Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

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(The median citation count of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s5
The Jamesian mindSarinMarchetti (Ed.) Routledge, 2022. 568 pp. $250.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐367‐14000‐74
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An ordinary future: Margaret Mead, the problem of disability, and a child born different ByThomas W.Pearson,Oakland:University of California Press.2023. pp.208. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 97805203882913
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self‐Recognition in the Human SciencesKatjaGuentherPrinceton University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $39.95 (soft). ISBN: 9780691237251.3
Kinaesthesia in the psychology, philosophy, and culture of human experience By RogerSmith, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 156. $51.96 (cloth); 19.96 (ebook). ISBN: 9781032435909 (cloth); 9781003368021 (3
Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce3
Spitting on my sources: Depression, DNA, and the ambivalent historian3
Constructing economic science: The invention of a discipline 1850–1950 By KeithTribe, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 440. £74.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97801904917412
California and the politics of disability, 1850–1970 By Eileen V.Wallis. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 353. $119.99 (cloth); $89 (ebook). ISBN: 9783031217135 (cloth); 9783031271142 2
“It's a fight – the whole personality of the patient to win.” The development of concepts of psychosis in the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, 1898–19432
Yang Kuo‐Shu and the Indigenous Movements of Psychology in China From the Perspective of History2
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Edited by MarkSolms in Collaboration With Ilse Gubrich‐SimitisRowman and Littlefield and the Institute of Psychoanalys2
Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming ResearchBy RuthLeys, University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802268369592
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Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century2
Ideological and political bias in psychology: Nature, scope, and solutions By Craig L.Frisby, Richard E.Redding, William T.O'Donohue, & Scott O.Lilienfeld (Eds.), Springer. 2023. pp. 948. $159.99 2
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology2
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Laying the foundations of independent psychology: The formation of modern psychology volume 1Csaba Pléh. Routledge. 2024. pp. 516. $59.99 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐50276‐21
Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training1
Code: From information theory to French theory By Bernard DionysiusGeoghegan: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 258. $26.95 (ebook). ISBN: 97814780236301
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Breaking point: The ironic evolution of psychiatry in World War II, RebeccaSchwartz Greene, (Foreword by NoahTsika.: Fordham University Press. 2023. 368 pp. $30 (paper). ISBN: 9781531500269.1
Bulls, Crocodiles, and Other Scientific Instruments: Margaret Lowenfeld and the Alternative History of Child Psychotherapy1
Entre médicos y médiums: Saberes, tensiones y límites en el espiritismo argentino (1880–1959). [Between doctors and mediums: Boundary work and Influences in a Spiritualism in Argentina (1880–1959).] B1
Language as social action: Gertrude Buck, the “Michigan School” of rhetoric, and pragmatist philosophy1
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Laws of transgression: The return of Judge SchreberPeterGoodrich, KatrinTrustedt. University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 232. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 97814875091561
Diversification and professionalization of psychology: the formation of modern psychology ByCsabaPléh: Routledge.2024. pp.582. $66.39 (paper/ebook). ISBN: 9781032625775; 978‐1‐032‐62580‐51
Revival of psychology in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communist regimes1
Miracles of Healing. Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth‐century ScotlandGavinMillerEdinburgh University Press, 2022. 184 pp. £80.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781474446969; 9781474446976 (paper); 978147444691
Book Review on “A People's History of Psychoanalysis” By FlorentGabarron‐Garcia (Shuli Branson, trans.), Pluto Press, 2025. 256 pp. £11.99 (ebook). ISBN: 978‐0‐74‐534959‐61
Freud and psychoanalysis: Six introductory lecturesBy JohnForrester, Cambridge UK and Hoboken NJ: Polity Press. 2023. pp. 224. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 97815095581241
“The Way They Speak of Masters and Johnson”: The Rise and Disappearance of Sex Therapy, 1960–20001
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The unwieldiness of psychotherapy and its history. A review of a critical history of psychotherapy (two‐volume set) By RenatoFoschi, MarcoInnamorati: Routledge. 2023. pp. 512. $232 (cloth). ISBN: 97811
Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the HolocaustBy Roger Frie, Oxford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780197748770.1
Pragmatism as Idealism? The Case of Mary Whiton Calkins1
Evolution for the People: Shaping Popular Ideas From Darwin to the Present. By Peter J.Bowler, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 308 pages. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐944899‐41
Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education by Agustina S.Paglayan Princeton University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐961‐26127‐01
