Graham Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Staffordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Linnaeus to the Leakeys
Theories of human evolution and notions of ‘human nature’ are always interwoven, and the latter can often set limits on the kind of account the world is prepared to accept. There is clearly much interesting work to be done in the history of science field concerning the nature of theory-generation and evaluation in human evolution research. Though the evolutionary perspective was well established, acceptance of natural selection as its fundamental…
Human Evolution
Originally published in 1987, Human Evolution looks at theories of the evolution of human behaviour (contemporary at the time of publication). The book reviews competing theories of psychological and social evolution and provides a detailed historical introduction to the subject. A key theoretical concern which emerges in the book includes the psychological significance of the human evolution issue itself. The period of human evolution covered ra…
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Goodwill in the valley of the shadow
The author hypothesizes that the British psychological climate following World War II, from 1945 to approximately 1960, created the conditions for an unusually frank, honest, and collaborative debate on matters related to religion and spirituality generally as well as broader social and political issues. The author first sketches the nature of this climate, before looking more specifically at the interrelationships among religion, psychotherapy a…
Jung's social psychological meanings
The latter decades of the 20th century saw C.G. Jung doubly marginalized, both by Psychology's academic establishment, for whom he was beyond the scientific pale, and by critical psychologists for whom he was, to simplify, beyond the ideological one. In this paper, I will suggest that there are two respects in which Social Psychology should reconsider his position. Firstly his own, albeit largely covert, Social Psychology, has affinities with cri…
Psychology
"Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception."--Publisher's website
Design Errors and Cross Purposes
The ‘Creationism’ controversy has become a largely ritualised exchange between the two camps, both of which implicitly accept that the issue is one of empirical facts. This paper argues that this is a fundamentally mistaken assumption and raises a number of other arguments rarely raised by anti-Creationists which are actually more subversive of their opponents' position. These pertain to the concept of ‘complexity’, the nature of the ‘puzzle’ whi…
Can Psychological research on 'race' be socially responsible
It is argued that Psychological research on 'race' and 'ethnicity' issues presents a number of ethical problems. These relate to the sociopolitical impact of such research, particularly when it purports to find differences of an 'innate' character; to the use of naive subjects, particularly children, in research which is aimed at demonstrating their 'inferiority'; and, within the academic community itself, to the working relationships between res…
Putting science in its place
The British Journal of Psychology centenary
The preliminary findings are reported of a review of the contents of the British Journal of Psychology 1904-2003 undertaken to mark the journal's centenary. This identifies (a) the top 11 categories of paper published and their patterns of distribution, (b) an apparent change in the nature of papers published after 1983, (c) the overall pattern of category-introduction, showing a dramatic change in 1965 and (d) a provisional typology of the princ…
Noah Porter's problem and the origins of American psychology
The twin problems facing nineteenth-century American "mental and moral philosophy" of the nature of psychological language and the constraints that religious beliefs placed on possibilities of innovation in a "scientific Psychology" are both highly visible in the work of Noah Porter, who was unable to resolve them. They are also more covertly identifiable in the works of James McCosh and others in this school. It is suggested that the transition …
The Psychology of Psychology
Rhetorical calls for disciplinary unity and vision currently lack any grounding in historically informed analysis of Psychology's character and functions, while the historians of Psychology providing the material for such an analysis continue to remain marginalized. A framework for considering the issue is outlined in terms of a circuit reflexively linking the discipline ('Psychology') and its subject matter ('psychology'). This focuses on the ps…
Knowledge and Power
Psychology and the Churches in Britain 1919-39
The encounter between the Christian Churches and Psychology has, for all its evident cultural importance, received little attention from disciplinary historians. During the period between the two world wars in Britain this encounter was particularly visible and, as it turned out, for the most part relatively amicable. Given their ostensive rivalry this is, on the face of it, somewhat surprising. Closer examination, however, reveals a substantial …
Varieties of historical imagination
Britain on the Couch
The ArgumentDespite the enormous historical attention psychoanalysis has attracted, its popularization in Britain (as opposed to the United States) in the wake of the Great War has been largely overlooked. The present paper explores the sources and fate of the sudden "craze" for psychoanalysis after 1918, examining the content of the books through which the doctrine became widely known, along with the roles played by religious interests and the p…
