1937 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DE BOER, Wilko
Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.
English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.
GMN 4963.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6358
1937 BRADLEY, Charles (1902 – 1979)
Behavior of children receiving benzedrine.
Bradley showed that racemic amphetamine, that is, the 50:50 mixture of d- and l-amphetamine isomers (Benzedrine®), was shown to reduce the impulsivity, distractibility, and inattention characteristic of Attention Defi…
GMN 7980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10156
1938 HARTLINE, Haldon Keffer (1903 – 1983)
The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.
Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…
GMN 1532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2858
1939 WECHSLER, David (1896 – 1981)
The measurement of adult intelligence.
Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…
GMN 11787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13989
1941 RIGGS, Lorrin Andrews (1912 – 2008)
Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.
Electroretinography
GMN 1533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2859
1948 WIENER, Norbert (1894 – 1964)
Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.
Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in engineering and biology, an…
GMN 4991.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6492
1948 KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956); POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001); MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)
Sexual behavior in the human male.
GMN 7038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9205
1949 DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)
The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
GMN 5015.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6600
1950 ERIKSON, Erik Homburger (1902 – 1994)
Childhood and society.
GMN 7537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9709
1952 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)
Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition
GMN 13155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15414
1953 –1956 PAVLOV, Ivan Petrovich (1849 – 1936)
Sämtliche Werke. 6 vols. in 10.
GMN 86.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1441
1953 KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956); POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001); MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014); GEBHARD, Paul Henry (1917 – 2015)
Sexual behavior in the human female
GMN 7037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9204
1954 MEIER, R; GROSS, F; TRIPOD, J
Ritalin, a new synthetic compound with specific analeptic components.
The authors identified Methylphenidate as a stimulant. It is sold under the trade name Ritalin, and other names.
GMN 7981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10157
1959 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)
Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.
GMN 13156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15415
1960 –1979 JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875 – 1961); ADLER, Gerhard (1904 – 1988); HULL, Richard Francis Carrington (1913 – 1974); FORDHAM, Michael Scott Montague (1905 – 1995)
The collected works of C. G. Jung. 20 vols. Edited by Gerhard Adler, Michael Fordham and Herbert Read. Translated from the German by R. F. C. Hull.
First collected edition, in English translation, published by the Bollingen Foundation created by Paul and Mary Mellon. Vol. 19, General bibliography, was revised and brought up to date for a second edition in 1990. V…
GMN 9377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11560
1961 YOUNG, Morris Nathan (1909 – 2002)
Bibliography of memory.
The most complete bibliography to date on this subject. Regarding Young, see the unusually interesting obituary in The New York Times at this link.
GMN 6945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9110
1961 LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
Thought reform and the psychology of totalism. A study of "brainwashing" in China.
GMN 8866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11044
1961 SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.
Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so t…
GMN 9648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11835
1962 LURIA, Aleksandr Romanovich (Алекса́ндр Рома́нович Лу́рия) (1902 – 1977)
Высшие корковые функции и их нарушение при локальных поражениях мозга.
First English translation: Higher cortical functions in man. New York: Basic Books, 1966.
GMN 7207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9374
1962 RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)
Development of psychological thought in India.
GMN 11836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14040
1963 KIELL, Norman (1916 – )
Psychoanalysis, psychology and literature: A bibliography.
Contains 4,460 references.
GMN 5019.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6640
1963 SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)
Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.
Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …
GMN 9647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11834
1966 –1974 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939); FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982); STRACHEY, James Beaumont (1887 – 1967)
The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. Translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson. 24 vols.
See also: Abstracts of the standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, edited by Carrie Lee Rothgeb, with an introduction on reading Freud by Robert R. Holt. (New York: Jason Aronson, 1973).…
GMN 86.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1466
1966 LACAN, Jacques Marie Émile (1901 – 1981)
Écrits.
Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, translated by Bruce Fink (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006).
GMN 7716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9888
1966 –1980 FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
The writings of Anna Freud. 8 vols.
GMN 9588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11775
1967 THOMPSON, Richard Frederick (1930 – 2014)
Foundations of physiological psychology.
