Roderick D Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 209247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roderick D Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roderick D |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9139-9656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The social psychologist as planner: The pioneering work of Oscar Oeser in urban and rural communities in mid-twentieth century Australia
Oscar Oeser was a polymath import to the Antipodes, primarily known as a social psychologist and as the founding Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. But he was also a very effective network builder, and an important conduit for overseas ideas – not least with respect to urban and rural planning. With interest in urban planning surging in the immediate post-Second World War period, Oeser undertook a joint project with the Head …
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin
King's College London's enquiry into Hans J Eysenck's 'Unsafe' publications must be properly completed
This journal recently drew attention to an extensive body of highly questionable research published by Hans J. Eysenck in collaboration with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. The subsequent enquiry by King's College London concluded that 26 publications were unsafe and warranted retraction. However, the enquiry reviewed only a subset of the 61 questionable publications initially submitted to them, only those Eysenck co-authored with Grossarth-Maticek. Th…
Decoding the Darwinian mother lode: Thierry Hoquet: Revisiting the Origin of Species: The other Darwins. Milton Park, Oxon/NY: Routledge, 2018, 252pp, US$242 HB
Darwin's Delay: A Reassessment of the Evidence
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
Epilogue: The Redux of Postmodernity
The essays in this topical issue illustrate the changing cultural form and function of the biopsyche disciplines – disciplines that are both sciences and technologies of selfhood. To varying degrees, each essay actively engages Paul Forman's thesis on modern and postmodern cultural valuations of science and technology. Forman invites those who read his work to view the cultural space framing science and technology in new ways (Forman 2007; idem 2…
Research report: Doing a biography of Hans J. Eysenck
Legislative warriors: American psychiatrists, psychologists, and competing claims over psychotherapy in the 1950s
American psychiatrists and psychologists have long been close colleagues and fierce rivals. There is no better illustration of this polarized relationship than the chronic tug-of-war over psychotherapy. Both groups laid claim to psychotherapy-whatever it was and however it was practiced. Psychiatrists attempted to monopolize psychotherapy despite its ambiguous status as an essential component of the healing arts. After the war, psychologists pres…
"On not "giving psychology away: The Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory and public controversy over testing in the 1960s
Psychological tests, especially the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, became the center of public controversy and Congressional scrutiny during the 1960s. This unwanted attention actually helped American psychologists more than they imagined. Assisted by those on Capital Hill, psychologists were able to defend their science in a manner that avoided imposed forms of public accountability. Social questions were reformulated as technical …
Ink Blots or Profile Plots: The Rorschach versus the MMPI as the Right Tool for a Science-Based Profession
When a strange new test of perceptual style called the Rorschach reached the New World in the 1920s, it became almost immediately popular. Developed as a psychoana lytic "X ray" of the psyche, it succeeded because American psychologists wanted and needed it to do so, and to do so as that kind of test. Over a decade later, the MMPI was constructed as a more orthodox personality inventory geared to traditional psychiatric categories While this medi…
The development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was constructed at the University of Minnesota before and during World War II. In its developmental phase, the MMPI was conceptualized as an efficient way of detecting psychiatric disturbance. The test's construction was made possible by atypical cooperation between psychologists and psychiatrists, within the context of a crisis in the U.S. public mental health care system. The MMPI was desig…
Legislative warriors: American psychiatrists, psychologists, and competing claims over psychotherapy in the 1950s
American psychiatrists and psychologists have long been close colleagues and fierce rivals. There is no better illustration of this polarized relationship than the chronic tug-of-war over psychotherapy. Both groups laid claim to psychotherapy-whatever it was and however it was practiced. Psychiatrists attempted to monopolize psychotherapy despite its ambiguous status as an essential component of the healing arts. After the war, psychologists pres…
Ink Blots or Profile Plots: The Rorschach versus the MMPI as the Right Tool for a Science-Based Profession
When a strange new test of perceptual style called the Rorschach reached the New World in the 1920s, it became almost immediately popular. Developed as a psychoana lytic "X ray" of the psyche, it succeeded because American psychologists wanted and needed it to do so, and to do so as that kind of test. Over a decade later, the MMPI was constructed as a more orthodox personality inventory geared to traditional psychiatric categories While this medi…
Darwin's Delay: A Reassessment of the Evidence
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
"On not "giving psychology away: The Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory and public controversy over testing in the 1960s
