto: Doubleday, 2019. p. 448 $ 30 (hardcover). ISBN1
Reintroducing Robert K. MertonCharlesCrothersRoutledge,2020.186 pp. $44.95 (paper). ISBN 9780367409678; 9780367409661 (cloth); 9780367810160 (ebook)1
Les Synesthésies: Une histoire de leur découverte et des premières études scientifiques au cours du XIXe siècle; Synesthesias: A story of their discovery and the first scientific studies in the 19th C1
SCIENCE FICTION AND PSYCHOLOGY (LIVERPOOL SCIENCE FICTION TEXTS AND STUDIES 62). Gavin, MillerLiverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2020, 2020, 258 pp. +index. $120 (hardcover). ISBN 1789620600.1
Psychedelic philanthropy: The nonprofit sector and Timothy Leary's 1960s psychedelic movement1
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self‐Recognition in the Human SciencesKatjaGuentherPrinceton University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $39.95 (soft). ISBN: 9780691237251.1
Experts, social scientists, and techniques of prognosis in Cold War AmericaChristianDayéPalgrave, 2020. 265 pp. $74.99 (paper). ISBN: 978‐3030327804.1
Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955ElisabettaBasso; Marie SatyaMcDonough (trans.) Columbia University Press, 2022. 331 pp. $30.00 (pape1
Voices in the history of madness: Personal and professional perspectives on mental health and illness RobertEllis, SarahKendal, & Steven J.Taylor, (Eds.) Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspe1
Disturbing spirits: Mental illness, trauma, and treatment in modern Syria and LebanonBeverly A.TsacoyianisNotre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 370 pp. $55 cloth; $43.99 EPUB/PDF. ISBN: 971
The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the AnthropoceneJürgen RennPrinceton University Press, 2020. 584 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780691171982; 9780691218595 (paper); 9780691185675 (ebook)1
Schizophrenia: An unfinished historyOrnaOphir, Polity, 2022. 224 pp. $42 (cloth). ISBN: 9781509536474.1
How the brain lost its mind: Sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illnessw Allan H. Ropper and Brian D. Burrell London: Atlantic Books, 2020. 256pp. $24.64. ISBN 978‐1786491800.1
Psychology and politics: Intersections of sciences and ideology in the history of Psy‐SciencesAnnaBorgos, FerencErős & JúliaGyimesi (Eds.) Budapest & New York, Central European University Pres1
Broken dreams: An intimate history of the midlife crisis Mark Jackson Reaktion Books, 2021. 272pp. £20.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781789143959.1
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962–1983)1
Administrations of lunacy: Racism and the haunting of American psychiatry at Milledgeville Asylum. Mab SegrestThe New Press, 2020. 416 pp. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN 9781620972977.1
Limits of empathy: The dementia tōjisha movement in Japan1
The empathy diaries: A memoirSherryTurklePenguin Press, 2021. Xxi + 384 pp. $28.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 97811088348101
The Republic of Color. Michael Rossi. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 2019. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0226651729.1
History of psychology in Latin America: A cultural approachJulio CésarOssa, GonzaloSalas, & HernanScholten (Eds.) Springer, 2021. 268 pp. $149.99 (cloth). ISBN 978‐3-030‐73681‐1; 978‐3‐030‐73682‐81
Out of the closet? Reconstructing the personal life of pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis1
Break on through: Radical psychiatry and the American countercultureLucasRichert, MIT Press, 2019, 224 pp. $17.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97802620428261
The Jamesian mindSarinMarchetti (Ed.) Routledge, 2022. 568 pp. $250.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐367‐14000‐71
Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Raised Apart Nancy L. Segal Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 544 pp. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1‐5381‐3285‐2; 978‐1‐5381‐3286‐91
Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair: Nigrescence and EudaimoniaWilliam E.Cross, Jr. Temple University Press, 2021. 200 pp. $27.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4399‐2106‐7; 978‐1‐4399‐2105‐0 (cloth); 971
Julian Ochorowicz's experiments with Eusapia Palladino 1894: The temporality of mass media and the crisis of local credibility1
Killer instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth‐Century America Nadine Weidman Harvard University Press, 2021. 368 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 97806749834721
Response to Roger Smith1
Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the DebateAlexanderBatthynány Series: Springer Briefs in Psychology. Springer, 2021. 127 pp. $69.99 (paper). ISBN 978‐3‐030‐83062‐5; 978‐3‐030‐83063‐2 (ebook)1
