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THIS WEEK IN THE
HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

 

 

A podcast series by

Christopher D. Green

York University, Toronto, Canada

 

Page last modified 1 March 2012


 

This Week in the History of Psychology (which we call by the slightly silly name of TWITHOP)

was originally a weekly podcast, produced in 2006-07. It was written and produced by

Christopher D. Green, professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada.

 

Since the original series (which is still available below) the format has evolved in various ways:

interviews, discussions, reviews – everything related to the history of psychology.

(I also toned down the bright red background that Vaughan Bell at “Mind Hacks” complained about!)

 

As always, the primary intended audience is students in college and university courses on the history of psychology.

We always welcome teachers using these podcasrts as “assigned listening” in their courses.

 

 

To subscribe, copy this URL into your RSS aggregator:

http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/twithopfeed.xml

 

You can contact the producer at twithop@yorku.ca


 

New at TWITHOP!

 

 

2012

 

New series: TWITHOP:shorts

Brief reviews of important, recently-published journal articles on the history of psychology.

 

Episode 1 (forthcoming).Little Albert: A neurologically impaired child

by Alan J. Fridlund, Hall P. Beck, William D. Goldie, & Gary Irons.

Published in History of Psychology (2012)

Review by Christopher Green

 

2011

 

New mini-series: The History of Psychology Laboratory (HooPLa!)

Moderated by Christopher Green

 

Episode 1. Mental Asylums

Jennifer Bazar leads a discussion of the history of these

qunitessential Victorian Institutions.

Where did they come from? Where di they go?

Discussants include: Jeremy Burman, Jacy Young

 

Episode 2 (forthcoming). Mental Testing

Jacy Young leads a discussion about the origins of the

Mental Testing movement, and its transformation into a

full-fledged “industry” in the early 20th century.

 

 

2010

Humanistic Psychology.

Vincent Hevern (LeMoyne College), Robert Kugelman (U. Dallas),

and Henderikus Stam (U. Calgary) discuss the history and legacy of psychology’s “Third Force.”

 

 

2009

Interview with David Baker

Director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology

(and now, the Center for the History of Psychology)

University of Akron

 

 

 


 

Original 2006-07 Episodes

 

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). Each episode is about 25 minutes in length and is freely available to anyone who is interested in the topic.

 

 

 

Fall dates. Featured interview.

 

Aug 28-Sep 3. Raymond Fancher on Sigmund Freud's only trip to the United States.

 

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 Columbia University.

 

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 won and lost by psychologists and "near-psychologists."

 

 

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.