Marga Vicedo
Biographic Data
| ID | 159753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marga Vicedo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marga |
| FAMILY NAME | Vicedo |
| SIGNATURE | VICEDO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6533-1092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood
A prolific writer and social activist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) has been widely recognized as an influential American reformer and feminist thinker in the early decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars interpret her views in divergent ways. This paper focuses on Gilman's philosophy, as can be gathered from her non-fiction publications and reform proposals. It examines Gilman's work in the context of her reaction to theories…
Moving beyond the search for the first discoverer of autism
OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 17 January 2024Sec. Autism Volume 15 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1266486
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
Entanglements between language, science, and worldviews
This introduction offers a synoptic overview of some of Evelyn Fox Keller's influential works on the role and nature of metaphor in science, followed by a short précis of each of the contributed papers
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster "positive parenting practices" to improve children's chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard of good care. But attachment-based parentin…
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the main results of the study. It highlights some key factors that explain the success of attachment theory in the face of substantial criticism, and reflects on what the present historical analysis says about its value. Since attachment theorists have often used historical reconstruction to legitimize their science, a reinterpretation of that history must bear on the status of the theory. It is argued that over the course…
Against Evolutionary Determinism
During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in Europe and the United States showed the difficulties inherent in the original ethological goal of studying animal behavior by first identifying an animal's instincts. This chapter reviews some of their major objections. Daniel Lehrman criticized the explanatory value of the concept of instinct and the impossibility of isolating innate behavior with deprivation experiments. Comparative psychologists Frank…
Mother Love as the Cradle of the Emotional Self
This chapter discusses how war and postwar readjustment fostered concern about emotions, which increased scientific and social interest in the role of mothers in their children's emotional development. It examines how discourses that blamed mothers for loving children too much and loving them too little overlapped during many years, but toward the end of the 1940s there was stronger concern about the absence of mother love in an infant's early ye…
The Study of Instincts
This chapter analyzes Konrad Lorenz's views about instincts and imprinting in the context of his efforts to develop the new science of ethology with Niko Tinbergen. It first introduces Lorenz's and Tinbergen's project to explain the biological basis of animal and human behavior. It then examines more closely Lorenz's conception of instincts and imprinting. Next, it turns to Lorenz's role in discussions about maternal care and infants' needs. Afte…
Psychoanalysts against Biological Reductionism
Primate Love
This chapter examines Harry Harlow's work, its reception among contemporary scientists and the public, and its relevance to the ethological theory of attachment behavior. The analysis focuses on whether his experiments proved the instinctual nature of the mother-infant dyad. It shows that Harlow did not think his results supported Lorenz's ideas about imprinting and instincts or Bowlby's views about the infant's innate need for mother love. Harlo…
The Nature of Love
This chapter examines the development of Mary Ainsworth's views about attachment in the context of her relationship with John Bowlby. It shows her evolution from being Bowlby's defender to considering herself a coauthor of the ethological theory of attachment. Based on observational studies of mothers and children in Uganda and Baltimore, as well as observations of infants in an experimental procedure she called “the strange situation,” Ainsworth…
Reinforcing Each Other and a Normative View of Nature
Bowlby’s Ethological Theory of Attachment Behavior
The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
Introduction: The Secret Lives of Textbooks
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they have been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians have recently shown how they play a number of roles that can illuminate different aspects of the history of science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays in this Focus section aim to expand our vision of textbooks further by showing how they perform various hybrid functions in scien…
Playing the Game: Psychology Textbooks Speak Out about Love
Starting in 1958, Harry Harlow published numerous research papers analyzing the emotional and social development of rhesus monkeys. This essay examines the presentation of Harlow's work in introductory psychology textbooks from 1958 to 1975, focusing on whether the textbooks erased the process of research, presented results without hedging, and provided a uniform account of Harlow's work and results. It argues that many textbooks were not passive…
The social nature of the mother's tie to her child: John Bowlby's theory of attachment in post-war America
This paper examines the development of British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby's views and their scientific and social reception in the United States during the 1950s. In a 1951 report for the World Health Organization Bowlby contended that the mother is the child's psychic organizer, as observational studies of children worldwide showed that absence of mother love had disastrous consequences for children's emotional health. By the end…
The evolution of Harry Harlow: From the nature to the nurture of love
