Katja Guenther
Biographic Data
| ID | 1133647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Guenther |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Guenther |
| SIGNATURE | GUENTHER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5565-9206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Madness and Enterprise
Camille Robcis. Disalienation
Journal Article Camille Robcis. Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Get access Camille Robcis. Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. x, 220. Paper $35.00. Katja Guenther Katja Guenther Princeton University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
The Mirror and the Mind
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects-humans, infants, animals, and robots-in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition…
Mirror and the Mind
Um, mm-h, yeah”
Listening seems to be a simple and natural act. We sit back, look at the speaker, and take in what she says. And yet, we also know that good listening is a skill, an art, that if done correctly, can be transformative. This article looks into the history of listening as a therapeutic practice placing emphasis on the ways it has been shaped by media technologies. Sketching the development of the concept and practice of "empathic," "reflective," or …
Intelligent love
Book Forum
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
Rebel Genius
Reviewed by: Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science by Tara Abraham Katja Guenther Tara Abraham. Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. 320 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0262035095). It may seem strange that a book on cybernetics should be reviewed in a journal on the history of medicine. After all, cybernetics is most often associated with technology and the…
Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me
This article explores the work of psychologist Gordon Gallup, Jr., during the 1960s and 1970s on mirror self-recognition in animals. It shows how Gallup tried to integrate the mental "self-concept" into an otherwise strictly behaviorist paradigm. By making an argument from material culture, the article demonstrates how Gallup's adoption of a self-concept is best understood as a product of his sustained analysis of the workings of the mirror as a …
Exercises in Therapy—Neurological Gymnastics between Kurort and Hospital Medicine, 1880–1945
This article focuses on the convergence of sports and medicine in the practice of neurological gymnastics (Übungstherapie) in the German-speaking world at the turn of the twentieth century. It shows how Übungstherapie first found receptive ground within the peripheral medical space of the spa town ( Kurort ). Übungstherapie appealed to Kurort patients because, as a form of neurological gymnastics, it drew on the cultural capital of the broader Ge…
The Disappearing Lesion
Freud's criticism of the localization project as carried out by Theodor Meynert and Carl Wernicke has usually been seen as marking his break with contemporaneous brain science. In this article, however, I show that Freud criticized localization not by turning his back on brain science, but rather by radicalizing some of its principles. In particular, he argued that the physiological pretensions of the localization project remained at odds with it…
Mastering the Unmasterable
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Rezension
A Movement Without Memory
The creation and maintenance of strategically useful collective memories can be important achievements for social movements, yet not all movements will attempt or succeed in these endeavors. This article examines how the shared history of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) gender egalitarianism project was forgotten in the unified Germany. Feminist activists faced many conditions that appeared conducive to propagating a collective memory of t…
The race relations “Problematic” in American sociology
A Movement Without Memory
The creation and maintenance of strategically useful collective memories can be important achievements for social movements, yet not all movements will attempt or succeed in these endeavors. This article examines how the shared history of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) gender egalitarianism project was forgotten in the unified Germany. Feminist activists faced many conditions that appeared conducive to propagating a collective memory of t…
Um, mm-h, yeah”
Listening seems to be a simple and natural act. We sit back, look at the speaker, and take in what she says. And yet, we also know that good listening is a skill, an art, that if done correctly, can be transformative. This article looks into the history of listening as a therapeutic practice placing emphasis on the ways it has been shaped by media technologies. Sketching the development of the concept and practice of "empathic," "reflective," or …
The race relations “Problematic” in American sociology
Intelligent love
Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me
This article explores the work of psychologist Gordon Gallup, Jr., during the 1960s and 1970s on mirror self-recognition in animals. It shows how Gallup tried to integrate the mental "self-concept" into an otherwise strictly behaviorist paradigm. By making an argument from material culture, the article demonstrates how Gallup's adoption of a self-concept is best understood as a product of his sustained analysis of the workings of the mirror as a …
The Disappearing Lesion
Freud's criticism of the localization project as carried out by Theodor Meynert and Carl Wernicke has usually been seen as marking his break with contemporaneous brain science. In this article, however, I show that Freud criticized localization not by turning his back on brain science, but rather by radicalizing some of its principles. In particular, he argued that the physiological pretensions of the localization project remained at odds with it…
The race relations “Problematic” in American sociology
A Movement Without Memory
The creation and maintenance of strategically useful collective memories can be important achievements for social movements, yet not all movements will attempt or succeed in these endeavors. This article examines how the shared history of the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) gender egalitarianism project was forgotten in the unified Germany. Feminist activists faced many conditions that appeared conducive to propagating a collective memory of t…
The Disappearing Lesion
Freud's criticism of the localization project as carried out by Theodor Meynert and Carl Wernicke has usually been seen as marking his break with contemporaneous brain science. In this article, however, I show that Freud criticized localization not by turning his back on brain science, but rather by radicalizing some of its principles. In particular, he argued that the physiological pretensions of the localization project remained at odds with it…
Mastering the Unmasterable
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rezension
Exercises in Therapy—Neurological Gymnastics between Kurort and Hospital Medicine, 1880–1945
This article focuses on the convergence of sports and medicine in the practice of neurological gymnastics (Übungstherapie) in the German-speaking world at the turn of the twentieth century. It shows how Übungstherapie first found receptive ground within the peripheral medical space of the spa town ( Kurort ). Übungstherapie appealed to Kurort patients because, as a form of neurological gymnastics, it drew on the cultural capital of the broader Ge…
Monkeys, Mirrors, and Me
This article explores the work of psychologist Gordon Gallup, Jr., during the 1960s and 1970s on mirror self-recognition in animals. It shows how Gallup tried to integrate the mental "self-concept" into an otherwise strictly behaviorist paradigm. By making an argument from material culture, the article demonstrates how Gallup's adoption of a self-concept is best understood as a product of his sustained analysis of the workings of the mirror as a …
Rebel Genius
Reviewed by: Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science by Tara Abraham Katja Guenther Tara Abraham. Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. 320 pp. Ill. $40.00 (978-0262035095). It may seem strange that a book on cybernetics should be reviewed in a journal on the history of medicine. After all, cybernetics is most often associated with technology and the…
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
Book Forum
Intelligent love
The Mirror and the Mind
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects-humans, infants, animals, and robots-in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition…
Mirror and the Mind
Um, mm-h, yeah”
Listening seems to be a simple and natural act. We sit back, look at the speaker, and take in what she says. And yet, we also know that good listening is a skill, an art, that if done correctly, can be transformative. This article looks into the history of listening as a therapeutic practice placing emphasis on the ways it has been shaped by media technologies. Sketching the development of the concept and practice of "empathic," "reflective," or …
Camille Robcis. Disalienation
Journal Article Camille Robcis. Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Get access Camille Robcis. Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. x, 220. Paper $35.00. Katja Guenther Katja Guenther Princeton University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
Madness and Enterprise
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