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This case study of an inter-university controversy over the publication of research from an interdisciplinary social science project on the forced migration and long- term internment of West Coast Japanese-Americans during World War II shows some of the difficulties of maintaining ownership of research materials. In this particular instance the junior employee was able to override his seniors' demand for control of the dissemination of research results by playing on the concerns about even appearing to suppress work for political reasons. The paper discusses conflicting norms of science and rhetorics of justification ranging from proprietary self-interest through "good science" to "the national interest" and onto "the needs of a free society." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the founding of psychology as discipline in New Zealand, giving particular emphasis to its connections with psychology in the United Kingdom. Erik Erickson's psychosocial crises provide a convenient metaphor for stages in the development of psychology in New Zealand as it has vascillated between British and North American traditions and as the academic vision of the discipline has accommodated itself to the more recent professional and applied outlook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Clark psychology in the post&shyHallian era has attracted little attention from scholars. The only general account, Carl Murchison's ‘Recollections of a Magic Decade at Clark’ (1959), is both partisan and limited in scope. This paper examines the ‘second cycle’ of the Clark department in a period of unusual productivity in research, publication and graduate training from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties, as well as the internal tensions and constraints that led the department to self-destruct in 1936 and lose its scholarly leadership and professional visibility until the post-World War II era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A first cooperative research program in the developmental psychology was established in the Clark questionnaire studies. The program was not meant to be free­standing but to elaborate an evolutionary conception of child development synthesized from findings of several scientific fields. The short­lived program had some serious faults, but an examination of its research papers suggests that it produced some worthwhile work. The child­study researchers gathered information about children's social and emotional reactions in everyday settings; one or two of their studies were replicated; they found pattern and order; they elaborated a meaningful social­biological view of child development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies the institutional character of pre-1920 psychology at Clark University with founding President G. Stanley Hall's active ‘patronage’ of ‘outsiders,’ argues that the origins of this institutional character can be found in Hall's own personal character and temperament, and traces the influence of this institutional character through much of the psychology done at Clark before 1920. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reid’s opposition to the representational view of mind is accompanied with some other conceptual changes in the Cartesian conceptual framework. These changes, however, fail to provide a comprehensive alternative to this framework. This is especially disturbing with respect to the causal view of mind. This paper suggests the paradigm of emergent properties as an alternative to the causal paradigm. Although this paradigm is not present in Reid’s writings, it is compatible with his opposition to the representational view of mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the inception of a scientific movement (the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology); the individuals who begot it; the two journals and numerous scientific articles which resulted; it effects in stimulating new areas of teaching and of theoretical development; and its international reception as well as its successes and failures in stimulating the creation of satellite societies on the same pattern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the decade surrounding the Second World War, an extensive literature on the biological and psychological basis of aggression surfaced in America, a literature that in general emphasized the significance of learning and environment in the origins of aggressive behavior. Focusing on the animal behavior research of Warder Clyde Allee and John Paul Scott, this paper examines the complex interplay among conceptual, institutional, and societal forces that created and shaped a discourse on the subjects of aggression, dominance, and leadership within the context of World War II. The distinctions made between sexual and social dominance during this period, distinctions accentuated by the threat of totalitarianism attests to the multiplicity of interactions that influence the development of scientific research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on latest developments related to educational programs and activities as of October 1989. The University of Manchester Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. research programs. The National Library of Medicine plans to select a recognized scholar to engage in historical research and staff consultation during the 1990-1991 season. The National Council on Public History will meet jointly with the Southwest Oral History Association in San Diego, California, March 7-10, 1990, and invites submissions for complete sessions, individual papers, panels, and media presentations.

The Enlightenment brought with it a greater scientific interest in and attention to a wider range of human behavior, in 1789. There emerged during the French Revolution a case of what would be today called multiple personality disorder which came under the care of a local physician, Dr. Eberhard Gmelin. Gmelin had only recently become interested in mesmerism and tried this procedure with this patient. So started an ongoing and gradually increasing exploration of the role of hypnosis in multiple personalities. This paper contributes to the historical background or such psychodynamic concepts as dissociation, splitting, repression, consciousness, sub- conscious, and unconscious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robert Carneiro. Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. 322 pp. $37 (paper). ISBN 0-8133-3766-6. Maria Pierrakos. Transcribing Lacan's Seminars: Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Turned Psychoanalyst. London: Free Association Books, 2006. 66 pp. $32.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-8534-39630. Cesare Lombroso. Criminal Man (translated and with a new introduction). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 448 pp. $23.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8223-3723-1. Charles Lemert. Durkheim's Ghosts: Cultural Logics and Social Things. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 294 pp. $29.99 (paper). ISBN 0-521-60363-3. Herve Le Guyader. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-47091-1. Greta Jones and Robert Peel (Eds.). Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy. London: Galton Institute, 2004. 154 pp. £5 (paper). ISBN 09504066-8-6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

H. Glenn Penny. Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 281 pp. $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8078-5430-1. G. Richards. Putting Psychology in Its Place: A Critical Historical Overview, Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2002. 368 pp. $25.95 (paper). ISBN 1-84169-234-4. Robert M. Lindner. Rebel Without a Cause: The Story of a Criminal Psychopath. New York: Other Press, 2003. 296 pp. $16.00 (paper). ISBN 1-59051-024-0. Jens Rydström. Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880–1950. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. 416 pp. (paper). ISBN 0-226-73257-6. Jerome A. Winer and James William Anderson (Eds.). The Annual of Psychoanalysis 31: Psychoanalysis and History. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, Inc. 2003. 288 pp. $49.95. ISBN 0-88163-399-2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ernest B. Hook (Ed.). Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance and Neglect . Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2002. xx + 378 pp. $80.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-23106-6. Margaret P. Munger (Ed.). The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions . New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi + 514 pp. $69.95 (paper). ISBN 0-19-515154-2. James Moor (Ed.). The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence . Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. ix + 445 pp. $37.00 (paper). ISBN: 1-4020-1205-5. John P. Jackson Jr. (Ed.). Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. 452 pp. $50.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-226-38934-0. $27.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-38935-9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces that doctoral student Shayna Fox Lee has been awarded the 2017 Cheiron Young Scholar Award for her paper "Psychology's Own Mindfulness: Ellen Langer, the Rise of Scientific Interest in Buddhist Practices, and the Social Politics of Helping Individuals Help Themselves."

The article presents numerous calls for papers and presents information on various conferences, including the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the 59th Annual Society for French Historical Studies conference.

The article offers the author's comment on professor Daniel Burston's review of his book "Love in Vienna: The Sigmund Freud-Minna Bernays Affair." The author admits that he overlooked Burston's 1999 paper "Archetype and Interpretation," which offers insight into the relationship between psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife's sister Minna Bernays, and Freud's relationship with psychiatrist Carl Jung.

Dominic Murphy. Psychiatry in the Scientific Image. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 410 pp. $35 (cloth) ISBN 0-262-13455-1. Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (eds). Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 272 pp. $22 (paper) ISBN: 0-8147-8301-5. Brian Ogilvie. The Science of Describing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 431 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-226-62087-9. William Clark. Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 576 pp. (cloth) ISBN 978-0-226-10921-3 J. Keith Davies and Gerhard Fichtner (Eds.). Freud's Library:A Comprehensive Catalogue. London: The Freud Museum, 2006. 144 pp. and one CD ROM. $47 (cloth) ISBN 9783892957522. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]