A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience

Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM

Dale DeBakcsy

• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781399032377
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Women in History
• Index: History

Since virtually its first moments as an academic science, women have played a major role in the development of psychology, gaining from the outset research opportunities and academic positions that had been denied them for centuries in other branches of scientific investigation. Look wherever you will, in any branch of psychology or neuroscience in the last century and a half, and what you will find are a plethora of women whose discoveries fundamentally changed how we view the brain and its role in the formation of our perceptions and behaviors. A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience tells the story of 267 women whose work opened new doors in humanity's ongoing attempt to learn about its own nature, from Christine Ladd Franklin's late 19th century studies of how the brain perceives color to Virginia Johnson's pioneering studies of the human sexual response, and Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke's early association of neurological conditions with their underlying brain regions to May-Britt Moser's Nobel-winning discovery a century later of the grid cells that allow us to mentally model our surroundings. Here are the stories of when and how we learned how memories are formed, what role an enriched environment plays in mental development, why some individuals are better able to cope with chronic stress than others, how societal stereotypes unconsciously feed into our daily interactions with other people, what role evolution might have played in the formation of our social habits, what light the practices of sign language might shed on our brain's basic capacity for language, how children internalize the violence they experience from others, and hundreds of other tales of the women who dug deep into the structures of the human mind to uncover, layer by layer, the answers to millennia-old questions of what humans are, and why they behave as they do.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Colour Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 2 The Woman of a Thousand Brains: Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, Pioneer Neuroscientist
• Chapter 3 Self-Remembrance: Mary Whiton Calkins’s Adventures Among the Atomists
• Chapter 4 The Two Montessoris: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of an Educational Revolution
• Chapter 5 Margaret Floy Washburn and the Motion of Thought
• Chapter 6 Generations: The Neuroscience Dynasty of Cécile and Marthe Vogt
• Chapter 7 Brief Portraits: The Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 8 Workers as Humans: Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Founding of Industrial Psychology
• Chapter 9 Filled With People: The Teeming Mental Spaces of Melanie Klein
• Chapter 10 Helene Deutsch, As-If Personalities, Adolescent Friendship and the Art of the Quiet Revolution
• Chapter 11 Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: Karen Horney’s Gender Revolution
• Chapter 12 Bringing Science to Psychoanalysis: The Many Survivals of Sabina Spielrein
• Chapter 13 Tsuruko Haraguchi: The Strenuous Road to Becoming Japan’s First Woman Doctor of Psychology
• Chapter 14 Of Gifted Children and the Banality of Menstruation: The Educational Psychology of Leta Hollingworth
• Chapter 15 Come Together? Inez Prosser and the Psychological Impact of Mixed Schooling Systems
• Chapter 16 Children are People: The Life and Science of Anna Freud
• Chapter 17 Neuroembryology in Wartime: Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery of Nerve Growth Factor
• Chapter 18 Mary Ainsworth, Infant Anxiety and the Case of the ‘Strange Situation’
• Chapter 19 Separate: Mamie Phipps Clark and the Psychology of American Segregation
• Chapter 20 Virginia Satir and the Art of Family Communication
• Chapter 21 More than the Sum of their Parts: Eleanor Maccoby’s Studies of Children in Groups and the Adults they Become
• Chapter 22 Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
• Chapter 23 Edith Graef McGeer, the Great Neurotransmitter Race and a Glimpse towards the End of Alzheimer’s
• Chapter 24 Virginia Johnson and the Development of Effective Sex Therapy
• Chapter 25 Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: The Enriched Heredity of Marian Cleeves Diamond and the Evolutionary Psychology of Leda Cosmides
• Chapter 26 Brief Portraits: The Early Twentieth Century
• Chapter 27 Signs: Ursula Bellugi and the Neuroscience of Language
• Chapter 28 When Memory Has Gone: Suzanne Corkin’s Journeys through the Hippocampus
• Chapter 29 Filling in the Gaps: Naomi Weisstein’s Active Brains and Activist Life
• Chapter 30 Making Working Memory Work: The Multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Patricia Goldman-Rakic
• Chapter 31 Life on the Grid: Nobel Laureate May-Britt Moser and the Fine Art of Knowing Where You Are
• Chapter 32 Dr. Tania Singer and the Neuroscience of Empathy
• Chapter 33 Dealing: Dr. Iris Mauss and the Science of Emotion Regulation
• Chapter 34 Brains In Love and Brains Alone: The Social Neuroscience of Stephanie Cacioppo
• Chapter 35 Achtung, Brainy: Grace Lindsay and the Mathematical Modeling of the Human Brain
• Chapter 36 Brief Portraits: The Modern Age
• So… What Does That Mean?: A Glossary of Frequently Used But Kind of Weird Terms
• Selected Bibliography
• Plates Section