Freud in Cambridge

Forrester, John V.; Cameron, Laura

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“…Whereas natural historians had classified species according to hierarchical structures of a ‘great chain of being’ with God at the top and matter ‘devoid of spirit’ at the bottom, ecologists based their taxonomies on factors in the habitat. Rooted in Humboldt's ‘natural wholes’ and Darwinian theories of evolution, British ecology sought to map the intricate balances and patterns of energy flowing through ecological systems (Forrester & Cameron, 2017 ). Understanding this ‘economy of nature’ made it possible to manage nature to increase its productivity or to intervene to conserve valued landscapes (Cameron, 1999 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet some ecologists of the 1920s explicitly distanced themselves from practices associated with archived collections in favour of fieldwork. Hence, studies of the history of ecology often focus on the impact of field encounters on ecological thought (Anker, 2001 ; Forrester & Cameron, 2017 ; Hagen, 1992 ). Drawing on this significant body of literature, this paper exemplifies how the field‐archive relationship remained central to the making of ecological knowledge.…”

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The field and its prosthesis: Archiving Arctic ecologies in the 1920s

Bruun

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines the topological entanglements between the naturalistic field and natural history archives, arguing that the spatial categories of ‘field’ and ‘archive’ should be considered in terms of their indexical relations. Conceptually, it points to the prosthetic qualities of the archive, namely its capacity to simultaneously delimit and expand the field by facilitating novel ways of seeing and knowing it. The field, in turn, is a necessary source of plant and animal matter without which there is no archive. Bringing together geographical literatures on ‘field’ and ‘archive’ with literature on cultures and practices of collecting, this intervention is at once conceptual and empirical. The conceptual debate is hinged to, and inspired by, the practices of collecting, classifying, and ordering Arctic ecologies by the three Oxford University Arctic Expeditions to Spitsbergen (now Svalbard) in 1921–24. These expeditions have been hailed as significant episodes in the history of ecology. While ecology as a discipline shared an ordering impulse with the archive, early twentieth‐century ecologists were explicitly distancing themselves from practices they associated with ‘armchair science’. This paper exemplifies how field–archive dialogue remained central to the practices of ecology. Reading field collecting and subsequent specimen analysis as processes of active archiving, the paper hones in on select moments and practices which connected Spitsbergen‐as‐field and UK archival institutions, such as the British Museum of Natural History. In doing so, the paper draws out the distributed nature of archive and field alike, pointing to the non‐limited locality of both localised field operations and archival practices, as well as the co‐constitutional nature of these two sites of knowledge production.

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Section: Ecological Fieldwork and The Oxford Expeditionsmentioning

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The field and its prosthesis: Archiving Arctic ecologies in the 1920s

Bruun

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Therefore, the development of psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic practices, and their distinctive geographies, is a key concern for the sub-field. Attention has recently been given to tracing the genealogies of psychotherapeutic practice through an historical lens in order to raise questions regarding the inter-relationships between places and the development of particular psychotherapeutic practices (Callard, 2014; Morrison, 2017) and to aid in situating such lineages in specific cultural contexts (Forrester & Cameron, 2017). In a thematic issue of Environment and Planning D , concerning the history of the ‘psy-’ disciplines, guest editors Gagen and Linehan argue “that a geographical focus can illuminate how these forms of knowledge transformed the spatiality of cities, schools, houses, fields and playgrounds, while simultaneously showing how particular spatialities shaped the ongoing reconfiguration of psychological knowledge” (Gagen & Linehan, 2006, p. 792).…”

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“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

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McGeachan

Miller

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Transcult Psychiatry

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This article introduces the special issue of Transcultural Psychiatry entitled “Other Psychotherapies”: Healing Interactions across Time, Geographies, and Cultures. This special issue is intended to highlight that, rather than being exclusively a modern phenomenon, variants of psychotherapeutic practice have existed for millennia in diverse sociocultural contexts. This article explores the historical development of Western psychotherapy and points to the important contribution that Greco-Roman scholars from antiquity made to contemporary understandings of mental states and emotional wellbeing. The ways in which healing interactions have been localized to reflect the local cultural and geographic contexts are also highlighted through a discussion of recent work in psychotherapeutic geographies. This allows us to identify commonalities and differences between various forms of psychotherapy. We also consider how particular subcultures may influence the future development of psychotherapy. This article serves to foreshadow the themes that are explored in more detail in the collection of articles that make up the “Other Psychotherapies” special issue. The various articles that contribute to the special issue are introduced, and the key issues explored by these articles briefly highlighted. The intention of the special issue is to facilitate an opportunity to appreciate the ways in which psychotherapies are a product of the epoch, setting, and institutions that shape people’s lives.

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“…6.Much the same thing could be said of, for example, Freud in Cambridge (see Forrester & Cameron, 2017). …”

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Meaning-Change Through the Mistaken Mirror: On the Indeterminacy of “Wundt” and “Piaget” in Translation

Burman

2022

Review of General Psychology

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What does a name mean in translation? Quine argued, famously, that the meaning of gavagai is indeterminate until you learn the language that uses that word to refer to its object. The case is similar with scientific texts, especially if they are older; historical. Because the meanings of terms can drift over time, so too can the meanings that inform experiments and theory. As can a life’s body of work and its contributions. Surely, these are also the meanings of a name; shortcuts to descriptions of the author who produced them, or of their thought (or maybe their collaborations). We are then led to wonder whether the names of scientists may also mean different things in different languages. Or even in the same language. This problem is examined here by leveraging the insights of historians of psychology who found that the meaning of “Wundt” changed in translation: his experimentalism was retained, and his Völkerpsychologie lost, so that what Wundt meant was altered even as his work—and his name—informed the disciplining of Modern Psychology as an experimental science. Those insights are then turned here into a general argument, regarding meaning-change in translation, but using a quantitative examination of the translations of Piaget’s books from French into English and German. It is therefore Piaget who has the focus here, evidentially, but the goal is broader: understanding and theorizing “the mistaken mirror” that reflects only what you can think to see (with implications for replication and institutional memory).

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Freud in Cambridge

Cited by 128 publications

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The field and its prosthesis: Archiving Arctic ecologies in the 1920s

The field and its prosthesis: Archiving Arctic ecologies in the 1920s

“Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture

Meaning-Change Through the Mistaken Mirror: On the Indeterminacy of “Wundt” and “Piaget” in Translation

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