Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Informational media review: The pluralization of the history of anthropology: BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology8
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Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s5
Technoscientific control of nature: The ultimate paradox4
The Jamesian mindSarinMarchetti (Ed.) Routledge, 2022. 568 pp. $250.00 (cloth). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐367‐14000‐74
Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Colonial CultureMarinaMassimiSeries: Latin American Voices. Springer Nature, 2021. 238 pp. $119.99 (cloth). ISBN 978‐3‐030‐60644‐2; 978‐3‐030‐60647‐34
Unconscious inferences in perception in early experimental psychology: From Wundt to Peirce3
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth‐Century British Psychiatry Åsa Jansson Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 234 pp. Open access (ebo3
Spitting on my sources: Depression, DNA, and the ambivalent historian3
California and the politics of disability, 1850–1970 By Eileen V.Wallis. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 353. $119.99 (cloth); $89 (ebook). ISBN: 9783031217135 (cloth); 9783031271142 3
Ideological and political bias in psychology: Nature, scope, and solutions By Craig L.Frisby, Richard E.Redding, William T.O'Donohue, & Scott O.Lilienfeld (Eds.), Springer. 2023. pp. 948. $159.99 3
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self‐Recognition in the Human SciencesKatjaGuentherPrinceton University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $39.95 (soft). ISBN: 9780691237251.3
Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century3
Code: From information theory to French theory By Bernard DionysiusGeoghegan: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 258. $26.95 (ebook). ISBN: 97814780236302
Frontier Struggles: Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism James Schlett Series: Center for the History of Psychology. University of Akron Press, 2021. 228 pp. $59.95 (paper2
Anatomy of a Train Wreck: The Rise and Fall of Priming ResearchBy RuthLeys, University of Chicago Press, 2024. 416 pp. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802268369592
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 97806749752312
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Uncovering Critical Personalism: Readings from William Stern's Contributions to Scientific Psychology James T. Lamiell Series: Palgrave Studies in the  Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmi2
Sigmund Freud (Critical Lives Series) byMattFfytche:Reaktion Books.2022. pp.224. pages. $22.00 (paper). ISBN 97817891457932
An ordinary future: Margaret Mead, the problem of disability, and a child born different ByThomas W.Pearson,Oakland:University of California Press.2023. pp.208. $27.95 (paper). ISBN: 97805203882912
Constructing economic science: The invention of a discipline 1850–1950 By KeithTribe, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp. 440. £74.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97801904917412
Les Synesthésies: Une histoire de leur découverte et des premières études scientifiques au cours du XIXe siècle; Synesthesias: A story of their discovery and the first scientific studies in the 19th C2
The miracle of Maglavit (1935) and the Romanian psychology of religion2
Conversations with Carl Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones. Richard Evans. Jodi Kearns (Ed.) The Center for the History of Psychology Series. The University of Akron Press, 2020. $24.95 (paperback).2
The evolution of knowledge: Rethinking science for the AnthropoceneJürgen RennPrinceton University Press, 2020. 584 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780691171982; 9780691218595 (paper); 9780691185675 (ebook)2
“It's a fight – the whole personality of the patient to win.” The development of concepts of psychosis in the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw, 1898–19432
Harold Garfinkel and Edward Rose in the early years of ethnomethodology2
Kinaesthesia in the psychology, philosophy, and culture of human experience By RogerSmith, London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 156. $51.96 (cloth); 19.96 (ebook). ISBN: 9781032435909 (cloth); 9781003368021 (2
The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Edited by MarkSolms in Collaboration With Ilse Gubrich‐SimitisRowman and Littlefield and the Institute of Psychoanalys2
Histories and cultures of mental health in Modern East Asia: New directions2
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Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education by Agustina S.Paglayan Princeton University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐961‐26127‐01
Disturbing spirits: Mental illness, trauma, and treatment in modern Syria and LebanonBeverly A.TsacoyianisNotre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 370 pp. $55 cloth; $43.99 EPUB/PDF. ISBN: 971
How the brain lost its mind: Sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illnessw Allan H. Ropper and Brian D. Burrell London: Atlantic Books, 2020. 256pp. $24.64. ISBN 978‐1786491800.1
The Huxleys: An intimate history of evolution, By AlisonBashford, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 2022. 576 pages. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 978‐0‐226‐72011‐11
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Out of the closet? Reconstructing the personal life of pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis1
Diversification and professionalization of psychology: the formation of modern psychology ByCsabaPléh: Routledge.2024. pp.582. $66.39 (paper/ebook). ISBN: 9781032625775; 978‐1‐032‐62580‐51