GMN 8865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11043
1967 JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875 – 1961); DIE BIBLIOTHEKSKIMMISSION
C. G. Jung Bibliothek Katalog by Die Bibliothekskimmission.
GMN 11492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13691
1970 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.
GMN 9128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11307
1974 DIAMOND, Solomon
The roots of psychology. A sourcebook in the history of ideas.
GMN 5019.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6693
1974 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); GRUBER, Howard Ernst (1922 – 2005); BARRETT, Paul H.; PIAGET, Jean (1896 – 1980)
Darwin on man: A psychological study of scientific creativity by Howard E. Gruber. Together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett. Foreward by Jean Piaget.
In addition to a frequently original study of the development of Darwin's psychological theories, the authors publish for the first time two extremely significant manuscript notebooks by Darwin written in 1837. These …
GMN 8912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11090
1976 LANE, Harlan (1936 – )
The wild boy of Aveyron.
GMN 7486 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9658
1976 BETTELHEIM, Bruno (1903 – 1990)
The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
GMN 7519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9691
1978 DEWHURST, Kenneth Eastham (1919 – 1984); REEVES, Nigel
Friedrich Schiller: Medicine, psychology and literature. With the first English edition of his complete medical and psychological writings.
The medical writings of Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) and their influence on his poetry and plays.
GMN 6623.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7692
1979 BAKER, Henry J.; LINDSEY, J. Russell; WEISBROTH, Steven H.
The laboratory rat, Volume 1: Biology and disease. Edited by Henry J. Baker, J. Russell Lindsey, Steven H. Weisbroth.
Chapter 1: Historical Foundations by J. Russell Lindsey.
GMN 8474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10651
1980 MESMER, Franz Anton (1734 – 1815); BLOCH, George J.
Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.
Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …
GMN 9147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11326
1981 GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002)
The mismeasure of man.
A critique of statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism. "Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to individuals …
GMN 13068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15320
1984 ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322); BARNES, Jonathan (1942 – )
The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.
Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…
GMN 9098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11277
1986 BARSANTI, Giulio
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
GMN 197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3508
1986 LIFTON, Robert Jay (1926 – )
The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide.
"The first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps" (Wikipedia).
GMN 8695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10872
1996 SULLOWAY, Frank Jones (1947 – )
Born to rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives.
GMN 7520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9692
1999 TAVES, Ann (1952 – )
Fits, trances, & visions: Experiencing religion and explaining experience from Wesley to James.
"Fits, Trances, and Visions (1999) charts the experience of Anglo-American Protestants and those who left the Protestant movement beginning with the transatlantic awakening in the early 18th century and ending with th…
GMN 12754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15000
2001 KIRSCH, Thomas B. (1936 – 2017)
The Jungians: A comparative and historical perspective.
The first book on the history of the profession of analytical psychology from its origins in 1913. Because Kirsch was personally involved in many aspects of Jungian history, he was well equipped to write the history o…
GMN 9927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12115
2003 POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ); WRIGHT, John P.
Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.
GMN 8405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10582
2005 BORCK, Cornelis
Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.
Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.
GMN 9945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12133
2007 YOUNG, Jacy L.; LEE, Shayna Fox; GREEN, Christopher D. (1959 – )
Advances in the History of Psychology: A current look at the history of psychology, with news, notes, and additional resources. Edited (in 2018) by Jacy L. Young and Shayna Fox Lee. Faculty Consultant: Christopher D. Green.
https://ahp.apps01.yorku.ca/ "Advances in the History of Psychology is a news and notes aggregator pertaining to the history of the discipline. "AHP notifies readers of resources, publications, conferences, and other …
GMN 9944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12132
2007 JAHODA, Gustav (1920 – 2016)
A history of social psychology: From the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the Second World War.
GMN 13331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15599
2008 HARRINGTON, Anne
The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.
GMN 7569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9741
2010 HOLMES, Brooke (1976 – )
The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.
GMN 8430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10607
2011 YARNELL, John L.
Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.
"By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering a…
GMN 13906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16198
2013 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); DAVIES, Daniel; SINGER, Peter N.
Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.
In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessaloniki, central Macedonia, Greece. The manuscript, identified …
GMN 7691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9863