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This document contains summaries of various presentations and studies related to the field of psychology. The first presentation discusses the need to reintegrate a higher purpose and meaning into psychology to address the increasing rates of mental illness. The second presentation focuses on the institutional and political organization of psychology in Brazil, highlighting the role of the Federal Council of Psychology in guiding and monitoring the profession. The third presentation examines the development of psychological science in Kazakhstan, identifying different periods and stages of growth. The fourth presentation explores the second generation of Japanese psychologists studying abroad and their contributions to the field. The fifth presentation discusses the development of protective and preventive mental health services in Turkey, emphasizing the importance of a holistic approach. The final presentation examines the interplay between child welfare legislation and the use of psychological testing for infants in Japan. [Extracted from the article]

In this article, we follow the trails of 20th-century psychologist Henry Herbert Goddard's influential study of the Kallikak family. Goddard's study is treated as a scientific story with two interlocking dimensions: One is the actual story of the Kallikak family, with literary elements such as setting, plot, and characters. The other dimension is the broader eugenic discourse, a powerful scientific narrative that calls for action in relation to society and the population. The purpose of the article is twofold. Firstly, to analyze the forming and articulations of this story and to explore some of the consequences for governing the population that it has made possible. Secondly, to explore some aspects of what a Foucauldian analytics of government can contribute with in relation to Goddard's work and the eugenic discourse from the early 20th century to today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Historically marginalized psychologists are underrepresented in history of psychology textbooks, which contributes to their poor recognition by psychology students. Open Educational Resources (OERs) offer a viable solution to inadequate pioneer representation. Objective: This study sought to replicate and extend prior research by examining whether diverse and inclusive OERs related to students' pioneer recognition and perceptions of course material identity representation (recognitive justice). Method: Undergraduate students (N = 50) enrolled in a History of Psychology course completed a pioneer recognition test at the beginning and end of the semester. Students' perceptions of recognitive justice and the OERs were also assessed. Results: Initial pioneer recognition benefitted white pioneers and pioneering men. Follow-up recognition significantly improved for all pioneer groups. Students reported positive perceptions of OERs, and feelings of recognitive justice were associated with final grades. Conclusion: Undergraduate psychology students need exposure to marginalized pioneers prior to taking a history of psychology course. A more inclusive history of psychology curriculum improves students' marginalized pioneer recognition and may benefit their course performance. Teaching Implications: Given the absence of women and pioneers of color in commercial textbooks, teachers of the history of psychology should consider using OERs to achieve more diverse pioneer representation in their curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article titled "The evolution of psychology in Sonora: from the associative structure of the situation to the historical structure of being" analyzes the history of psychology in Sonora, Mexico. The author reflects on their experience at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Veracruz and how this influenced their approach to behavioral psychology. The article highlights the importance of understanding psychological processes and phenomena rather than focusing solely on procedures and theories. The author also mentions the need to evaluate advancements and setbacks in psychology, although they recognize that 44 years is a short period in the scale of human events. The text discusses the history of psychology in Sonora, Mexico. It mentions that in 1976, there was a conflict among professors at the University of Veracruz, which led to the creation of the Center for Human Studies and Development. In 1979, experimental psychology in Xalapa was affected, and many professors moved to ENEP-Iztacala. In 1981, the author arrived in Hermosillo, where psychology developed as a scientific discipline. In 1982, the psychology degree program was created at the University of Sonora. The psychology school has experienced an increase in student demand, leading to the hiring of more professors. However, this increase in size has had unexpected consequences, such as improvisation and rushing. The school has organized various academic meetings and created a psychology journal. Over the years, two distinct academic groups have formed: psychometricians and psychodynamics, and behaviorists and developmental psychologists. Despite the difficulties, some professors have conducted relevant research and publications. The school needs to rebuild and reach agreements to adapt to changes and avoid theoretical rigidity. The text discusses the behavioral study of health, based on the Ribes and Piña model, which has generated numerous articles on AIDS, COVID, and obesity from an epidemiological perspective. It mentions that the contributions of Selye, Hefferline, the Yale group, and Victor Alcaraz regarding chronic diseases have been forgotten. The works of Lilia Encinas