Harlow deserves a place in the early history of evolutionary psychiatry but not, as he is commonly presented, because of his belief in the instinctual nature of the mother-infant dyad. Harlow’s work on the significance of peer relationships led him to appreciate the evolutionary significance of separate affectional systems. Over time, Harlow distanced himself from the ideas of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as well as from Konrad Lorenz’s views a…
Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend
The Father of Ethology and the Foster Mother of Ducks: Konrad Lorenz as Expert on Motherhood
Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued that many psychopathologies were caused by a disruption in the mother-infant bond. Lorenz extended his work on imprinting to humans and argued that maternal care was also instinctual. The conjunction o…
What Is that Thing Called Mendelian Genetics
After the rediscovery of Mendel's work in 1900, a conflict arose in England between William Bateson, who defended Mendelian inheritance, on the one side, and, on the other, Karl Pearson and W.F.R. Weldon, who supported Galton's law of ancestral inheritance and the view that the main evolutionary force was natural selection acting on small continuous variations. This notorious confrontation is known as 'the Biometrician-Mendelian controversy'. Des…
Realism and simplicity in the castle-east debate on the stability of the hereditary units: Rhetorical devices versus substantive methodology
Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information . Dorothy Nelkin , Laurence Tancredi Brainstorming: The Science and Politics of Opiate Research . Solomon H. Snyder Gene Dreams: Wall …
The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster "positive parenting practices" to improve children's chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard of good care. But attachment-based parentin…
Introduction: The Secret Lives of Textbooks
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they have been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians have recently shown how they play a number of roles that can illuminate different aspects of the history of science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays in this Focus section aim to expand our vision of textbooks further by showing how they perform various hybrid functions in scien…
The Father of Ethology and the Foster Mother of Ducks: Konrad Lorenz as Expert on Motherhood
Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued that many psychopathologies were caused by a disruption in the mother-infant bond. Lorenz extended his work on imprinting to humans and argued that maternal care was also instinctual. The conjunction o…
The social nature of the mother's tie to her child: John Bowlby's theory of attachment in post-war America
This paper examines the development of British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby's views and their scientific and social reception in the United States during the 1950s. In a 1951 report for the World Health Organization Bowlby contended that the mother is the child's psychic organizer, as observational studies of children worldwide showed that absence of mother love had disastrous consequences for children's emotional health. By the end…
Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend
What Is that Thing Called Mendelian Genetics
After the rediscovery of Mendel's work in 1900, a conflict arose in England between William Bateson, who defended Mendelian inheritance, on the one side, and, on the other, Karl Pearson and W.F.R. Weldon, who supported Galton's law of ancestral inheritance and the view that the main evolutionary force was natural selection acting on small continuous variations. This notorious confrontation is known as 'the Biometrician-Mendelian controversy'. Des…
Playing the Game: Psychology Textbooks Speak Out about Love
Starting in 1958, Harry Harlow published numerous research papers analyzing the emotional and social development of rhesus monkeys. This essay examines the presentation of Harlow's work in introductory psychology textbooks from 1958 to 1975, focusing on whether the textbooks erased the process of research, presented results without hedging, and provided a uniform account of Harlow's work and results. It argues that many textbooks were not passive…
Realism and simplicity in the castle-east debate on the stability of the hereditary units: Rhetorical devices versus substantive methodology
Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information . Dorothy Nelkin , Laurence Tancredi Brainstorming: The Science and Politics of Opiate Research . Solomon H. Snyder Gene Dreams: Wall …
What Is that Thing Called Mendelian Genetics
After the rediscovery of Mendel's work in 1900, a conflict arose in England between William Bateson, who defended Mendelian inheritance, on the one side, and, on the other, Karl Pearson and W.F.R. Weldon, who supported Galton's law of ancestral inheritance and the view that the main evolutionary force was natural selection acting on small continuous variations. This notorious confrontation is known as 'the Biometrician-Mendelian controversy'. Des…
Mothers, machines, and morals: Harry Harlow's work on primate love from lab to legend
The Father of Ethology and the Foster Mother of Ducks: Konrad Lorenz as Expert on Motherhood
Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued that many psychopathologies were caused by a disruption in the mother-infant bond. Lorenz extended his work on imprinting to humans and argued that maternal care was also instinctual. The conjunction o…
The evolution of Harry Harlow: From the nature to the nurture of love
Harlow deserves a place in the early history of evolutionary psychiatry but not, as he is commonly presented, because of his belief in the instinctual nature of the mother-infant dyad. Harlow’s work on the significance of peer relationships led him to appreciate the evolutionary significance of separate affectional systems. Over time, Harlow distanced himself from the ideas of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as well as from Konrad Lorenz’s views a…
