Two items bearing differently on "new history" of psycholog

Three cheers for psychology, Pleh ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:13:14 -0500 Send reply to: Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences <CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA> From: "Roger K. Thomas" <rkthomas(a)ARCHES.UGA.EDU> Subject: Two items bearing differently on "new history" of psychology To: CHEIRON(a)YORKU.CA 1. "During the last 50 years there have been two changes in the way in which scientists have studied the nervous system. First of all, the traditional and largely independent major scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology gave rise to the more specialized subdisciplines of neurophysiology, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, etc...AND THE SCIENCE OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY WAS BORN." (Emphasis added) The above written by A. David Smith appeared in the Preface for the IBRO (International Brain Research Organization) Handbook Series: Methods in the Neurosciences, Volume 17, In Situ Hybridization Techniques for the Brain edited by Z. Henderson (John Wiley & Sons, 1996). I understand it may appear in all volumes. I thank my former student and now Research Associate at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Dr. Cheryl D. Young, for bringing the Preface to my attention. 2. Yesterday, while looking for someting else, I happened upon an article titled "Psychological Studies of Historical Personalities" by Franklin Fearing in Psychological Bulletin, 1927, v.24, pp. 521-539. It addresses the "new history," leading rather early with a quotation from J. H. Robinson's book, The New History (1912), just as Laurel Furumoto did in her article of 1987. I admire Dr. Furumoto's work greatly and in no way do I wish to imply that Fearing's article diminishes Dr. Furumoto's article, but Fearing did address some of the same issues and quoted sources not cited by Furumoto that participants and observers of the "new history of psychology" may wish to consider. Roger K. Thomas, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Director, Franklin College (Arts/Sciences) Outreach Program Department of Psychology University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-3013 USA 706-542-3101 rkthomas(a)arches.uga.edu Csaba Pleh associate professor Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378 T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933