Dale DeBakcsy
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Nov 7, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Aug 21, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Jul 21, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Jun 19, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- May 11, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- May 10, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 29, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
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...
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Dale DeBakcsy
- Apr 27, 2023
Virginia Johnson and the Development of Effective Sex Therapy.
In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...
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