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Filled With People: The Teeming Mental Spaces of Melanie Klein.
We are never alone. From our first connections with other human beings, we start filling ourselves with them, melding not only their...
Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 5, 2024
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Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney's Gender Revolution.
How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank...
Dale DeBakcsy
Sep 16, 2024
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Bringing Science to Psychoanalysis: The Many Survivals of Sabina Spielrein.
The life of Russian psychologist Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) began in emotional and physical abuse, and ended with the murder of herself...
Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 7, 2023
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Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture: Marian Cleeves Diamond and Leda Cosmides
In 1964, two publications announced the beginning of two roads out of the centuries-long quagmire represented by the Nature Versus...
Dale DeBakcsy
Aug 21, 2023
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Children are People: The Life and Science of Anna Freud
Humans have a profound genius for generating terrible ideas. Slavery. Theocratic government. But there is one particular idea we hung...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 21, 2023
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Mary Ainsworth, Infant Anxiety, and the Case of the “Strange Situation”
We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...
Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 19, 2023
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More than the Sum of their Parts: Eleanor Maccoby’s Studies of Child Group Dynamics.
When Eleanor Emmons left home to matriculate at Reed College in 1934, she had life pretty well figured out. Her family’s Theosophy gave...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 11, 2023
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Margaret Floy Washburn and the Motion of Thought.
Margaret Floy Washburn (1871-1939) was the first American woman to receive a PhD in psychology (though not, as we learned from our time...
Dale DeBakcsy
May 10, 2023
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Self-Remembrance: Mary Whiton Calkins’s Adventures Among the Atomists.
By 1910, the woman whose brilliance had forced the doors of Harvard University open to women (if only in an unofficial capacity) and who...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 29, 2023
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Signs: Ursula Bellugi and the Neuroscience of Language.
Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Dealing: Dr. Iris Mauss and the Science of Emotion Regulation.
"Well Dale, we, the universe, hate to break it to you, but your desk is on fire, your copy of Thor 337 was lost in the mail, you've been...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Color Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century.
Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Workers as Humans: Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Founding of Industrial Psychology.
Humans have been building structures out of ceramic brick for five thousand years, and for four thousand nine hundred of those years the...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Separate. Mamie Phipps Clark and the Psychology of American Segregation.
Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Mary Ainsworth, Infant Anxiety, and the Case of the “Strange Situation”
We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Virginia Satir and the Art of Family Communication.
To many, Virginia Satir was an instinctive therapeutic genius, whose invention of family therapy has instructed untold millions of...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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Helene Deutsch, As-If Personalities, Adolescent Friendship, and the Art of the Quiet Revolution.
Helene Deutsch (1884-1982) was a fantastically successful clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who felt guilty about nothing quite so...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
35 views


Of Gifted Children and the Banality of Menstruation: The Educational Psychology of Leta Hollingworth
What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
210 views


Tsuruko Haraguchi: The Strenuous Road to Becoming Japan’s First Woman Doctor of Psychology.
Do Not Interact With Men Easily Do Not Dance Go to Church Every Sunday Spend Money From Home Wisely Do Not Become as Aggressive as an...
Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 27, 2023
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