and Olimpia Salazar on suicide and prevention are also mentioned, as well as criticisms of a peer tutoring program and a psychological support group for students. Some notable individuals in the field of psychology are mentioned, and the Program for Performance Incentives for Teaching Staff and extrinsic motivation are discussed. Additionally, the creation of a new curriculum in 1998 is mentioned, and its focus on the work of Ribes and López is criticized. The article discusses the state of psychology at the University of Sonora. It mentions that the curriculum has generated criticism and dissatisfaction among teachers and students. The lack of important subjects and the lack of focus on the development of professional competencies are questioned. The proliferation of eclectic schools that do not offer solutions to students' mental problems is also mentioned. It is concluded that changes need to be made to the curriculum and that the communication of psychological science to a wider audience should be encouraged. The article "Remembrances and autobiographical reflections" by Ribes I. (2010) is published in the Journal of the History of Psychology. Other articles and books related to behavior theory and behavior control, written by authors such as Ribes, López, Schwartz, Skinner, and Ulrich, are also mentioned. The article was published by the Institute of Psychological Research at the University of Veracruz in July-December. [Extracted from the article]

Abstract The increasing popularity of the Bayesian approach in Psychology has prompted metascientific efforts to quantify its prevalence. However, despite enduring debates between proponents of Frequentist and Bayesian schools of thought, no systematic comparison of their prominence has been conducted in existing literature. This brief report fills this gap, examining Bayesian and Frequentist trends in the period from 1964 to 2023 through a meticulous search in PsycINFO. The findings reveal that the Frequentist approach has consistently been more popular than the Bayesian approach in the realm of Psychometrics and Statistical Psychology. However, Bayesian contributions steadily increased from the 80’s onward and appear to be almost as important or even surpassing the Frequentist counterparts in the latest years investigated (2019–2023). Although this observation applies primarily to specialized literature rather than the entire domain of Psychology, it underscores the growing prevalence of the Bayesian approach, signaling attention among specialists in the field.

The present study examined the thematic composition and temporal evolution of social psychology through a co-citation network analysis of 80,350 articles published from 1970 through 2022. Six primary thematic clusters were identified: a broad “Classic Social Psychology” cluster most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s; “Traits & Affect” and “Social Cognition” clusters most influential in the 1990s; and “The Self,” “Intergroup Relations,” and “Big Five” clusters emerging after 2000. A small seventh cluster dedicated to COVID-19 and conspiracy theories emerged around 2021. These trends fit a narrative of generational shifts within distinct social and personality psychology traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychology was established as a separate discipline when it split from philosophy. With the founding of Wundt's lab and subsequent developments by Külpe, Titchener, and others, psychology was championed initially as a distinct science, in which controlled experiments played a major role. A parallel approach, beginning with Wundt, that eschews causal explanations established through controlled experiments and focuses on qualitative descriptions based on the subjective experiences of individuals, also developed. We describe alternative positions throughout the history of psychology as to whether these approaches accomplish the goals of treating psychology as a natural science. From a historical account, the mechanistic worldview provides a foundation for psychological science, as compared to a contextualistic worldview. We conclude that a mechanistic worldview, as seen in the history of psychology, has appropriate goals for the approach of continuing psychology's development as a natural science, with the distinction between worldviews remaining a prominent philosophical task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The increasing popularity of the Bayesian approach in Psychology has prompted metascientific efforts to quantify its prevalence. However, despite enduring debates between proponents of Frequentist and Bayesian schools of thought, no systematic comparison of their prominence has been conducted in existing literature. This brief report fills this gap, examining Bayesian and Frequentist trends in the period from 1964 to 2023 through a meticulous search in PsycINFO. The findings reveal that the Frequentist approach has consistently been more popular than the Bayesian approach in the realm of Psychometrics and Statistical Psychology. However, Bayesian contributions steadily increased from the 80's onward and appear to be almost as important or even surpassing the Frequentist counterparts in the latest years investigated (2019–2023). Although this observation applies primarily to specialized literature rather than the entire domain of Psychology, it underscores the growing prevalence of the Bayesian approach, signaling attention among specialists in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its long period of dominance, the details of associationism as developed by the British Empiricists in the 18th and 19th centuries are often ignored or forgotten today. Perhaps as a result, modern understandings of Empiricist associationism