THIS WEEK IN THE
HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
A podcast series by
Christopher D. Green
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This Week in the History of Psychology is a weekly podcast written and
produced by Christopher D. Green,
professor of psychology at The focus of
each episode is an interview with an expert on a featured event that occurred
during that particular week in psychology's past. In addition, each episode
begins with brief descriptions of several events from that week and ends with
a celebration of the week's birthdays (and other anniversaries). Episodes are
posted on-line weekly. To
subscribe to the podcast copy this URL into your RSS aggregator: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/twithopfeed.xml Or, if you are
using iTunes, simply click on the button: You can
contact the producer of the podcast at twithop@yorku.ca Director of the Archives of the
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Fall dates. Featured interview. Aug 28-Sep 3. Raymond Fancher on Sigmund Freud's
only trip to the Sep 4-10. David Baker on David Shakow's 1947
report to the APA that guides the training of clinical psychologists to the
present day/ Sep 11-17. Malcolm Macmillan on the life and
myth of Phineas Gage. Full interview with Malcolm
Macmillan (50 min). Sep 18-24. Alexandra Rutherford on B. F. Skinner's
1971 appearance on the cover of Time magazine. Sep 25-Oct 1. Michael Sokal on James McKeen
Cattell's 1917 dismissal from Oct 2-8. Wayne Viney on the 1890 publication of
William James's Principles of
Psychology. Oct 9-15. Thomas Blass on Stanley Milgram's
shocking studies of obedience. Oct 16-22. John Shook on the life of the founder
of the modern American school system, John Dewey. Oct 23-29. Lawrence Stern on the intelligence of
James McConnell's cannibalistic flatworms. Oct 30-Nov 5. Gerald Grob on the impact of the
Community Mental Centers Act of 1963. Nov 6-12. Ian Nicholson on the founder of modern
personality theory, Gordon Allport) Nov 13-19. Michael Rashotte on the last book by
revolutionary behaviorist. Clark Hull. Nov 20-26. David Robinson on the founder of
experimental psychology Wilhelm Wundt. Nov 27-Dec 3. William Tucker on the
controversial ideas of personality theorist Raymond B. Cattell. Dec 4-10. Ludy T. Benjamin Jr. on Nobel prizes
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Winter dates. Featured interview. Jan 7-13. Robert H.
Wozniak on the developmental and evolutionary psychologist, James Mark
Baldwin. Full interview with Robert H. Wozniak (53
min.). Jan 14-20. C. James
Goodwin on E. B. Titchener’s “Society of Experimental Psychologists.” Jan 21-27. Harry
Heft on James J. Gibson, the founder of ecological psychology. Jan 28-Feb 3. David
Baker on the psychograph [picture], the 1930s’
automatic phrenologist. Feb 4-10. Ludy T.
Benjamin Jr. on the 1988 splitting of the American Psychological Society from
the APA. Feb 11-17. Eric
Engstrom on Emil Kraeplelin, the man behind the modern categories of mental
illness. Feb 18-24. Charles
Brewer on John B. Watson, the founder of behaviorism. Feb 25-Mar 3.
William Tucker on the career of the controversial intelligence man, Cyril
Burt. Mar 4-10. Dorothy
Ross on the founder of the APA, Granville Stanley Hall. Mar 11-17.
Henderikus J. Stam on the first studies in which rats were run through mazes
[picture]. Mar 18-24. Wade
Pickren on pioneering African-American psychologist, Oran Eagleson. Mar 25-31. Katharine
Milar on the first woman president of the APA, Mary Whiton Calkins April 1-7. Raymond
Fancher on English polymath Francis Galton. April 8-14. Stanley
Finger on the trailblazing neurologist, Paul Broca, and his patient, “Tan.” April 15-21. Michael
Wertheimer on the founder of Gestalt
psychology, Max Wertheimer. |
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