{"title":"The emergence of ‘Psychology’","authors":"F. Watts","doi":"10.5040/9781474269698.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474269698.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131568993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What has psychology got to do with education?","authors":"N. Wetherick","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.56","url":null,"abstract":"In an earlier paper in this periodical (Wetherick, 2017) I considered general philosophical issues that confront all scientists whatever their discipline. How is it that evolution has produced organisms that, being fully subject to the laws of chemistry/physics, can nevertheless formulate systems of law that govern the whole material world of which they form part? It is the essential characteristic of human beings that they produce models of their world, and psychology is concerned with the capacity to do that. In the second part of the paper I consider implications for educational psychology, arguing that it is hard to improve on the capacities for learning that have devloped through evolution, and that the scope of what can be achieved through education is limited. I go on to consider certain specialist areas of applied psychology (e.g. Autism, Mental Defect) which face problems of their own as practised at present.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116196445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The BPS Psychology of Women Section (POWs) – Power to change?","authors":"J. Burns","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.36","url":null,"abstract":"This paper plots the development of the BPS Psychology of Women Section (POWs) from its inception to the recent adoption of the new title of Psychology of Women and Equalities Section. Alongside this I reflect upon my own passage through my professional career in psychology, considering the interplay of my reflections as a ‘woman in psychology’ with the aims and ambitions of POWs. I set out four main endeavours; researching the things we are interested in, in the ways we wish to, finding a place in mainstream psychology and having an impact. I consider how well these aims have been achieved both from my personal perspective but also from the viewpoint of the section, and critically evaluate if POWs has, and will have, the power to change.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121139712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paying the price of naïve realism: A critical realist reflection","authors":"D. Pilgrim","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.51","url":null,"abstract":"Using critical realism, this note summarises the shortcomings of current psychology that arose from its disciplinary break from philosophy during the early 20th century. By seeking autonomy from the older discipline and its self-confident jurisdiction over the mind it paid a serious price. Methodologism, predicated on a naïve version of realism, drove the rationale of the new discipline, leaving psychologists unfamiliar with the metaphysical justification for their own theory and practice. The combined assumptions of empiricism and positivism, and their de-philosophised expression in psychological theory and practice, were to bring the discipline to a point of crisis in the second half of the 20th century. This crisis afforded the possibility of the ‘linguistic turn’ and ‘postmodern psychology’ (the unexplored end point to this note).","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116464223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early women members of the British Psychological Society: Challenges and achievements","authors":"Elizabeth Valentine","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"After sketching the background to British psychology in the early twentieth century, I will describe a sample of the sixteen women who were members of the British Psychological Society in its first two decades. I will then focus on what difference it made being a woman: (a) the challenges they faced in terms of limited access to education and restricted opportunities for employment; (b) their achievements and career paths; and (c) enabling factors such as personal qualities and strategies employed, including the management of their personal lives and support networks.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122806539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review article: The History of Emotions","authors":"F. Watts","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.66","url":null,"abstract":"There has been much recent work on emotion by historians, and three recent books on the history of emotions are reviewed: What is the History of Emotions? by Barbara H. Rosenwein and Riccardo Christiani; The History of Emotions by Rob Boddice; and The History of Emotions: An Introduction by Jan Plamper. Key debates are how to handle the fact that different periods have used different vocabulary for apparently similar emotions, how to find a path between the extremes of universalism and social constructionism, and how to characterise the social structures that regulate the expression of emotions. The work on emotions by historians includes a critical assessment of the study of emotions by psychologists.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"27 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120997440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in Psychology: Stories of Psychology 2017","authors":"A. Torn","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131469066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British projective test movement: Reflections on a queer feminist tale","authors":"Katherine A. Hubbard","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2018.19.1.26","url":null,"abstract":"In order to do queer history well a number of difficult challenges have to be overcome. Our understanding of sexuality has changed so much over time that historians must be careful and considerate when carving out ‘queer’ as a narrative. In this paper I will be outlining some of my analysis from my recent paper ‹Queer signs: The women of the British projective test movement’ in the Journal of the Behavioural Sciences and present some of the notable queer women involved in the early projective test movement. By paying attention to their queerness, in terms of their unusual and unconventional positions in a men-dominated early Psychology and their queer private lives, I add an additional lens through which we can consider early British Psychology. In reflection of this research I will draw upon two key issues central to this analysis. By reflecting upon the research project outlined here I argue it is not only important to recognise the work of these early queer women but also celebrate their work, their resistance and their unconventionality.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127693286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shotter’s legacy","authors":"J. Cromby, T. Corcoran","doi":"10.53841/bpshpp.2017.18.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpshpp.2017.18.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"In order to mark the significance of John Shotter’s life and work, this paper sets out and reflects upon two of his central concepts and emphasises their ongoing relevance. Shotter’s work is first situated in its intellectual and cultural-historical contexts. His linked concepts of ‘joint action’ and ‘knowing of the third kind’ are then briefly explained, and their relevance for recent social science developments including the ‘new materialism’ and the ‘affective turn’ is highlighted. We conclude that, in these turbulent times, Shotter’s is a legacy of hopeful aspiration.","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133365914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Recent History of Lesbian and Gay Psychology: From Homophobia to LGBT","authors":"P. Hegarty","doi":"10.4324/9781315563442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315563442","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":123600,"journal":{"name":"History & Philosophy of Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116679842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}