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Reflecting upon "progress": Zhang yaoxiang and the science and history of psychology in Republican China. 对“进步”的反思：张耀祥与民国心理学的科学史。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-04-06 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000293

Ying Zhou, Guo Jin, Zhonghong Xiao

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A medieval text on mental disorder: Constantine the African on melancholy. 关于精神障碍的中世纪文本：非洲人君士坦丁论忧郁。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000289

Simon Kemp

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Emilio Bodrero at the crossroads of fascism and the crisis of psychology. 埃米利奥·博德雷罗站在法西斯主义和心理学危机的十字路口。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000285

Andrea Romano, Renato Foschi

{"title":"Emilio Bodrero at the crossroads of fascism and the crisis of psychology.","authors":"Andrea Romano, Renato Foschi","doi":"10.1037/hop0000285","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000285","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyze how fascism influenced the crisis of Italian psychology, a phenomenon already highlighted in historiographical literature (Hatfield, 2012; Lombardo, 2014, 2015; Mandler, 2011; Mülberger, 2014a, 2014b; Sturm & Mülberger, 2012). Fascism shaped Italian culture by establishing a regime that ultimately denied fundamental constitutional rights, such as freedom of association and political pluralism, and by shifting cultural orientations. Initially rooted in a secular and anticlerical framework, the regime later granted Catholicism a special status, formalized through agreements with the Catholic Church in 1929 (the Lateran Pacts). During this period, key figures in Italian intellectual life, such as Emilio Bodrero (1874-1949)-a nationalist philosopher, rector of the University of Padua, and Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education-rose to prominence. This article will examine his correspondence with psychologists, highlighting how the crisis of Italian psychology was a microhistorical aspect of a broader transformation occurring at the macrolevel across Italian society during the fascist era. Ultimately, the shifts in psychology during Bodrero's tenure coincided with the discipline's wider crisis in Italy. Studying his case may provide an empirical lens for understanding the historiographical concept of crisis. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"46-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145936063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The history of (not) understanding autism: From Hugh Blair and "The wild boy of Aveyron" to ICD-11 and the DSM-5-TR. （非）理解自闭症的历史：从休·布莱尔和《艾维龙的野男孩》到ICD-11和DSM-5-TR。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000291

Magdalena Pierucka, Anna Pakalska, Paweł Zagożdżon, Dorota Dydjow-Bendek

{"title":"The history of (not) understanding autism: From Hugh Blair and \"The wild boy of Aveyron\" to ICD-11 and the DSM-5-TR.","authors":"Magdalena Pierucka, Anna Pakalska, Paweł Zagożdżon, Dorota Dydjow-Bendek","doi":"10.1037/hop0000291","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000291","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the complicated history of understanding and defining autism is presented. Descriptions of important contributors and studies that are not widely known or remembered are also included and incorporated into the historical timeline. The first descriptions of probable cases of autism date back to the 18th century, but at that time, the individuals were diagnosed with mental retardation or \"silent madness.\" When the term autism was coined by Eugen Bleuler, it was related to the \"inner world\" to describe severe cases of schizophrenia. The first explicit description of autism, as we understand it today, was published in 1944 by Leo Kanner, who showed both similarities and differences between autism and childhood schizophrenia. Understanding the core problems related to autism took several decades. Groundbreaking studies conducted by Rutter et al. and Kolvin et al. determined that autism was separate from schizophrenia disorder 36 years after its official introduction (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, in 1980). In 1988, Rutter and Schopler stated that autism had the most validated diagnosis in child psychiatry. However, each subsequent classification introduced major changes and was significantly different from the previous ones. The aim was to optimize the diagnosis and provide optimal care for affected individuals. Our knowledge of autism is broad, and there are still allegations concerning the quality of the currently applicable classifications. Given how many years it has taken and the various approaches that have been used to understand autism, it may indeed be one of the most mysterious disorders in humans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"29 1","pages":"20-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147700779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Learning from students: An inquiry into Charles Spearman's research agenda. 向学生学习：探究查尔斯·斯皮尔曼的研究议程。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000286

Chabrian Tanguay, A Alexander Beaujean

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"What does the princess want?" Misogyny, Marie Bonaparte's "carnal community," and the pursuit of a scientific understanding of female pleasure. “公主想要什么？”厌女症，玛丽·波拿巴的“肉欲共同体”，以及对女性快感的科学理解的追求。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000278