The power within: Mass media, scientific entertainment, and the introduction of psychical research into China, 1900–19201
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Freud and psychoanalysis: Six introductory lecturesBy JohnForrester, Cambridge UK and Hoboken NJ: Polity Press. 2023. pp. 224. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 97815095581241
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Talcott Parsons on building personality system theory via psychoanalysis1
Miracles of Healing. Psychotherapy and Religion in Twentieth‐century ScotlandGavinMillerEdinburgh University Press, 2022. 184 pp. £80.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781474446969; 9781474446976 (paper); 978147444691
Bonds of time and space: Divination and the psychiatric encounter1
Desperate remedies: Psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness AndrewScull Harvard University Press, 2022. 512 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97806742651031
Laying the foundations of independent psychology: The formation of modern psychology volume 1Csaba Pléh. Routledge. 2024. pp. 516. $59.99 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐032‐50276‐21
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Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the head readers: Literature, humor, and faddish phrenology By StanleyFinger, Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 332. $45.95 (cloth); $39.99 (ebook). ISBN1
Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty‐First CenturyAlyson K.SpurgasThe Ohio State University Press, 2020. 290 pp. $99.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐8142‐1451‐0; 978‐0‐8142‐5769‐2 (pap1
Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust: The Work of Peter Fonagy and Colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre Robbie Duschinsky and Sarah Foster Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. £50.00 (cloth & open acc1
Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing. KylieSmith Rutgers University Press, 2020. 192 pp. $28.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781978801455; 9781978801462 (cloth); 9781978801493 (p1
How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 320 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 978‐1‐5179‐0999‐4; 978‐1‐5179‐1000‐6 (cloth)1
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The Joint Commission on the Mental Health of Children, 1965–1970: Emotional disturbance, race and paths not taken in child psychiatry1
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Castration fever: On trans, China, and psychoanalysis1
The uncanny rise of medical hypnotism 1888–1914. Between imagination and suggestion by Gordon David LyleBates, Bristol, England: Palgrave Macmillan. 2023. pp. 265. $59.99 (cloth); $44.99 (ebook). ISBN1
Psychic investigators: Anthropology, modern spiritualism, and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age. EframSera‐Shriar, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022. 222 pages. $50 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐1
Reflections from pioneering women in psychologyJamilaBookwala, Nicky J.Newton(Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2022. pp. 366. $39.99 (ebook). ISBN: 97811088910041
The book history of Rona M. Fields's A Society on the Run (1973): A case study in the alleged suppression of psychological research on Northern Ireland1
Language as social action: Gertrude Buck, the “Michigan School” of rhetoric, and pragmatist philosophy1
The prescription‐to‐prison pipeline: The medicalization and criminalization of pain By MichelleSmirnova, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2023. pp. 176. $94.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9781
Reappraisal Review: Rudolph Hermann Lotze: Medicinische Psychologie oder Physiologie der SeeleNikolayMilkov (Ed.) Series: Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft. Springer, 2021. 708 pp. $69.99 (paper). ISB1
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Participant observers: Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain By FreddyFoks : University of California Press. 2023. pp. 280. $34.95 (soft/ebook); $85.00 (cloth).1
DSM: A History of Psychiatry's BibleAllan V.HorwitzJohns Hopkins University Press, 2021. 232 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 9781421440699; 9781421440705 (ebook)1
Unnerved: Anxiety, social change, and the transformation of modern mental health Jason Schnittker Columbia University Press, 2021. 272 pp. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802312003561
‘The Machine Takes Our Jobs Away’: The problem of technological unemployment in the work of Chicago sociologist William F. Ogburn1
Between drift and confinement: What can the study of “lunatics” in Hong Kong contribute to the historiography mental health in East Asia?1
Paying attention to each other. An essay on the transnational intersections of industrial economy, subjectivity, and governance in East Germany's social‐psychological training1
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Revival of psychology in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communist regimes1
The reeducation of race: Jewishness and the politics of antiracism in postcolonial thought BySonaliThakkar,Stanford University Press. 2024. pp. 288. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN: 97815036364461
Ever not quite: Pluralism(s) in William James and contemporary psychologyBy Saulo de FreitasAraujo and Lisa M.Osbeck, Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 150. $125 (cloth/ebook). ISBN: 97811088450211
The unwieldiness of psychotherapy and its history. A review of a critical history of psychotherapy (two‐volume set) By RenatoFoschi, MarcoInnamorati: Routledge. 2023. pp. 512. $232 (cloth). ISBN: 97811