THE DOCTOR AND MRS. ASarahPintoNew York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 242 pp. $28.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0823286669.1
Psychological operationisms at Harvard: Skinner, Boring, and Stevens1
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology Earl Wright II University of Cincinnati Press, 2020 250 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 97819476025711
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Jill Lepore Liveright, 2020. 432 pp. $28.95 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐63149‐610‐3; 978‐1‐324‐09112‐7 (paper)1
Chimpanzee culture wars: Rethinking human nature alongside Japanese, European, and American cultural primatologistsNicolasLanglitzPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 352 pp. $95.00 (cloth). I1
The empire of depression: A new historyJonathanSadowskyPolity, 2020. 224 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1‐509‐53164‐6; 978‐1‐509‐53166‐0 (ebook)1
Une histoire comparée de la psychiatrie: Henri Ellenberger (1905‐1993)EmmanuelDelilleÉditions Rue d'Ulm/Presses de l'École Normale Supérieure, 2021. 400 pp. 25.00 €. ISBN 978‐2‐7288‐0749‐91
Desperate remedies: Psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness AndrewScull Harvard University Press, 2022. 512 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97806742651031
VIOLA KLEIN. THE FEMININE CHARACTER: HISTORY OF AN IDEOLOGY. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTDA., LONDRES, 1947. EDITION REVIEWED: VIOLA KLEIN. EL CARÁCTER FEMENINO. HISTORIA DE UNA1
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah Matteo Bortolini Princeton University Press, 2021. 528 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780691204406; 9780691204390 (ebook)1
The maternalists: Psychoanalysis, motherhood, and the British welfare state Shaul Bar‐Haim Series: Intellectual History in the Modern Age. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 352 pp. $65.00 (cloth1
The urge: Our history of addictionCarl ErikFisherPenguin Press, 2022. 400 pp. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780525561446.1
How we became our data: A genealogy of the informational personColinKoopmanChicago, IL; University of Chicago Press. p. 269 $30.00 (soft). ISBN 9780226626581.1
“Angela's psych squad”: Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s1
Psyche and Soul in America: The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May Robert H. Abzug Oxford University Press, 2021. 432 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐975437‐31
A TIME OF LOST GODS: MEDIUMSHIP, MADNESS AND THE GHOST AFTER MAOEmilyNgOakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. 224pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0520303034.1
The Early Foucault By StuartElden, Polity. 2021. 281 + xiv pp. $26.96 (paper). ISBN: 978‐15095259661
Freud and Said: Contrapuntal psychoanalysis as liberation praxisRobert K. BesharaPalgrave Macmillan, 2021. 208 pp. $24.99 (eBook). ISBN 978‐3‐030‐56743‐9.1
Changes in Hungarian academic psychology after the end of “people's democracy”1
Miracles of Healing. Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth‐century ScotlandGavinMillerEdinburgh University Press, 2022. 184 pp. £80.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781474446969; 9781474446976 (paper); 978147444691
Conversations with Carl Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones. Richard Evans. Jodi Kearns (Ed.) The Center for the History of Psychology Series. The University of Akron Press, 2020. $24.95 (paperback).1
MADNESS IN THE CITY OF MAGNIFICENT INTENTIONS: A HISTORY OF RACE AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE NATION'S CAPITALMartinSummersOxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019. 408 pp. $41.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781
Anti‐semitism and analytical psychology: Jung, politics and culture Daniel Burston Routledge, 2021. 140 pp. ISBN 97803674267361
OUR MORAL FATE: EVOLUTION AND THE ESCAPE FROM TRIBALISMAllenBuchananCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020, 296 pp. $35.00 (cloth) ISBN‐13: 978‐0262043748.1
Hometown asylum: A history and memoir of institutional careJack MartinFriesenPress, 2020. 207 pp. $14.95 (paperback). ISBN‐978‐1‐5255‐8973‐7; 978‐1‐5255‐8975‐1 (ebook); 978‐1‐5255‐8974‐4 (cloth)1
Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust: The Work of Peter Fonagy and Colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre Robbie Duschinsky and Sarah Foster Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. £50.00 (cloth & open acc1
A brief history of Romanian psychology1