are often oversimplified. In fact, there is no single core view that can be viewed as definitional, or even weaker, as characteristic, of the tradition. The actual views of associationists in this tradition are much more diverse than any such view would allow, even on fundamental aspects of the concept of association. This paper presents some of the most striking theoretical diversity and most significant discussions within the Empiricist associationist tradition. Recognizing this diversity, Empiricist associationism is best viewed as a project with shared questions and methods rather than a shared substantive theory of mind. This discussion can inform our understanding of the historical tradition, and also inform our current use of association and associationism. The concept of association is more flexible than it is often treated, and even its basic nature and function remain up for debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The invention of film technologies in France at the end of the 19th century inspired neurologists and associated professionals to engage with this new medium to demonstrate their theories of the brain, the nervous system, and the mind. Beginning with the origins of cinema in Paris, this article explores how film technologies were used at La Salpêtrière, and beyond, to visualise internal mental processes, and to support the burgeoning sciences of the mind. This film-making became increasingly sophisticated by the late 1910s and early 1920s, creating innovative ways to present psychological experiences on film. This article focuses on films produced by Albert Londe, Vincenzo Neri, Gheorghe Marinescu, and Jean Comandon. It argues that these polymaths created new filming techniques that built complexity into the visual articulation of psychological concepts. Their films were essential to shaping early debates in neurology, psychology, and the observational sciences during this critical period in the establishment of the modern sciences of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For historians of psychology, Hugo Münsterberg is best remembered as William James' successor as director of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory and a pioneer of applied psychology. By contrast, for film and media studies scholars, Münsterberg is recognized less for his contributions to experimental psychology than for those to film theory, a field in which his penultimate book, The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (1916), is frequently claimed as an inaugural text. However, lost in the blind spots of both disciplinary perspectives has been a thorough examination of Münsterberg's collaboration with Paramount Pictures, translating psychological tests into experimental short films. Despite reaching millions of moviegoers in 1916, Münsterberg's 'Testing the Mind' series has received little attention from historians of science and early cinema alike. One reason for this neglect is that, to date, not a single extant copy of a 'Testing the Mind' release has been located. This article is about the author's efforts, in collaboration with students, to reanimate these lost psychological tests for the screen through meticulous historical reconstruction based on the original scripts, journalistic accounts, and correspondence between Münsterberg and Paramount. This reconstructive process, I show, yields new insights into the relationship between psychology and early cinema and an opportunity for reflection on this promising new space for research at the intersection of media archaeology, the history of psychology, and experimental history of science. Film URL: https://archive.org/details/munsterberg_paramount.pictographs [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a list of contributors to the Journal of Analytical Psychology. It includes information about each contributor's background, areas of expertise, and publications. The contributors come from various countries and have diverse perspectives, covering topics such as ethics, trauma, mythology, politics, gender, and cultural studies. Their work explores the intersection of analytical psychology with fields such as anthropology, psychoanalysis, religion, and art. The contributors have published books, articles, and participated in workshops and lectures, making valuable contributions to the field of analytical psychology. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the emergence of psychotherapy as a historical subject in its own right. It highlights the efforts of historians to study psychotherapy as a distinct discipline and explores the challenges and complexities involved in defining and understanding psychotherapy. The article reviews a two-volume critical history of psychotherapy by Renato Foschi and Marco Innamorati, which aims to provide a comprehensive and nuanced account of the development of psychotherapeutic practices. The authors employ primary sources to tell the stories of various psychotherapists and their systems, while also incorporating secondary sources to frame their narratives. The article acknowledges the dense and unwieldy nature of the subject matter and suggests that the volumes could have benefited from better organization and signposting. Overall, the article recognizes the importance and value of Foschi and Innamorati's work in establishing a programmatic basis for the study of the history of psychotherapy. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the concept of unconscious imagination and challenges the notion that imagination can only occur consciously. The author critiques previous arguments for unconscious imagination and proposes an alternative view using the Predictive Processing framework. The article emphasizes the importance of understanding the cognitive processes underlying imagination and suggests that further exploration within frameworks like Predictive Processing is needed to fully comprehend the role of imagination in cognition. [Extracted from the article]