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Sigmund Freud (Critical Lives Series) byMattFfytche:Reaktion Books.2022. pp.224. pages. $22.00 (paper). ISBN 97817891457931
The miracle of Maglavit (1935) and the Romanian psychology of religion1
A brief history of Romanian psychology1
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The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden1
The urge: Our history of addictionCarl ErikFisherPenguin Press, 2022. 400 pp. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780525561446.1
The uncanny rise of medical hypnotism 1888–1914. Between imagination and suggestion by Gordon David LyleBates, Bristol, England: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 265. $59.99 (cloth); $44.99 (ebook). ISBN1
The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry1
Reflections from pioneering women in psychologyJamilaBookwala, Nicky J.Newton(Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 366. $39.99 (ebook). ISBN: 97811088910040
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A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind. By EdwardBeasley, The American Philosophical Society Press, 2024. 434 pp. $49.50 (cloth). ISBN‐13: ‎978‐16061890160
Interdisciplinarity in Transition: The Formation and Transformation of the Committee on Human Development, 1930s–1950s0
Some Aspects of the Psychology of the Unconscious in D. Uznadze's Set Theory0
The book history of Rona M. Fields's A Society on the Run (1973): A case study in the alleged suppression of psychological research on Northern Ireland0
We are all monsters: How deviant organisms came to define us By AndrewMangham, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2023. pp. 329. $32.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐262‐04752‐40
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”0
Desperate remedies: Psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness AndrewScull Harvard University Press, 2022. 512 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97806742651030
Rules: A short history of what we live By LorraineDaston: Princeton University Press. 2022. pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 97806911569890
Behavioral Cetology in the 19th Century: Thomas Beale, Henry Cheever, Thomas Southwell and Their Role in Awakening a Cetacean Protection Consciousness0
Communist psychology in Argentina: Transnational politics, scientific culture, and psychotherapy (1935‐1991)Luciano NicolásGarcíaSpringer. 2022. pp. 208. $109 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐15620‐50
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Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis0
Laboratory of deficiency: Sterilization and confinement in California, 1900–1950sNatalieLiraUniversity of California Press, 2022. 284 pp. $29.95 (soft). ISBN 9780520355682.0
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Development of psychology in Bulgaria after the political changes in 19890
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Rudolph Hermann Lotze's philosophically informed psychology0
Returning to the sources: An interview with Saulo de Freitas Araujo about the book series Clássicos da Psicologia (Classics of Psychology)0
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The Product of Medicine: How Efficiency Made American Health Care. By CaitjanGainty. Duke University Press, 2025. 225 pp. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN: 1‐47‐802842‐40
Ernest Dichter's fur coat models: Fashioning a therapeutic culture0
The Early Foucault By StuartElden, Polity. 2021. 281 + xiv pp. $26.96 (paper). ISBN: 978‐15095259660
An epistemology of empathy and modern methods of social research: Intimations of the mind and early Chicago sociology0
The prescription‐to‐prison pipeline: The medicalization and criminalization of pain By MichelleSmirnova, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 176. $94.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780
Break on Through: Betty Eisner's Problematic Use of Psychedelics, Groups, and Control for Integrative Experiences0
Hume on the Prospects for a Scientific Psychology0
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Ever not quite: Pluralism(s) in William James and contemporary psychologyBy Saulo de FreitasAraujo and Lisa M.Osbeck, Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 150. $125 (cloth/ebook). ISBN: 97811088450210
In the attic of dreams. The personal archives of the father of paradoxical sleep0
A supposedly objective thing I'll never use again: Word association and the quest for validity and reliability in emotional adjustment research from Carl Jung to Carl Rogers (1898–1927)0
Reception of experimental pedagogy and psychology in Chile. Analysis of the intellectual influences of Wilhelm Mann, 1904–19150
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Psychonauts: Drugs and the making of the modern mind By MikeJay, Yale University Press. 2023. pp. 359. $32.50 (cloth). ISBN: 97803002579460
Epistemics of the soul: Epistemic logics in German 18th‐century empirical psychology0
Madness and enterprise: Psychiatry, economic reason, and the emergence of pathological value By NimaBassiri, University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 344. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802268308960
The man who organized nature: The life of Linnaeus ByGunnarBroberg,AnnaPaterson (Trans.):Princeton University Press.2023. pp.484. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN: 97806912134220
Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany0
Harvard's quixotic pursuit of a new science: The rise and fall of the Department of Social RelationsPatrick L.Schmidt: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2022. pp. xiv + 249. $40.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780