On why history is never finished: Puységur, animal magnetism, and the importance of collective scholarship1
FORUM FOR THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES1
‘Aṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle EastJoelle M.Abi‐Rached. Series: Culture and Psychiatry. MIT Press, 2020. 344 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780262044745.1
Of visceral/somatic practices in healing1
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Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the HolocaustBy Roger Frie, Oxford University Press, 2024. 216 pp. $35 (cloth). ISBN: 9780197748770.1
Changes in Hungarian academic psychology after the end of “people's democracy”1
“All emigrants are up to the physical, mental, and moral standards required”: A tale of two child rescue schemes1
The crying boss: Activating “human resources” through sensitivity training in 1970s Sweden1
Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science By DuanaFullwiley, Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2024. 356 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐520‐40117‐41
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia George Makari Norton, 2021. 346 pp. $27.95 (cloth). ISBN 978‐0‐393‐65200‐01
Psychological research and practice in former Yugoslavia and its successors1
The urge: Our history of addictionCarl ErikFisherPenguin Press, 2022. 400 pp. $30.00 (cloth). ISBN 9780525561446.1
The neglected object: A history of the concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry and psychology in the interwar period, 1918–19391
Degenerateness, Mental Hygiene, and Spiritism: Debates in the Argentine Medical Press (1930–1946)1
Paul Ekman and the search for the isolated face in the 1960s1
Chimpanzee culture wars: Rethinking human nature alongside Japanese, European, and American cultural primatologistsNicolasLanglitzPrinceton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 352 pp. $95.00 (cloth). I1
Psychologization in and through the women's movement: A transnational history of the psychologization of consciousness‐raising in the German‐speaking countries and the United States1
Signposts to decolonial futures in understanding and addressing our present crises1
Entre médicos y médiums: Saberes, tensiones y límites en el espiritismo argentino (1880–1959). [Between doctors and mediums: Boundary work and Influences in a Spiritualism in Argentina (1880–1959).] B1
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Institutionalizing gender: Madness, the family, and psychiatric power in nineteenth‐century FranceJessieHewittCornell University Press, 2020. 252 pp. Open access (ebook). ISBN 9781501753329; 9781501751
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Remedies for the housewife's nervousness: Life advice in Abraham Myerson's popular self‐help texts, 1920–19301
Changing the guard: Organizational science and social psychology in the US army1
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Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology Neil McLaughlin Series: Public Sociology. Bristol University Press, 2021. 310 pp. $96.00 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1529214581; 978‐1529214604 (epub)1
Madness and enterprise: Psychiatry, economic reason, and the emergence of pathological value By NimaBassiri, University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 344. $35 (paper). ISBN: 97802268308961
Limits of empathy: The dementia tōjisha movement in Japan1
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The empire of depression: A new historyJonathanSadowskyPolity, 2020. 224 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 978‐1‐509‐53164‐6; 978‐1‐509‐53166‐0 (ebook)1
Young Foucault: The Lille manuscripts on psychopathology, phenomenology, and anthropology, 1952–1955ElisabettaBasso; Marie SatyaMcDonough (trans.) Columbia University Press, 2022. 331 pp. $30.00 (pape1
Laws of transgression: The return of Judge SchreberPeterGoodrich, KatrinTrustedt. University of Toronto Press. 2022. pp. 232. $75 (cloth). ISBN: 97814875091561
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962–1983)1
Asylum ways of seeing: Psychiatric patients, American thought and cultureHeatherMurray, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐8122‐5357‐31
A brief history of Romanian psychology1
Society on the edge: Social science and public policy in the postwar United States Phillipe Fontaine and JeffersonPooley (Eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280pp. £74.99 (cloth). ISBN 97811084871
Harvard's quixotic pursuit of a new science: The rise and fall of the Department of Social RelationsPatrick L.Schmidt: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 2022. pp. xiv + 249. $40.00 (paper). ISBN: 9781
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Behavioral Cetology in the 19th Century: Thomas Beale, Henry Cheever, Thomas Southwell and Their Role in Awakening a Cetacean Protection Consciousness1
Excursions in Rorschachlandia: Surveying the scientific and philosophical landscape of Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics1
Breaking point: The ironic evolution of psychiatry in World War II, RebeccaSchwartz Greene, (Foreword by NoahTsika.: Fordham University Press. 2023. 368 pp. $30 (paper). ISBN: 9781531500269.1
The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion By GrantBollmer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 279. $28 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1546‐91
Mad by the millions: Mental disorders and the early years of the World Health OrganizationHarry Yi‐JuiWuThe MIT Press, 2021. 240 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN 0‐2620‐4538‐91
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