Durganand Sinha was a true visionary in proposing the integration of Indian psychological thought with modern psychology. Post the publication of his 1965 article, there have been certain developments in the growth of the discipline of Consciousness Studies, which explicitly bear the mark of his contentions. As far as India is concerned, he most certainly influenced the growth of Indian Psychology (IP). Building on his insights while simultaneously critiquing them, the commentary concludes by offering new pathways as to how IP can be advanced as a discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the early history of existential-humanistic developmental psychology. It is argued that this area of inquiry was built upon the pioneering work of a heterogeneous array of authors from numerous backgrounds, including American humanistic psychology, European existential and phenomenological psychology, social and self-styled psychoanalysis, personalistic psychology, comparative psychology, Gestalt psychology, education and pedagogy, philosophy, and anthropology. The conceptual yield of the historical overview was distilled down to a cluster of four broad themes: the whole developing person-in-context, lived time, the living body, and an enduring call to pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inclusion of women psychologists in arenas of academic and professional recognition has been a slow and often invisible process. This study seeks to highlight the scientific contributions of six women psychologists classified as eminent during the twentieth century (Haggbloom et al., Review of General Psychology, 6(2), 139–152, 2002) and the contexts in which they developed. Applying a historiographic and bibliometric approach, we analyzed biographical data and scientific contributions by reviewing the Web of Science, Scopus and APA PsycNet databases. The results show the broad contributions of the six psychologists to the field of psychology in the areas of experimental psychology, childhood and memory. We discuss the importance of rendering visible and overcoming the epistemic injustices to which women in psychology are subject, as well as the resistance and strategies many of them used to confront the structural limitations of this environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors argue for a decolonial history of psychology that will assist in the creation of psychologies (and their histories) that are true to place and time. We briefly place contemporary history of psychology as being of service to hegemonic psychology, which has continued to enforce a coloniality of being, knowing, and doing. We outline some of its limitations in regard to individualism, neoliberalism, and the ideologies of the market. In contrast, we articulate a way to begin to reconceptualize a psychology and its history that may serve to honor and respect multiple ways of knowing and being. We offer examples of emergent approaches that are being created that are non-dualistic, non-WEIRD, and focused on lived experiences in particular places and settings. The authors are mindful of the limitations of offering superabundant examples of each point due to the length constraints that accompanied the invitation to submit this manuscript. We encourage interested readers to explore the references for additional nuances and examples of the main points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a historical perspective, 'psychology' can be studied from an abundance of angels. Thus, a selected perspective requires some historiographical reflections, but also a conscious awareness of the actual chosen terms that are at stake. In this study, the historiographical perspective follows an emergent understanding of the history, which implies that the actual chosen terms are dynamically contributing to a web of terms, in which all of them may change in more or less unpredictable directions. In line with this, the aspect of music is consciously chosen, as it probably is one of the most ignored aspects of psychology in historical research. Thus, the findings in this study reveal that music as the 'direct factor' played an overarching role in the nineteenth centuries experimental psychology, but also that the changes in the understanding of music in the early sixteenth century is comparable with the changes the understanding of the soul underwent along with the introduction of the neologism 'psychology'. In the understanding of both music and the soul the sensational aspects replaced the mathematical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adolf Horwicz (1831–1894) was the main public critic of Wilhelm Wundt's election for the chair of philosophy at the Universität Leipzig in 1875. Horwicz's book titled Psychologische Analysen auf physiologischer Grundlage published in 1872 had a great impact on his contemporaries. Two years later, Wundt published Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie (1874) and with Horwicz's books were recognized as the most representative books of the emerging physiological psychology. Finally, Horwicz and Wundt had a debate published in Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie during 1879–1880 in where Wundt affirmed that many of Horwicz's research results were deduced from preconceived ideas without using a clear method. For that reason, Horwicz considered that Wundt's criticisms were aimed at destroying his scientific reputation. The debate is the materialization of a long professional struggle that took place between professional philosophers and physiologists who began to occupy chairs of philosophy in the early 1870s. The debate can be summarized in the following questions: (a) Should psychology have as its main objective the search for a single physical–biological process to which all other psychical processes are reduced? (b) Should psychological research use an inductivist reasoning? (c) What should be the relationship between philosophy and the psychological psychology? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article briefly reviews the development of the history of psychology as a specialized discipline in Peru, in order to learn about the emergence, organization and productivity of the Peruvian Society of the History of Psychology (SPHP), which was founded in 2012. Previously, by way of introduction, the advances in the institutionalization of the history of psychology in Latin America and the development of the historiography of psychology in Peru are described. Seminars, journals, and books edited by the SPHP are discussed, as well as new projects and the challenges that must be faced for a greater dissemination of the history of psychology in Peru. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: As an important trend in the research on and practice of mindfulness, second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs) expanded components and emphasized ethics and wisdom. The current article proposes another important feature of SG-MBIs, the cultivation of ideal mentalities, such as the nondifferential four immeasurables (i.e., equal prosocial attitudes toward different people) and mentalities of emptiness or oneness. Method: The current article theoretically discusses and analyzes the challenges and contributions of SG-MBIs in cultivating ideal mentalities. Results: The new feature of SG-MBIs, cultivation of ideal mentalities, leads to five interconnected challenges for research and practice: (1) providing empirical and theoretical support for new elements; (2) matching the purposes of interventions with the needs of trainees; (3) achieving ideal mentalities during interventions; (4) assessing ideal mentalities in proper ways; and (5) clarifying the ethics and values for trainees. Conclusions: These challenges posed by the new feature need to be discussed and addressed in the future. Nevertheless, SG-MBIs effectively embody the objectives of ideal psychology and illustrate methodological principles in research on ideal mentalities, which will benefit research on other ideal mentalities rooted in different traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship between sexology, censorship, and the regulation of sexual knowledge in early twentieth-century Britain and Germany. It argues that while censorship posed a threat to the dissemination of sexological knowledge, many sex researchers actually supported the careful regulation of sexual knowledge. They believed that scientific understanding of human sexuality was important and should guide sexual life. The article also discusses how appeals to nature were used to justify the dissemination of sexual scientific ideas and counter arguments against such knowledge. The understanding of the sexual instinct as changeable and open to influence shaped sex researchers' views on censorship and the emergence of sexology as a field. The article concludes by highlighting the complexities and contradictions surrounding censorship and the dissemination of sexual scientific knowledge. [Extracted from the article]

Sean D. Kirkland's book, "Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle," examines Martin Heidegger's method of destruction in his interpretation of Aristotle and Western philosophy. Kirkland argues that destruction is a way to uncover overlooked aspects of an author's works and address tensions within their philosophy. Heidegger's focus on destruction aims to move beyond mere presence and explore the Greek approach to Being. The book emphasizes the importance of historical texts in the phenomenological project and the need to analyze the meaning of Being. It also discusses Heidegger's critique of Aristotle's philosophy and his emphasis on the concrete whole and language as crucial aspects of human existence. The text concludes by suggesting that Heidegger's later works continue to engage with phenomenology and the deconstruction of tradition. [Extracted from the article]

Dr. Albert Ziegler, Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Research on Excellence at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, is a renowned expert in gifted education and educational psychology. He has published extensively on these topics and developed the actiotope model of giftedness, which promotes a systemic view of giftedness. Dr. Ziegler is particularly interested in learning resources and effective environments, self-regulated learning, mentorship, and talent identification. He has received significant funding for his research projects and holds leadership positions in various international organizations. Dr. Ziegler's work focuses on helping gifted individuals realize their potential and improve their personal development. He is also involved in the Global Talent Mentoring program, which aims to provide personal mentors to talented individuals worldwide. Currently, Dr. Ziegler is working on several research projects and writing books on topics such as the actiotope model, education and learning capitals, and artificial intelligence. [Extracted from the article]