Uncovering Critical Personalism: Readings from William Stern's Contributions to Scientific Psychology James T. Lamiell Series: Palgrave Studies in the  Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmi1
Harry Harlow's pit of despair: Depression in monkeys and men1
Henri Tajfel: Explorer of identity and differenceRupertBrown, Routledge, 2019, 286 pp., $49.95 (paperback). ISBN: 97811385898101
“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes1
DSM: A History of Psychiatry's BibleAllan V.HorwitzJohns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 232 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781421440699; 9781421440705 (ebook)1
Psychoanalysis and Society's Neglect of Sexual Abuse of Children and Young Adults: Re‐addressing Freud's Original Theory of Sexual Abuse and TraumaArnold Wm.RachmanRoutledge, 2022. 376 pp. $39.95 (clo1
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brainStanleyFinger & PaulElingOxford University Press, 584 pp., $95.00 (hardcover). ISBN 9780190464622.1
Ernest Dichter's fur coat models: Fashioning a therapeutic culture1
Diagnosing Dissent: Hysterics, Deserters, and Conscientious Objectors in Germany during World War One. Rebecca AyakoBennette. Cornell University Press, 2020. 228 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐150171
Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Colonial CultureMarinaMassimiSeries: Latin American Voices. Springer Nature, 2021. 238 pp. $119.99 (cloth). ISBN 978‐3‐030‐60644‐2; 978‐3‐030‐60647‐31
Robert V. Guthrie and Even the Rat was White: A Retrospective Appreciation of the First Edition1
Psychic investigators: Anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age. EframSera‐Shriar, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 222 pages. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐1
Teaching machines: The history of personalized learningAudreyWatters. The MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp. $34.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9780262045698; 9780262363747 (ebook)1
Making A Grade: Victorian Examinations and the Rise of Standardized Testing James Elwick University of Toronto Press, 2021. 234 pp. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781487508937; 9781487539351 (ebook)1
Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the double bind, and the rise of ecological consciousnessAnthonyChaneyThe University of North Carolina Press, 2017, 304 pp., photographs, $32.95 (hardcover) ISBN 9781469631731
A Silvan Tomkins handbook: Foundations for affect theory Adam J.Frank and Elizabeth A.Wilson University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 203 pp. $20 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐8166‐8000‐91
CORNERSTONES OF ATTACHMENT RESEARCHRobbie DuschinskyOxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. 640pp. $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐884206‐4.1
The Huxleys: An intimate history of evolution, By AlisonBashford, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2022. 576 pages. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐72011‐11
Society on the edge: Social science and public policy in the postwar United States Phillipe Fontaine and JeffersonPooley (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280pp. £74.99 (cloth). ISBN 97811084871
Laboratory of deficiency: Sterilization and confinement in California, 1900–1950sNatalieLiraUniversity of California Press, 2022. 284 pp. $29.95 (soft). ISBN 9780520355682.1
Guns, germs, and public history: A conversation with Jennifer Tucker1
Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century: In and Beyond the AsylumStevenJ. Taylor and AliceBrumby (Eds.) Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 274 pp. Open access 971
THE SEXUAL QUESTION. A HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION IN PERU, 1850s‐1950s. PauloDrinot. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 328 pp. $31.99 (paper). ISBN 1108717284.1
Informational media review: The pluralization of the history of anthropology: BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology1
Asylum ways of seeing: Psychiatric patients, American thought and cultureHeatherMurray, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐8122‐5357‐31
The settler colonial roots and neoliberal afterlife of Problem Behavior Theory1
Development of psychology in Bulgaria after the political changes in 19891
Mad by the millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health OrganizationHarry Yi‐JuiWuThe MIT Press, 2021. 240 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0‐2620‐4538‐91
States of childhood: From the junior republic to the American republic, 1895–1945Jennifer S.LightCambridge: The MIT Press, 2020. 480pp. $40.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0262539012.1
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