The social nature of the mother's tie to her child: John Bowlby's theory of attachment in post-war America
This paper examines the development of British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby's views and their scientific and social reception in the United States during the 1950s. In a 1951 report for the World Health Organization Bowlby contended that the mother is the child's psychic organizer, as observational studies of children worldwide showed that absence of mother love had disastrous consequences for children's emotional health. By the end…
Introduction: The Secret Lives of Textbooks
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they have been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians have recently shown how they play a number of roles that can illuminate different aspects of the history of science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays in this Focus section aim to expand our vision of textbooks further by showing how they perform various hybrid functions in scien…
Playing the Game: Psychology Textbooks Speak Out about Love
Starting in 1958, Harry Harlow published numerous research papers analyzing the emotional and social development of rhesus monkeys. This essay examines the presentation of Harlow's work in introductory psychology textbooks from 1958 to 1975, focusing on whether the textbooks erased the process of research, presented results without hedging, and provided a uniform account of Harlow's work and results. It argues that many textbooks were not passive…
Conclusion
This chapter summarizes the main results of the study. It highlights some key factors that explain the success of attachment theory in the face of substantial criticism, and reflects on what the present historical analysis says about its value. Since attachment theorists have often used historical reconstruction to legitimize their science, a reinterpretation of that history must bear on the status of the theory. It is argued that over the course…
Against Evolutionary Determinism
During the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in Europe and the United States showed the difficulties inherent in the original ethological goal of studying animal behavior by first identifying an animal's instincts. This chapter reviews some of their major objections. Daniel Lehrman criticized the explanatory value of the concept of instinct and the impossibility of isolating innate behavior with deprivation experiments. Comparative psychologists Frank…
Mother Love as the Cradle of the Emotional Self
This chapter discusses how war and postwar readjustment fostered concern about emotions, which increased scientific and social interest in the role of mothers in their children's emotional development. It examines how discourses that blamed mothers for loving children too much and loving them too little overlapped during many years, but toward the end of the 1940s there was stronger concern about the absence of mother love in an infant's early ye…
The Study of Instincts
This chapter analyzes Konrad Lorenz's views about instincts and imprinting in the context of his efforts to develop the new science of ethology with Niko Tinbergen. It first introduces Lorenz's and Tinbergen's project to explain the biological basis of animal and human behavior. It then examines more closely Lorenz's conception of instincts and imprinting. Next, it turns to Lorenz's role in discussions about maternal care and infants' needs. Afte…
Psychoanalysts against Biological Reductionism
Primate Love
This chapter examines Harry Harlow's work, its reception among contemporary scientists and the public, and its relevance to the ethological theory of attachment behavior. The analysis focuses on whether his experiments proved the instinctual nature of the mother-infant dyad. It shows that Harlow did not think his results supported Lorenz's ideas about imprinting and instincts or Bowlby's views about the infant's innate need for mother love. Harlo…
The Nature of Love
This chapter examines the development of Mary Ainsworth's views about attachment in the context of her relationship with John Bowlby. It shows her evolution from being Bowlby's defender to considering herself a coauthor of the ethological theory of attachment. Based on observational studies of mothers and children in Uganda and Baltimore, as well as observations of infants in an experimental procedure she called “the strange situation,” Ainsworth…
Reinforcing Each Other and a Normative View of Nature
Bowlby’s Ethological Theory of Attachment Behavior
The Nature and Nurture of Love: From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries
This article explores ethical issues raised by parenting interventions implemented in communities in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs) with rural, subsistence lifestyles. Many of these interventions foster "positive parenting practices" to improve children's chances of fulfilling their developmental potential. The practices are derived from attachment theory and presented as the universal standard of good care. But attachment-based parentin…
Entanglements between language, science, and worldviews
This introduction offers a synoptic overview of some of Evelyn Fox Keller's influential works on the role and nature of metaphor in science, followed by a short précis of each of the contributed papers
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy
Moving beyond the search for the first discoverer of autism
OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 17 January 2024Sec. Autism Volume 15 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1266486
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Pragmatist Framework for Constructing a New Humanhood
A prolific writer and social activist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) has been widely recognized as an influential American reformer and feminist thinker in the early decades of the twentieth century. However, scholars interpret her views in divergent ways. This paper focuses on Gilman's philosophy, as can be gathered from her non-fiction publications and reform proposals. It examines Gilman's work in the context of her reaction to theories…
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