Psychological tests, especially the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, became the center of public controversy and Congressional scrutiny during the 1960s. This unwanted attention actually helped American psychologists more than they imagined. Assisted by those on Capital Hill, psychologists were able to defend their science in a manner that avoided imposed forms of public accountability. Social questions were reformulated as technical …
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin
King's College London's enquiry into Hans J Eysenck's 'Unsafe' publications must be properly completed
This journal recently drew attention to an extensive body of highly questionable research published by Hans J. Eysenck in collaboration with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. The subsequent enquiry by King's College London concluded that 26 publications were unsafe and warranted retraction. However, the enquiry reviewed only a subset of the 61 questionable publications initially submitted to them, only those Eysenck co-authored with Grossarth-Maticek. Th…
Research report: Doing a biography of Hans J. Eysenck
The development of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was constructed at the University of Minnesota before and during World War II. In its developmental phase, the MMPI was conceptualized as an efficient way of detecting psychiatric disturbance. The test's construction was made possible by atypical cooperation between psychologists and psychiatrists, within the context of a crisis in the U.S. public mental health care system. The MMPI was desig…
Ink Blots or Profile Plots: The Rorschach versus the MMPI as the Right Tool for a Science-Based Profession
When a strange new test of perceptual style called the Rorschach reached the New World in the 1920s, it became almost immediately popular. Developed as a psychoana lytic "X ray" of the psyche, it succeeded because American psychologists wanted and needed it to do so, and to do so as that kind of test. Over a decade later, the MMPI was constructed as a more orthodox personality inventory geared to traditional psychiatric categories While this medi…
"On not "giving psychology away: The Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory and public controversy over testing in the 1960s
Psychological tests, especially the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, became the center of public controversy and Congressional scrutiny during the 1960s. This unwanted attention actually helped American psychologists more than they imagined. Assisted by those on Capital Hill, psychologists were able to defend their science in a manner that avoided imposed forms of public accountability. Social questions were reformulated as technical …
Legislative warriors: American psychiatrists, psychologists, and competing claims over psychotherapy in the 1950s
American psychiatrists and psychologists have long been close colleagues and fierce rivals. There is no better illustration of this polarized relationship than the chronic tug-of-war over psychotherapy. Both groups laid claim to psychotherapy-whatever it was and however it was practiced. Psychiatrists attempted to monopolize psychotherapy despite its ambiguous status as an essential component of the healing arts. After the war, psychologists pres…
Research report: Doing a biography of Hans J. Eysenck
Epilogue: The Redux of Postmodernity
The essays in this topical issue illustrate the changing cultural form and function of the biopsyche disciplines – disciplines that are both sciences and technologies of selfhood. To varying degrees, each essay actively engages Paul Forman's thesis on modern and postmodern cultural valuations of science and technology. Forman invites those who read his work to view the cultural space framing science and technology in new ways (Forman 2007; idem 2…
Darwin's Delay: A Reassessment of the Evidence
The suggestion that Darwin delayed publishing his species theory has\nlong occupied a central part of his biographical storyline. The notion of a fretful delay reached a melodramatic apogee in Adrian Desmond and James Moore’s best-selling 1991 biography. Janet Browne’s acclaimed work downplayed the pathos but depicted a somewhat hesitant Darwin. In 2007 John van Wyhe upended this tableau, arguing that there was no evidence to support a secretive,…
Decoding the Darwinian mother lode: Thierry Hoquet: Revisiting the Origin of Species: The other Darwins. Milton Park, Oxon/NY: Routledge, 2018, 252pp, US$242 HB
King's College London's enquiry into Hans J Eysenck's 'Unsafe' publications must be properly completed
This journal recently drew attention to an extensive body of highly questionable research published by Hans J. Eysenck in collaboration with Ronald Grossarth-Maticek. The subsequent enquiry by King's College London concluded that 26 publications were unsafe and warranted retraction. However, the enquiry reviewed only a subset of the 61 questionable publications initially submitted to them, only those Eysenck co-authored with Grossarth-Maticek. Th…
Syndrome du jour: The historiography and moral implications of Diagnosing Darwin
The social psychologist as planner: The pioneering work of Oscar Oeser in urban and rural communities in mid-twentieth century Australia
Oscar Oeser was a polymath import to the Antipodes, primarily known as a social psychologist and as the founding Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. But he was also a very effective network builder, and an important conduit for overseas ideas – not least with respect to urban and rural planning. With interest in urban planning surging in the immediate post-Second World War period, Oeser undertook a joint project with the Head …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)