Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s6
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; 978‐3‐030‐60647‐35
The Jamesian mindSarinMarchetti (Ed.) Routledge, 2022. 568 pp. $250.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐367‐14000‐74
Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce4
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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
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
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
Constructing economic science: The invention of a discipline 1850–1950 By KeithTribe, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 440. £74.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97801904917413
Spitting on my sources: Depression, DNA, and the ambivalent historian3
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
Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century2
“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
The miracle of Maglavit (1935) and the Romanian psychology of religion2
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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
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 97806749752312
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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
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology2
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 (paper2
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 Macmi2
Reflections from pioneering women in psychologyJamilaBookwala, Nicky J.Newton(Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 366. $39.99 (ebook). ISBN: 97811088910041
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
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
Revival of psychology in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communist regimes1
The neglected object: A history of the concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry and psychology in the interwar period, 1918–19391
Miracles of Healing. Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth‐century ScotlandGavinMillerEdinburgh University Press, 2022. 184 pp. £80.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781474446969; 9781474446976 (paper); 978147444691
Code: From information theory to French theory By Bernard DionysiusGeoghegan: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 258. $26.95 (ebook). ISBN: 97814780236301
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
“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes1
Psychological research and practice in former Yugoslavia and its successors1
Pragmatism as Idealism? The Case of Mary Whiton Calkins1
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
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
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Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the HolocaustBy Roger Frie, Oxford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780197748770.1
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 States1
The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry1
Degenerateness, Mental Hygiene, and Spiritism: Debates in the Argentine Medical Press (1930–1946)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
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A brief history of Romanian psychology1
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
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
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia George Makari Norton, 2021. 346 pp. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐393‐65200‐01
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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
Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training1
Freud and psychoanalysis: Six introductory lecturesBy JohnForrester, Cambridge UK and Hoboken NJ: Polity Press. 2023. pp. 224. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 97815095581241
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 Ireland1
How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 320 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐0999‐4; 978‐1‐5179‐1000‐6 (cloth)1
The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion By GrantBollmer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 279. $28 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1546‐91
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
Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology Neil McLaughlin Series: Public Sociology. Bristol University Press, 2021. 310 pp. $96.00 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1529214581; 978‐1529214604 (epub)1
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
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The urge: Our history of addictionCarl ErikFisherPenguin Press, 2022. 400 pp. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780525561446.1
‘The Machine Takes Our Jobs Away’: The problem of technological unemployment in the work of Chicago sociologist William F. Ogburn1
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Psychobiography: In Search of the Inner Life By James WilliamAnderson, Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. $90 (cloth). ISBN 97801976020961
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Madness and enterprise: Psychiatry, economic reason, and the emergence of pathological value By NimaBassiri, University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 344. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802268308961
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The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden1
FORUM FOR THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES1
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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
Sigmund Freud (Critical Lives Series) byMattFfytche:Reaktion Books.2022. pp.224. pages. $22.00 (paper). ISBN 97817891457931
Behavioral Cetology in the 19th Century: Thomas Beale, Henry Cheever, Thomas Southwell and Their Role in Awakening a Cetacean Protection Consciousness1
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962–1983)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
The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900–19201
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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).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
Remedies for the housewife's nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson's popular self‐help texts, 1920–19301
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
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: 9781
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). ISBN1
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
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Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty‐First CenturyAlyson K.SpurgasThe Ohio State University Press, 2020. 290 pp. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐8142‐1451‐0; 978‐0‐8142‐5769‐2 (pap1
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