The development of the concept of dreams in interwar Polish psychiatry and psychology was influenced by Western European concepts as well as by sociocultural factors of the newly independent state. Few Polish psychiatrists addressed the subject of dreams. They were influenced mainly by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic concept of dreams, but also by Alferd Adler's, Carl Gustav Jung's, and Wilhelm Stekel's ideas. Nevertheless, they approached psychoanalysis critically. The most comprehensive concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry was oneiroanalysis by Tadeusz Bilikiewicz. Oneironalysis was a method of dream analysis based on psychoanalysis but it rejected the psychoanalytic method of free associations and challenged psychoanalytic approaches to the interpretation of dream symbols. Polish psychologists were even less interested in dreams than psychiatrists. Problems with dreams, the most elaborate psychological work by Stefan Szuman consisted of an outline of epistemological problems with general theories of dreams and a harsh critique of psychoanalysis. The neglect of the subject of dreams in Polish psychiatric society can be seen as connected with the social and professional reception of psychoanalysis in Poland. Psychoanalysis was met with opposition from conservative scholars and publicists presenting nationalistic and anti‐Semitic attitudes. It was also criticized by the biologically oriented majority of psychiatrists of the Polish Psychiatric Association. In the case of psychology, the most influential Polish psychological school, Lvov‐Warsaw School, promoted Brentanian intentionalism, introspection, and psychology of consciousness, therefore, leading to psychologists' reluctance to explore unconscious states like dreams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a detailed analysis of the intellectual research project of Wilhelm Mann, one of the pioneers of experimental and educational psychology in Chile. Mann's work has been the object of so little analysis that his intellectual influences and networks are not clearly known. We analyzed 338 intratext citations from 22 works by Wilhelm Mann published during the period 1904–1915. As a result, we obtained a mapping of his cooperation networks and used a quantitative approach to study the authors who most influenced his career, among whom were William Stern, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Wundt, Alfred Binet, and Ernst Meumann. Mann was closely connected to the international and contemporary advances and discussions of his time, despite the lack of infrastructure and difficulties in communication. Mann was the first psychologist to develop a long‐term project in Chile that aimed to measure the individualities of Chilean students and their intellectual development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of the relationship between psychology and education in Chile has been documented with emphasis on the period from 1850 to 1950. This research adds to these efforts and explores the contributions of Professor Amanda Labarca, particularly those orientations that prioritized the application of psychology over its conceptualization. To do this, various primary sources from the first half of the 20th century are used, with a focus on the text Nuevas Orientaciones de la Enseñanza (New Teaching Orientations). Additionally, reception studies are incorporated to understand the circulation of these proposals. The results highlight the importance of the text as a means of disseminating psychological ideas, directed towards the application of the psychological discipline within schools. Students and teachers are also identified as key actors and the target population of these psychological trends. Teaching methods, variables prioritized in the learning process, as well as the principles of the new school, which were attempted to be implemented first as proposals and later observed in the implementation of the Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas, are highlighted. The findings invite further exploration of this transitional period in psychology to understand the practices that were well-received in the school environment, as well as to identify processes that could not be replicated. This reinforces the need to pay greater attention to women's proposals, from which direct links with psychology continue to be visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of psychology in Ghana has received research attention. However, documentation of regional or provincial history of psychology in Ghana has not received enough scholarly attention. In a resource-constrained setting, the least developed areas are often neglected, especially in terms of service provision and historical research. It is important that the progress of psychology in Northern Ghana, one of the least developed regions in Ghana, is examined to inform public policy decisions. In this paper, we discuss the history of psychology and its practice in Northern Ghana. We present the challenges faced by the profession in the region and some recommendations for improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After his release from prison in 1963, Ferenc Mérei (1909–1986), a Hungarian psychologist and pedagogue, started working at the National Institute of Neurology and Mental Health (OIE), where he and his colleagues established the foundations of Hungarian clinical psychology. The OIE was a closed institution dealing with mentally ill patients living on the margins of society, but prisonization also affected the healthy staff. Mérei did not see this liminal situation as a twist of fate but as an opportunity: it was not synonymous with social exclusion but a kind of inverted status in which it was possible to develop a framework for truth-telling and authentic living. According to Victor Turner's approach, people in a liminal state form communities and learn the implicit language that guarantees the conditions for truth-telling and protects truth-tellers from possible retaliation. Connotation is the key concept in this hermetic use of language, which, as Mérei writes, is "only a part of a hidden whole, known and understood only by the 'accomplices,' the 'initiated' [...]