L Gerber
Biographic Data
| ID | 13089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Gerber |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerber |
| SIGNATURE | GERBER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4730-1455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Experimental bioclimatology and prospects of agricultural modernization at the CNRS phytotron, France, 1953–1988
Built in Gif-sur-Yvette in the 1950s, the phytotron of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique provided plant physiologists with a set of enclosed growth rooms in which several climatic constituents of the environment could be simultaneously and separately controlled. This article examines the polyvalence of the French phytotron to explore the economic and political entanglements of experimental reasoning in mid-twentieth-century plant p…
Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization
International audience
From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s–1980s
This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this behavioral intervention into interindividual relations from its emergence as a treatment for anxiety in postwar United States to its importation into the French field of continuing professional training at the tu…
Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behavior therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s-1990s
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
Comment la dépression vint aux singes: Harry F. Harlow et le défi de la psychopathologie expérimentale
Peut-on substituer l'animal à l'humain pour étudier le trouble mental ? À la fin des années 1960, le psychologue Harry F. Harlow de l'université du Wisconsin a formé le projet de modéliser, chez le singe, la dépression comme un trouble motivé par des chocs externes, se manifestant par une perturbation de la vie sociale. En retraçant les origines, les voies techniques et la marche de ce projet de psychopathologie expérimentale au cours des années …
The art of growing old: Environmental manipulation, physiological rhythms, and the advent of Microcebus murinus as a primate model of aging
Learning to stand tall: Idiopathic scoliosis, behavioral electronics, and technologically-assisted patient participation in treatment, c. 1969-1992
Drawing on the archives of American learning psychologist Neal E. Miller, this article investigates the role of instrumentation in the expansion and diversification of the behavior therapy domain from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Through the case of Miller's research on the use of biofeedback to treat idiopathic scoliosis, it argues that the post-World War II adoption of electronic technology by behavioral psychologists contributed to exten…
Marketing Masked Depression: Physicians, Pharmaceutical Firms, and the Redefinition of Mood Disorders in the 1960s and 1970s
This article investigates the redefinition of depression that took place in the early 1970s. Well before the introduction of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, this rather rare and severe psychiatric disorder hitherto treated in asylums was transformed into a widespread mild mood disorder to be handled by general practitioners. Basing itself on the archives of the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy, the article inv…
The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Mobilization Works
The question of how people become activists may, on the surface, seem relatively straightforward. People who believe in cause X or have concerns about issue Y make contact with a social movement and, if circumstances allow, an activist is born. The direction of belief and engagement seems clear: one holds certain beliefs and becomes politically involved as a result. In his vibrant new book, The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mo…
Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behavior therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s-1990s
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s–1980s
This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this behavioral intervention into interindividual relations from its emergence as a treatment for anxiety in postwar United States to its importation into the French field of continuing professional training at the tu…
The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Mobilization Works
The question of how people become activists may, on the surface, seem relatively straightforward. People who believe in cause X or have concerns about issue Y make contact with a social movement and, if circumstances allow, an activist is born. The direction of belief and engagement seems clear: one holds certain beliefs and becomes politically involved as a result. In his vibrant new book, The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mo…
Marketing Masked Depression: Physicians, Pharmaceutical Firms, and the Redefinition of Mood Disorders in the 1960s and 1970s
This article investigates the redefinition of depression that took place in the early 1970s. Well before the introduction of the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, this rather rare and severe psychiatric disorder hitherto treated in asylums was transformed into a widespread mild mood disorder to be handled by general practitioners. Basing itself on the archives of the Swiss firm Ciba-Geigy, the article inv…
The art of growing old: Environmental manipulation, physiological rhythms, and the advent of Microcebus murinus as a primate model of aging
Learning to stand tall: Idiopathic scoliosis, behavioral electronics, and technologically-assisted patient participation in treatment, c. 1969-1992
Drawing on the archives of American learning psychologist Neal E. Miller, this article investigates the role of instrumentation in the expansion and diversification of the behavior therapy domain from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Through the case of Miller's research on the use of biofeedback to treat idiopathic scoliosis, it argues that the post-World War II adoption of electronic technology by behavioral psychologists contributed to exten…
Putting psychotherapy in its place: The regionalization of behavior therapy in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, 1960s-1990s
This article traces the history of the behavior therapy movement in French-speaking Europe between the 1960s and the 1990s, focusing on its geographically located development, whether on a national, sub- or supra-national scale. By examining the trajectories of the three main behavioral therapy associations in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, we show that it is not possible to subsume them under a common intellectual history. Despite the importa…
Comment la dépression vint aux singes: Harry F. Harlow et le défi de la psychopathologie expérimentale
Peut-on substituer l'animal à l'humain pour étudier le trouble mental ? À la fin des années 1960, le psychologue Harry F. Harlow de l'université du Wisconsin a formé le projet de modéliser, chez le singe, la dépression comme un trouble motivé par des chocs externes, se manifestant par une perturbation de la vie sociale. En retraçant les origines, les voies techniques et la marche de ce projet de psychopathologie expérimentale au cours des années …
Historicizing “therapeutic culture”—Towards a material and polycentric history of psychologization
International audience
From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s–1980s
This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this behavioral intervention into interindividual relations from its emergence as a treatment for anxiety in postwar United States to its importation into the French field of continuing professional training at the tu…
Experimental bioclimatology and prospects of agricultural modernization at the CNRS phytotron, France, 1953–1988
Built in Gif-sur-Yvette in the 1950s, the phytotron of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique provided plant physiologists with a set of enclosed growth rooms in which several climatic constituents of the environment could be simultaneously and separately controlled. This article examines the polyvalence of the French phytotron to explore the economic and political entanglements of experimental reasoning in mid-twentieth-century plant p…
Political science (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychotherapist (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)