News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides information on current news from Division 26. Included in this section are Minutes of the 2005 Business Meeting of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26), New Business, History of Psychology Around the World: The British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre, Psychology on Film: The Prelinger Archives of Ephemeral Films and The Archives of the History of American Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents a series of noteworthy items regarding and relevant to Division 26 (History of Psychology). These items include: Statement From the Candidates for Division 26 Presidential Elections; Report From the February Council of Representatives Meeting; Proposed Amendments to the Division 26 Bylaws; Society for the History of Psychology 2004 APA Convention Program; Brief Report on the History Oversight Committee; and Personal News. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides the latest information about the Society for the History of Psychology. It contains Division news for the Division 26 of the American Psychological Association Society for the History of Psychology, meeting reports for the Society for the History of Psychology Program at the Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, call for papers, general member news, and reports from the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides the latest information about the Society for the History of Psychology. It contains Division news for the Division 26 of the American Psychological Association Society for the History of Psychology, meeting reports for the Council of Representatives and general member news. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

This News & Notes section of the History of Psychology Journal includes an Election Committee Report, Division 26 Awards for Contributions in the History of Psychology, Nominations for Division 26 Awards, call for program proposals for Division 26, fellows nominations, nominations for Division offices, a report of the 2001 Annual Meeting of Cheiron, call for papers for Cheiron, information about the 2001 British Psychological Society Centenary, donations to archives and finally personal news. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News and notes.

Presents news and notes from Division 26 of the American Psychological Association. Members may read the latest information about the Society for the History of Psychology on the division’s website (http://www.hood.edu/shp/). The webpage also provides instructions for members wishing to subscribe to the Society for the History of Psychology’s electronic mailing list. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

This News & Notes section of the History of Psychology Journal includes a Preliminary Division 26 (History of Psychology) Program for the 2001 American Psychological Association Convention, a message from Division President-Elect, information from the British Psychological Society, information on a forum for History of Human Sciences Article Award and finally, personal news. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Appointment of new editor.

The Executive Committee of the Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Society (Division 24 of APA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Teo as the fifth editor of Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (JTPP). Thomas Teo received his doctorate of philosophy from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has worked as a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany. He is now Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto. His research in historical and theoretical psychology is based on critical-hermeneutic analyses. He has also published on the transformation of psychology in nineteenth-century German philosophical psychology and on the history of race psychology and scientific racism. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006).

Presents an obituary for Gregory A. Kimble, a general psychologist who passed away on January 15, 2006. Dr. Kimble had a lifelong allegiance to a particular approach to psychological science, and he was a superb organizer, synthesizer, and explicator of psychological fact and theory. He had a lifelong commitment to APA's Division of General Psychology, and from that division, he received the Hilgard Award for Lifelong Contributions to General Psychology and, in appreciation for his years of service to the division, its C. Alan Boneau Award for Distinguished Service. Dr. Kimble also played significant roles outside of APA. He was a member of several other psychological societies, including the exclusive Society of Experimental Psychologists. He will be missed by his family, his legion of friends and associates, and by the APA convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News and notes.

This section of News & Notes provides the latest information about the Society for the History of Psychology. It contains announcements for the Division 26 of the American Psychological Association Society for the History of Psychology, meeting reports for the The Archives of the History of American Psychology and general member news. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

This article gives members information about The Society for the History of Psychology. It covers news of Division 26, which includes a letter from President Ben Harris. It also discusses the SHP election results of 2005, a call for presidential nominations, and awards. Then it covers the report on the August, 2005 Meeting of the APA Council of Representatives. Under the History of Psychology Around the World heading, notes from the report of the 2005 annual meeting of Cheiron are provided, as well as a call for papers for the 2006 meeting; information about the Psychology Museum at the University of Sydney, Australia is given; and a research project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin is described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Donald Pond Spence (1926-2007).