." By examining the expressions, "informal rank," "hiding kuruc ," "hiding college," and "hiding school," which often appear in Mérei's works, we can observe that these were not only the key concepts of his life story but also the outlines of the social organization of the socialist era in Hungary. They are concepts of a non-democratic age in which "real life" in the moral sense and "real achievement" in the scientific sense were politically persecuted. In this approach, what is seen, read, heard, consumed, and publicly available is all just a false front; the true spirit is forced into opposition or moved underground. This framework refers to the Rákosi and Kádár eras, but at the same time, it opens up to us the meta-history of centuries of persecution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document provides a list of contributors to the Journal of Analytical Psychology. The contributors come from various countries, including the UK, Australia, the USA, and Italy. They have diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, such as couple interaction, trauma, consciousness studies, mythology, and art therapy. The contributors have published books and articles on these topics and have presented at conferences internationally. Their work explores the intersection of psychology, culture, and identity. [Extracted from the article]

The given document provides updates and announcements from various organizations and individuals in the field of behavioral and social sciences. It includes information about new articles, books, podcasts, and awards. Notable highlights include John Benjafield's article on eminent psychologists, Paul Croce's chapter on James and medicine, and Mike Jay winning the Cheiron Book Prize for his book "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind." The document also mentions conferences, lectures, and changes in leadership within the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses a volume titled "Ideological and political bias in psychology: Nature, scope, and solutions." The volume is edited by Scott Lilienfeld, who unfortunately passed away in 2020. The remaining editors are known for their contributions on political bias in psychology. The volume includes contributions from various academics and covers topics such as race, sex, and gender. It argues that there is a perceived unfairness towards conservatives in psychology and calls for more conservative representation in the field. The article recommends the volume as a useful resource for historians of psychology, highlighting its comprehensive coverage of recent conservatism in psychology and insightful chapters. It also raises larger issues, such as the history of political bias in psychology and the politicization of the field. The article concludes by suggesting a re-examination of the concept of equality in psychology and psychology's role in a democratic society. [Extracted from the article]

In 2023 year, the world scientific community celebrates the 130th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian scientist Vladimir Nikolayevich Myasishchev (1893-1973). The preservation and integration of his heritage into modern Russian and world science remains a pressing issue. This study allows us to assert that A. Adler’s individual psychology was a common source in the genesis of psychotherapy methods of V.N. Myasishchev and A. Ellis. The material of this research consists of previously unknown correspondence documents of V.N. Myasishchev, stored in the Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation. V.N. Myasishchev’s works were of great interest to American psychotherapists and psychologists. This fact was confirmed by A. Ellis’s invitation to V.N. Myasishchev in 1964 on a month-long scientific tour to the Ivy League University and leading psychotherapeutic centers of the USA. This clearly indicates a certain contribution made by V.N. Myasishchev to the formation of the second wave of cognitive behavioral therapy methods.

Introduction. The first study of the history of Saratov organizational psychology was carried out by L. N. Aksenovskaya, who traced the development of the industrial and organizational direction at Saratov State University from 1971 to the present. The purpose of our research was to analyze the process of formation of organizational and psychological science in Saratov in the 1920s–1930s. Such historical and psychological methods as the analysis of information presented in scientific and reference publications, historical reconstruction, interpretation of factual material were used. Theoretical analysis. A study was conducted on the development of Saratov organizational psychology in the 1920s–1930s as an integral part of two directions – scientific organization of labor and psychotechnics. Conclusion. It is established that organizational psychology in Saratov developed in accordance with the general trends of the scientific process for the whole country. For research and practical work, divisions were created at provincial administrative institutions, regional branches of All-Russian scientific communities, experimental laboratories. The article presents the activities of three Saratov laboratories organized by engineers at the Saratov Institute of National Economy, doctors at the Provincial Department of Public Education, psychologists at the Department of Philosophy and Psychology of Saratov University (the heads respectively N. M. Dyakonov, I. L. Stychinsky, A. A. Krogius).