‘The Machine Takes Our Jobs Away’: The problem of technological unemployment in the work of Chicago sociologist William F. Ogburn0
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of EnlightenmentChristinaRamosUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2022. 266 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐4696‐6657‐0; 978‐1‐4696‐6656‐3 (cloth)0
The Routledge history of American science By Timothy W.Kneeland(Ed.), Routledge. 2023. pp. 406. $250.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97803676317100
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Participant observers: Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain By FreddyFoks : University of California Press. 2023. pp. 280. $34.95 (soft/ebook); $85.00 (cloth).0
Völkerpsychologie as a field science: José Miguel de Barandiarán and Basque ethnology0
Erving Goffman and the Cold War. By Gary D.Jaworski, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2023. pp. 251. $105.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐666‐93680‐30
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Psychological research and practice in former Yugoslavia and its successors0
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Boris Parygin' Social Psychology: History and Perspectives0
Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955ElisabettaBasso; Marie SatyaMcDonough (trans.) Columbia University Press, 2022. 331 pp. $30.00 (pape0
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Wondrous transformations: A maverick physician, the science of hormones, and the birth of the transgender revolution ByAlisonLiUniversity of North Carolina Press.2023.pp.258. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 0
Addiction Becomes Normal. On the Late‐Modern American Subject by JaeyoonPark, University of Chicago Press, 2024. 224 pages. 27.50 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-226-83276-00
Changing the guard: Organizational science and social psychology in the US army0
“Psychoanalysts are always at the same time doctors and patients and can be cured as doctors.” An analysis of Karl Kraus's antipsychoanalytic aphorisms (1905–1930)0
The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion By GrantBollmer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 279. $28 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1546‐90
Spiritualism and Psychology in Argentina: The Inception of Parapsychology in the Scientific Mainstream (1948–1955)0
The first resort: The history of social psychiatry in the United StatesMatthewSmith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 424pp. $30 (paper); $120 (cloth); $29.99 (ebook). ISBN: 9780231203937 (p0
Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics. By JessWhatcott, Duke University Press, 2024. 226 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐803075‐10
Commitment, Cold War, and the battles of the self: Thomas Schelling on behavior control0
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Ethics by committee: A history of reasoning together about medicine, science, society, and the state ByNoortjeJacobs:University of Chicago Press.2022. pp.264. $105 (cloth); $35 (paper); $34.99 (ebook)0
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: 978‐0
The soul in soulless psychology By RobertKugelmann: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 314. $125.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐009‐30121‐30
Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War PsychologyByMichaelPettit, Oxford University Press, 2024. 361 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN: 97801976218510
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The acid room: The psychedelic trials and tribulations of Hollywood hospitalJesseDonaldson and ErikaDyckVancouver: Anvil Press, 2022. 160 pp. $15 soft. ISBN 978‐1‐77214‐186‐30
The History of EmotionsByRobBoddice, Manchester University Press. 2023. pp. 296. £17.99 (paper). ISBN: 97815261711770
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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: 97806911773110
The cult of creativity BySamuel W.Franklin,University of Chicago Press.2023. pp.264. $26 (cloth). ISBN: 97802266578510
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The reeducation of race: Jewishness and the politics of antiracism in postcolonial thought BySonaliThakkar,Stanford University Press. 2024. pp. 288. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97815036364460
The celluloid specimen: Moving images research into animal life By BenjamínSchultz‐Figueroa: University of California Press. 2023. pp. 270. $34.95 (paper). ISBN: 97805203423470
Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century, By HannahZeavin, MIT Press, 2025. 320 pp. $34.99 (cloth). ISBN 97802620495590
Ambivalent Tolman: Indirect Influence on Enactivism of Tolman's Sign‐Gestaltism Through Merleau‐Ponty0
Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the head readers: Literature, humor, and faddish phrenology By StanleyFinger, Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 332. $45.95 (cloth); $39.99 (ebook). ISBN0
Professional opportunities, gender obstacles, and narrowed progression: The case of the first Social Science Research Council female fellows (1925–1934)0
Reflections on the use of patient records: Privacy, ethics, and reparations in the history of psychiatry0
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Remedies for the housewife's nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson's popular self‐help texts, 1920–19300
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The Remnants of Race Science: UNESCO and Economic Development in the Global South By SebastiánGil‐Riaño, New York: Columbia University Press. 2023. pp. 392. $35.00 (soft). ISBN: 9780231194358 (soft); 0
Out of the closet? Reconstructing the personal life of pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis0
