After 16 years and nearly 2,500 posts, Advances in the History of Psychology is ending. Many thanks to our readers for their abiding interest in all things related to the history of psychology. It’s been a pleasure ..read more

AHP readers will be interested in a new open-access article in Social History of Medicine: “Tune in, Turn on: Religious Music and Spiritual Power in the History of Psychedelic Therapy,” Stephen Lett, Erika Dyck. Abstract: Psychedelic-assisted therapy has attracted considerable clinical attention in the past decade for its ability to bring therapeutic benefits to patients ..read more

AHP readers will be interested in a new piece in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences: “The neglected object: A history of the concept of dreams in Polish psychiatry and psychology in the interwar period, 1918–1939,” Jan Kornaj. Abstract: The development of the concept of dreams in interwar Polish psychiatry and psychology ..read more

A new open-access piece in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences will interest AHP readers: “Dance becomes therapeutic in the mid to late 20th century,” Janka Kormos. Abstract: The convergence of dance art and therapeutic culture engendered the development of dance-movement therapy in the mid to late 20th century internationally. This article ..read more

AHP readers may be interested in a recent book on the history of phrenology and physiognomy: Beauty and the Brain: The Science of Human Nature in Early America. The book is described as follows: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics ..read more

A new book on R.D. Laing and radical psychotherapy may interest AHP readers: Credo: R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy. The book is described as follows: Feldmár was three and a half years old when the Arrow Cross came and took his mother to Auschwitz, his father to labour service, and his grandmother to the ..read more

AHP readers may be interested in, and able to help identify the people within, the newly digitized National Training Laboratory still image collection at the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology (CCHP). As CCHP has announced: After months of digitization, the National Training Laboratory still image collection is now available in our online repository ..read more

AHP readers may be interested in a newly available resource: Royal Society Publishing recently launched our new history of science platform Science in the making [makingscience.royalsociety.org] that allows free access to digitised versions of over 30,000 archival items related to the publication of our journals from the past 400+ years. This is an extremely important and ambitious digitisation programme that presents the ..read more

AHP readers may be interested in a new piece in Science, Technology, & Human Values: “Artificial Intelligence from Colonial India: Race, Statistics, and Facial Recognition in the Global South,”Simon Michael Taylor, Kalervo N. Gulson, and Duncan McDuie-Ra. Abstract: This article examines the history of a similarity measure—the Mahalanobis Distance Function—and its movement from colonial India ..read more

AHP readers will be interested in a new piece in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences: “Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s,” Mélanie Henry. Abstract: This article focuses on the shift in sensitivities that took place between the 1980s and 2019 toward psychological suffering in Algeria. Promoters of ..read more