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Dear TIPSters, A couple weeks ago when someone asked about sprucing up history of psychology couses, I quipped that there were "loads" of films on the history of psychology and then went on to other things. Naturally, a few people asked me to name some these films. In point of fact, a colleague of mine, Alex Rutherford, is the primary "show-er of films" in her history of psych class, not me. So I asked her to list a few for me. Her reply is below. The "Wade" she mentions in her message is Wade Pickren, Archivist for the APA. I hope this helps. Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Chris - Ok - here is a small list of films I have used or have heard about. Wade also directed me to an APA publication called "Videos in Psychology: A Resource Directory" published in 2000 (he thinks it may have been updated since - Gary VandenBos was/is the editor). Wade contributed the titles of history of psych.-related films. Many of them are interviews of famous psychologists. You may want to pass on this reference. I can fax you the titles from the index if you'd like - let me know. Here is a list of stuff I have used: "In Search of Ourselves" (1998) - a PBS Science Odyssey production that is largely historical and does a good job of covering significant developments in the history of psychoanalysis and American psychology, especially the impact of the World Wars. For a description see: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/thenandnow/humbeh.html Jonathan Miller's "Madness" series (made in the early 1990s I think) covers many aspects of the history of insanity, its treatments, asylums, and the history of schizophrenia. There are four videos in total - "Out of Sight", "The Talking Cure", "In Two Minds", and "Brainwaves". Goodness knows where one might get them - possible university libraries. Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Study (1998) Stanford Instructional Television Network. "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" - the first episode of the recent "Evolution" series on PBS is historical - see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/index.html "Giant Brains" from the series "The machine that changed the world" (1992 - WGBH production). Description reads: "This program tells the story of the birth of computers, such as the ENIAC, the most complicated electronic machine ever built, and of the men and women who assisted in that birth: Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Herman Goldstine, John Mauchly, Ada Lovelace and J. Presper Eckert." "Freud under Analysis" for NOVA series, 1987 (WGBH Boston). Description reads: "Examines Sigmund Freud's life and credits him with establishing the study of the mind as a science in its own right." "Sigmund Freud: Analysis of the Mind" originally aired as an A&E biography, 1996 (Greystone Productions, A&E Home Video) Feel free to pass this on to the Psyteach list. Cheers - Alex You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