Donald Pond Spence, distinguished psychologist and psychoanalyst, was born on February 8, 1926, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on September 25, 2007, at the age of 81. He was an "inside" critic of psychoanalysis who supported its importance as a hermeneutic (interpretive) discipline but questioned its status as normative science. Spence served on review committees for the National Institute of Mental Health and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and served as president of APA Division 24, the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (1992-1993). In 2004, he received the Society's Lifetime Achievement Award. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Frederick Wyatt (1911–1993).

Memorializes F. Wyatt, who founded the Psychological Clinic at the University of Michigan in the 1950s. The clinic, devoted to the teaching and practice of psychoanalytically oriented therapy, achieved a reputation as the nation's best training agency of its type. Among his other achievements, Wyatt was president of Division 10 (Psychology and the Arts) of the American Psychological Association and president of the Society for Projective Techniques. He was editor or consulting editor of five scholarly journals and was three times a Fulbright Scholar. He published over a hundred articles and reviews on the widest range of topics, not only on psychotherapy and clinical issues, but also on philosophy, education, the family, and social change. (0 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Dale B. Harris (1914-2007).

During his long career, Dale B. Harris was at various times a teacher, author, editor, researcher, high school principal, organizational leader, department administrator, and government advisor. He is probably best known for his research on children's drawings, specifically, his extension of the work by Florence Goodenough that resulted in the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test. Harris was a participant in the famed Thayer Conference (1954) on school psychology. He was a delegate to the White House Conferences on Children and Youth in 1950 and 1960 and was active in several professional organizations, including the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He served as president of Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association in 1956. He was also active in community organizations, both in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Nevitt Sanford (1909–1995): Obituary.

Memorializes Nevitt Sanford, a psychologist who infused new life into personality and clinical psychology by introducing the psychodynamic perspective of psychoanalysis to academic empirical research. Nevitt was central in the establishment of the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research at Berkeley, and founded the Wright Institute there as well. Nevitt was a researcher and theorist about education and teaching, and a superb teacher. He was also president of the American Psychological Association's Division of Personality and Social Psychology and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Lee Salk (1926–1992).

Memorializes Lee Salk (1926–1992), a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a founder and president (1979–1980) of the Division of Child, Youth, and Family Services. He was also president of APA's section of clinical child psychology within the Division of Clinical Psychology. He received the APA National Media Award and APA's Distinguished Contributions Award in Clinical Psychology. His final book, Familyhood: Nurturing the Values That Matter, concluded from his work that family relationships are very powerful in setting people's life destinies and in providing their lifelong concepts of themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents information of interest to members of APA's Division 26. Included are an election committee report; details concerning Division 26's awards for contributions in the history of psychology; a call for program proposals for the Division; fellows nominations; and a call for papers for the meeting of Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Also included are personal news items; a synopsis of a conference to honor the achievements of John A. Popplestone and Marion White McPherson, hosted by the Archives of the History of American Psychology; and a synopsis of a conference on "Measurement, Redemption, and Control: The Psychological in American History and Culture", held at Yale University. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents some news and notes from the History of Psychology Division (Division 26) of the American Psychological Association. Some of the topics discussed include the Division's website, election results, nominations for the President, personal information on professionals in the field, and updates on Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"Society for Unification Psychology" formed (12-85).

The Society for Unification Psychology ("SUNI"—pronounced as "sunny") was formed by a group of psychologists concerned about the growing issues of diversity and fragmentation in psychology. The Society held its first organizational meeting at the 1985 APA convention. It is intended that SUNI will become a special interest group of APA's Division 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. The Society's purpose is to stimulate discussion of issues of unity and disunity in psychology by: (1) planning symposia and other presentations at APA and related conventions; (2) conducting Society interest group meetings at these conventions; and (3) publishing a Newsletter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Robert Stevens Harper (1922–1996).

Reports the death of Robert Stevens Harper. Harper was a fellow in the Division on the Teaching of Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), in the American Psychological Society, and in the Psychonomic Society. Harper was founding president of the APA's Council on Undergraduate Psychology Departments, now known as the Council of Undergraduate Psychology Programs. Harper wrote Introductory Psychology (1958) and published and spoke often on teaching and curricular topics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)