The history of psychology in Britain and the founding of “the centre for the history of psychology”1This is a slightly revised version of an informal paper presented at the meetings of the European So…
The history of psychology in Britain and the founding of ?the centre for the history of psychology
Putting psychology in its place
Putting psychology in its place
Psychology is a relatively recent and rapidly developing discipline. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place over the last decade. This text gives historical perspective to key issues in contemporary psychology such as psychology and women, and psychology and race, as well as more traditional topics like behaviourism and Gestalt psychology. It is aimed specially at undergraduate students but will also appeal to postgraduates and aca…
Reconceptualizing the history of race psychology
Thomas Russell Garth was the single most prolific researcher on race differences during the inter-war period. He is, however, virtually never mentioned in accounts of psychology's past treatment of 'race' issues (nor is he the only figure of whom this is true). In this paper his career and views are reviewed and the reasons for his neglect by historians are examined. It is argued that Garth's case raises some major questions regarding the receive…
Historical dimensions of psychological discourse
Inventing Ourselves
To know our fellow men to do them good
The absence of psychology in the eighteenth century
Of What is History of Psychology a History
The British Psychological Society having established a 'Philosophy and History' section, a fresh look at the nature of the History of Psychology is called for. In this paper, I would like to make a contribution to this by raising some conundrums which have yet to be adequately addressed. First, though, what has happened in the History of Psychology so far? Psychologists have been writing histories of their discipline since the turn of the century…
To know our fellow men to do them good
Psychology and the Churches in Britain 1919-39
The encounter between the Christian Churches and Psychology has, for all its evident cultural importance, received little attention from disciplinary historians. During the period between the two world wars in Britain this encounter was particularly visible and, as it turned out, for the most part relatively amicable. Given their ostensive rivalry this is, on the face of it, somewhat surprising. Closer examination, however, reveals a substantial …
Britain on the Couch
The ArgumentDespite the enormous historical attention psychoanalysis has attracted, its popularization in Britain (as opposed to the United States) in the wake of the Great War has been largely overlooked. The present paper explores the sources and fate of the sudden "craze" for psychoanalysis after 1918, examining the content of the books through which the doctrine became widely known, along with the roles played by religious interests and the p…
The absence of psychology in the eighteenth century
Jung's social psychological meanings
The latter decades of the 20th century saw C.G. Jung doubly marginalized, both by Psychology's academic establishment, for whom he was beyond the scientific pale, and by critical psychologists for whom he was, to simplify, beyond the ideological one. In this paper, I will suggest that there are two respects in which Social Psychology should reconsider his position. Firstly his own, albeit largely covert, Social Psychology, has affinities with cri…
Human Behavioural Evolution
Goodwill in the valley of the shadow
The author hypothesizes that the British psychological climate following World War II, from 1945 to approximately 1960, created the conditions for an unusually frank, honest, and collaborative debate on matters related to religion and spirituality generally as well as broader social and political issues. The author first sketches the nature of this climate, before looking more specifically at the interrelationships among religion, psychotherapy a…
The British Journal of Psychology centenary
The preliminary findings are reported of a review of the contents of the British Journal of Psychology 1904-2003 undertaken to mark the journal's centenary. This identifies (a) the top 11 categories of paper published and their patterns of distribution, (b) an apparent change in the nature of papers published after 1983, (c) the overall pattern of category-introduction, showing a dramatic change in 1965 and (d) a provisional typology of the princ…
Noah Porter's problem and the origins of American psychology
The twin problems facing nineteenth-century American "mental and moral philosophy" of the nature of psychological language and the constraints that religious beliefs placed on possibilities of innovation in a "scientific Psychology" are both highly visible in the work of Noah Porter, who was unable to resolve them. They are also more covertly identifiable in the works of James McCosh and others in this school. It is suggested that the transition …
Freed hands or enslaved feet? A note on the behavioural implications of ground-dwelling bipedalism
Freed hands or enslaved feet? A note on the behavioural implications of ground-dwelling bipedalism
Of What is History of Psychology a History
The British Psychological Society having established a 'Philosophy and History' section, a fresh look at the nature of the History of Psychology is called for. In this paper, I would like to make a contribution to this by raising some conundrums which have yet to be adequately addressed. First, though, what has happened in the History of Psychology so far? Psychologists have been writing histories of their discipline since the turn of the century…
Human Behavioural Evolution
James and Freud
The absence of psychology in the eighteenth century