This paper supports the idea that the epistemology of Psychology had a relatively progressive line of development, and it was not only a constant swing between the primacy of two opposing perspectives: from out-side in and from in-side out. Although the recessive dynamics of these two metaphysical principles of Person Constructs Reality and Reality Constructs Person (Buss, 1978) was the critical marker of any significant paradigm change from the history of psychology, the development of psychological thinking has presupposed, in addition, a general evolutive path. I will demonstrate that these combined movements of alternation and progression form a unique complex sense of epistemological development of psychology accompanying the corresponding development of human personality level of self-reflection. Contrary to pessimistic views that interpret the reflexivity embedded in this dual paradigm shift to entrapping psychology to an eternal return, it actually propels the advancement of human self-reflective consciousness to a collective level of self-understanding. The final considerations are made about the current mainstream of psychological research and unreflexively practices detrimental to the substantiation of a Humanistic Psychological Science, which has become vital in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 2012 to 2023, the American Psychological Association served as publisher of Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain. Annabel Cohen and Mark Schmuckler were the successive editors-in-chiefs during this time. As the journal is ceasing publication, the two editors reflect on the development and progress of the journal in the context of the history of psychology and publication trends. They present their review in 10 short movements each with a unique musical emotional expressivity: overture, amabile, vivace, elegy doloroso, sforzando, capriccio, con brio, pendolo, agilmente, and finale risonante, ending on a very upbeat note! Early on, Psychomusicology offered a much-needed research forum for the psychology of music. More recently, the recognized importance of music psychology to almost all areas of psychology has led to increasing numbers of outlets for publication. During the 12 recent years under APA's stewardship, the journalmore than doubled the number of articles published since the journal's inception in 1981. The entire corpus of almost 600 articles represents foundational and well-cited contributions to such current research areas as musical expectancy, performance excellence, musical development, neuroscience, emotion, preference, and film music, among others. Cohen and Schmuckler express deep gratitude to the authors, past editorial board members, and reviewers for their contributions to this corpus, and to the American Psychological Association Publications office and staff both for support and, importantly, for holding and making accessible in perpetuity the outstanding scholarship within the archives of Psychomusicology: MusicMind & Brain and Psychomusicology: A Journal of Music Cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes our reconstruction of the apparatus used in C.S. Peirce and Joseph Jastrow's 1885 psychophysical experiment, "On Small Differences of Sensation" and how it relates to persistent questions in scientific theories of measurement. We situate Peirce and Jastrow's work in the broader context of nineteenth-century discussions about the status of psychology as a science and emphasize the role of measurement and experiment in determining that status. Through our re-enactment of the experiment, we analyze the experiment's methodology, which features blinding, randomization, noise control, and a technology for data recording. Our claims are illustrated by images of historical and reconstructed apparatuses, as well as graphs of the data collected in our reproduction. Our findings exemplify the relevance of history of psychology for contemporary philosophy of science and theories of measurement, and defend experimental reconstructions as a particularly fertile method of inquiry in the history of psychophysical sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work arises on the basis of a previous brief article, which was published in Memories of Contributions of Teaching, Research, Extension and Service, an event held at the Faculty of Psychology in 2012. That text was titled "Curricular proposal in the framework of community social psychology", and its authors were Leticia Marín, professor responsible for the optional Community Social Psychology Course, together with a team of teachers and students, among whom were: Fernando Mallea, Dante Corvalán, Gabriela Luciano, Carla Chiesa, Mariela Ávila, Juan Miguel Flores and Marcelo Muñoz. At that time, we presented in said article, an assessment of the first three years (2010-2012) of teaching the optional courses "Community Social Psychology" and "Methodologies and practices in the community psychosocial field" in the Bachelor's degree. Psychology. 10 years after that publication, it seemed important to us to return to such an assessment in order to recapitulate the journey made to date. To do this, first we will briefly refer to the origins of Community Psychology in Latin America and Argentina, understanding that the characteristics of said origin have an influence on how the emergence of our Psychology career has occurred. Secondly, we refer to the continuities and differences that we can establish between that evaluation of the course carried out in 2012, and the evaluation that we can make today, 10 years later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Edward B. Titchener is known to have been a chief advocate of controlled laboratory experiments in psychology in the United States in the field's earliest days. His intensive education as an experimental psychologist took place over 2 years under Wilhelm Wundt's supervision in Leipzig. Wundt was the major figure in the "new psychology" of the time, which indeed emphasized controlled laboratory experiments. This article describes Titchener's transition from Oxford to Leipzig in 1890, the general characteristics of Wundt and his Institute for Experimental Psychology, and the specific experiences that shaped Titchener's approach to psychology. In Leipzig, Titchener learned experimental psychology from courses taught by Wundt, Oswald Külpe, and others, as well as by serving as an experimental subject for others and by conducting his own experiments. By the time Titchener received his doctoral degree and left Leipzig in the summer of 1892, he had begun to drift from Wundt's approaches to psychological experiment, but he was prepared to begin to direct and develop his psychology laboratory at Cornell University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]