Rémy Amouroux, Alix Vogel, Aude Fauvel

{"title":"\"What does the princess want?\" Misogyny, Marie Bonaparte's \"carnal community,\" and the pursuit of a scientific understanding of female pleasure.","authors":"Rémy Amouroux, Alix Vogel, Aude Fauvel","doi":"10.1037/hop0000278","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000278","url":null,"abstract":"In 1924, Marie Bonaparte, who would later become a prominent French psychoanalyst, conducted one of the first scientific surveys of female sexual pleasure. In contemporary discourse, her work on women's sexuality is characterized as an obsession, attributed to her allegedly frigid nature. This article draws on recently released archival materials from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, to replace Bonaparte in the history of sexology and women's struggles to make their voices heard in academic circles. Faced with misogyny and sometimes harassment, she was forced to bypass the male physician and create a \"carnal network\" through which she persuaded other women to be intimately measured and interrogated to understand the nature of female pleasure. Going back to the roots of Freud's famous question, \"What does woman want?\" and examining Bonaparte's quest for sexual freedom and her complex relationship with her famous analyst, we argue that Freud was not truly asking a question about femininity but rather warning his student about the restrictions women should place on themselves in the society. Overall, we suggest that Bonaparte's theses can be better understood through the conceptual framework of \"situated knowledges\" as articulated by Donna Haraway. Indeed, it is from her and other women's bodies that she produced a knowledge that competed with the dominating male gaze on women's bodies. Far from being the product of a frigid neurotic or a Freudian zealot, Bonaparte's work was an early manifestation of the collective empowerment of women in society throughout the 20th century. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"277-297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144200800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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"Subtleties of damage": Montréal, medicine, and migration in the making of intergenerational trauma. “伤害的微妙之处”：蒙特里萨，医学和移民在代际创伤的形成。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000284

Michael Pettit, Hannie Smolyanitsky

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Making safe spaces safer: Political activism, therapeutic culture, and the evolution of feminist consciousness-raising, 1968-1988. 使安全空间更安全：政治激进主义、治疗文化和女权主义意识提升的演变，1968-1988。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000283

Ulrich Koch

{"title":"Making safe spaces safer: Political activism, therapeutic culture, and the evolution of feminist consciousness-raising, 1968-1988.","authors":"Ulrich Koch","doi":"10.1037/hop0000283","DOIUrl":"10.1037/hop0000283","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores one of the origins of the notion of \"safe space.\" Its aims are twofold: First, by using the early history of feminist consciousness-raising (CR) as a lens, it draws out consequential shifts in the methods and rationales for creating and maintaining psychologically safe group environments. Second, by doing so, the essay aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding the use of safe spaces. The rules we today associate with the establishment of such environments (demanding confidentiality, suspension of judgment) were initially prompted by egalitarian concerns about power imbalances within CR groups. As the method circulated beyond circles of radical feminists in the early 1970s, however, its aims and targets changed, letting it converge with self-help and encounter groups. The reform-oriented National Organization for Women both aided in the wider diffusion of CR while also constricting the practice. As the epistemic aims of CR became deemphasized in the process, such groups now more often took on emotional-supportive functions. Safety concerns, in turn, shifted toward protecting participants from the potential psychological harms of group experiences. These psychological safety measures were subsequently adopted by psychologists and educators, whereas in activist circles, in the 1980s, safe spaces, similarly, became places of refuge from external oppression and internal strife. Making safe spaces safer in this way represented a fundamental shift in how psychological safety within group environments was conceived. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"312-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145379840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chester Middlebrook Pierce and the birth of microaggression. 切斯特·米德尔布鲁克·皮尔斯和微侵略的诞生。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000287

Stéphanie Pache

{"title":"Chester Middlebrook Pierce and the birth of microaggression.","authors":"Stéphanie Pache","doi":"10.1037/hop0000287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000287","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the historical context in which the concept of microaggression was produced and the psychological model that supported it. Microaggression has become a popular term used to describe the stress of minoritized groups beyond the experience of racism. This article presents a genealogical perspective informing the contemporary uses of the term. The concept of \"microaggression\" was developed by Black psychiatrist Chester Middlebrook Pierce (1927-2016), professor of psychiatry and education at Harvard University. Pierce played an important role in conceptualizing the relationships between the mental health of individuals and groups, and their environment. The career and story of Chester M. Pierce bear witness to the construction of the relation between racism and mental health in a therapeutic culture \"in the making.\" Through a selective biographical account of the career and research of Pierce, this article examines what brought him to coin the term microaggression. It also considers the wider context of the political mobilization of behavioral sciences to understand and address social inequalities in the United States. The notion of microaggression was a conceptual tool used by Pierce to describe how racism is perpetuated as a psychological phenomenon and to help develop awareness of the need to propose defensive strategies. The contextualization of Pierce's research and achievements aims therefore to contribute to the history of American \"therapeutic culture\" and the discussion of the role that psychological concepts such as microaggression are assumed to play in the psychologization of power relations and everyday life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":"28 4","pages":"298-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145907338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Making the interpersonal political: Social therapeutics and psy knowledge. 使人际关系政治化：社会治疗学与心理知识。

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History of Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000290

Ulrich Koch, Stéphanie Pache

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