The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900–19200
Changes in Hungarian academic psychology after the end of “people's democracy”0
Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy. MyrnaPerez, Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 284 pp.(+ xii). $54.95 (cloth). ISBN: 9781421450150
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Scienceby Benjamin Breen, New York: Grand Central Publishing. 2024. pp. 369. $3000 (cloth). ISBN 97815387223740
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 0‐2620‐4538‐90
The analyst: A daughter's memoir, AliceWexlerColumbia University Press, 2022. 296 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780231202787.0
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Madness in the family: Women, care, and illness in JapanH. YumiKim: Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 248. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780197507353.0
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The Huxleys: An intimate history of evolution, By AlisonBashford, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2022. 576 pages. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐72011‐10
The brain abstracted: Simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience ByMazviitaChirimuuta:MIT Press.2024. pp.364. $50.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐0‐2625‐4804‐50
Schizophrenia: An unfinished historyOrnaOphir, Polity, 2022. 224 pp. $42 (cloth). ISBN: 9781509536474.0
Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science By DuanaFullwiley, Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2024. 356 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐520‐40117‐40
How Psychology Can Benefit From the Academic Study of Esotericism0
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: 970
Racism and the making of gay rights: A sexologist, his student, and the empire of queer loveLaurieMarhoefer, University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 334. $34.95 (soft/ebook). ISBN: 97814875239780
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The neglected object: A history of the concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry and psychology in the interwar period, 1918–19390
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A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol‐formation0
Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget: Partial Reconstruction of Their Cooperation0
Psychic Mechanics: The Foundational Role of Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (1802–1896) in the Development of Psychophysics0
Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)0
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Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization0
What Weber Got Right About Brahmins—Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies0
Degenerateness, Mental Hygiene, and Spiritism: Debates in the Argentine Medical Press (1930–1946)0
Habit forming: Drug addiction in America, 1776–1914 By Elizabeth KellyGray: Oxford University Press. 2023. $35.00 (paper). ISBN: 97801976466940
“Undisciplined and a Moral Danger”: Fright, Idleness and Immorality as Attributions of “Imbecile Children” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain0
Liberation Psychology. The Work of Antonio and Nicolás Caparrós in Spain at the End of the Franco Dictatorship0
Reappraisal Review: Rudolph Hermann Lotze: Medicinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der SeeleNikolayMilkov (Ed.) Series: Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft. Springer, 2021. 708 pp. $69.99 (paper). ISB0
Nervous systems: Brain science in the early Cold War0
A Feminist Companion to Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychologyby Katherine Hubbard and Peter HegartyMcGraw‐Hill Education, 2024. £2199 (paper); £1799 (eBook). ISBN10: 03352521330
Forum for the history of the human sciences0
Excursions in Rorschachlandia: Surveying the scientific and philosophical landscape of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics0
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)0
The settler colonial roots and neoliberal afterlife of Problem Behavior Theory0
Paul Ekman and the search for the isolated face in the 1960s0
An all‐embracing science: The anthropological conception of Paolo Mantegazza0
“Angela's psych squad”: Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s0
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood0
Revival of psychology in former Czechoslovakia and the contemporary Czech Republic after the fall of Totalitarian communist regimes0
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Turning archival: The life of the historical in queer studies, DanielMarshall, ZebTortorici (Eds.), Durham: Duke University Press. 2022. 392 pages. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐1797‐40
After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon, By GregEghigian, Oxford University Press, 2024. 400 pp. $29.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐086987‐80
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Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life By James WilliamAnderson, Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90 (cloth). ISBN 97801976020960
“Intelligence Running Wild”: Edward Podvoll (1936–2003) and the Unfolding of the “Contemplative Psychotherapy” Project0
Engaging with the unknown: How Judaism enabled Freud's psychological discoveries0
Demography, Pleasure, State, and Market in Socialist Sexology: Medical‐Sexological and Sexual‐Psychological Public Discourse in Socialist Hungary Through Counseling Books From a Social‐Political Persp0
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeatby HannahProctor, Verso, 2024. 272 pp. $2495 (paper); $999 (ebook). ISBN: 97818397660530
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