To know our fellow men to do them good
Putting psychology in its place
Putting psychology in its place
Psychology is a relatively recent and rapidly developing discipline. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place over the last decade. This text gives historical perspective to key issues in contemporary psychology such as psychology and women, and psychology and race, as well as more traditional topics like behaviourism and Gestalt psychology. It is aimed specially at undergraduate students but will also appeal to postgraduates and aca…
Reconceptualizing the history of race psychology
Thomas Russell Garth was the single most prolific researcher on race differences during the inter-war period. He is, however, virtually never mentioned in accounts of psychology's past treatment of 'race' issues (nor is he the only figure of whom this is true). In this paper his career and views are reviewed and the reasons for his neglect by historians are examined. It is argued that Garth's case raises some major questions regarding the receive…
Historical dimensions of psychological discourse
Inventing Ourselves
The history of psychology in Britain and the founding of “the centre for the history of psychology”1This is a slightly revised version of an informal paper presented at the meetings of the European So…
The history of psychology in Britain and the founding of ?the centre for the history of psychology
Psychology and the Churches in Britain 1919-39
The encounter between the Christian Churches and Psychology has, for all its evident cultural importance, received little attention from disciplinary historians. During the period between the two world wars in Britain this encounter was particularly visible and, as it turned out, for the most part relatively amicable. Given their ostensive rivalry this is, on the face of it, somewhat surprising. Closer examination, however, reveals a substantial …
Varieties of historical imagination
Britain on the Couch
The ArgumentDespite the enormous historical attention psychoanalysis has attracted, its popularization in Britain (as opposed to the United States) in the wake of the Great War has been largely overlooked. The present paper explores the sources and fate of the sudden "craze" for psychoanalysis after 1918, examining the content of the books through which the doctrine became widely known, along with the roles played by religious interests and the p…
Knowledge and Power
The Psychology of Psychology
Rhetorical calls for disciplinary unity and vision currently lack any grounding in historically informed analysis of Psychology's character and functions, while the historians of Psychology providing the material for such an analysis continue to remain marginalized. A framework for considering the issue is outlined in terms of a circuit reflexively linking the discipline ('Psychology') and its subject matter ('psychology'). This focuses on the ps…
The British Journal of Psychology centenary
The preliminary findings are reported of a review of the contents of the British Journal of Psychology 1904-2003 undertaken to mark the journal's centenary. This identifies (a) the top 11 categories of paper published and their patterns of distribution, (b) an apparent change in the nature of papers published after 1983, (c) the overall pattern of category-introduction, showing a dramatic change in 1965 and (d) a provisional typology of the princ…
Noah Porter's problem and the origins of American psychology
The twin problems facing nineteenth-century American "mental and moral philosophy" of the nature of psychological language and the constraints that religious beliefs placed on possibilities of innovation in a "scientific Psychology" are both highly visible in the work of Noah Porter, who was unable to resolve them. They are also more covertly identifiable in the works of James McCosh and others in this school. It is suggested that the transition …
Can Psychological research on 'race' be socially responsible
It is argued that Psychological research on 'race' and 'ethnicity' issues presents a number of ethical problems. These relate to the sociopolitical impact of such research, particularly when it purports to find differences of an 'innate' character; to the use of naive subjects, particularly children, in research which is aimed at demonstrating their 'inferiority'; and, within the academic community itself, to the working relationships between res…
Putting science in its place
Design Errors and Cross Purposes
The ‘Creationism’ controversy has become a largely ritualised exchange between the two camps, both of which implicitly accept that the issue is one of empirical facts. This paper argues that this is a fundamentally mistaken assumption and raises a number of other arguments rarely raised by anti-Creationists which are actually more subversive of their opponents' position. These pertain to the concept of ‘complexity’, the nature of the ‘puzzle’ whi…
Jung's social psychological meanings
The latter decades of the 20th century saw C.G. Jung doubly marginalized, both by Psychology's academic establishment, for whom he was beyond the scientific pale, and by critical psychologists for whom he was, to simplify, beyond the ideological one. In this paper, I will suggest that there are two respects in which Social Psychology should reconsider his position. Firstly his own, albeit largely covert, Social Psychology, has affinities with cri…
Psychology
"Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception."--Publisher's website
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (17 works) · Psychoanalysis (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · History of psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)