Re: [xmca] Re: Psych in Ussr?

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

too complex a topic for me, Anton, but plenty of team xmca talent out there.
mike

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for the forward: the topic is interesting, indeed, and is well
> worth a special issue. I guess I might presently have a half-cooked,
> almost-forgotten paper that I could eventually to contribute, and seem to
> know a couple of guys whose papers might also fit into this Cold War
> special issue of the journal, especially so since this is edition is not
> focused exclusively (predominantly) on psychology, unlike the APA journal
> History of Psychology.
>
> Yet,  I am wondering if there is anybody out there on this XMCA list who
> might be interested in joining the gang of the potential contributors to
> this special issue on Cold War science in from the Soviet perspective. Any
> volunteers, perhaps?
>
> Best,
> Anton
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> *To:* JHBS <jhbs@stu.ca>
> *Cc:* "eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 20, 2012 7:55:02 PM
> *Subject:* [xmca] Re: Psych in Ussr?
>
> Hi Ian-- I am cc'ing the discussion group, XMCA, on this reply because I
> think that the topic will be of interest to them. Moreover,
> some might have useful materials to contribute.
>
> I fear the topic may be complicated for some because the key figures on the
> international scale were also key figures on an
> interpersonal scale-- living memory.
>
> Your cold war issue looks interesting.
>
> Do you know of anything good on the relation of Soviet Psychology to the
> human potential movement? With the fall of the USSR, one of the first
> psychologists to really grab people's attention was Carl Rogers. That
> connection always struck me as interesting.
>
> mike
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:05 AM, JHBS <jhbs@stu.ca> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Mike:
> >
> > In my role as editor of the *Journal of the History of the Behavioral
> > Sciences*, I am always on the lookout for new topics/themes that would
> > interest our readers.
> >
> > As you may know, there is growing body of scholarship on the history of
> > the human sciences during the Cold War, but most of it is told from a
> > Western and especially American perspective. Scholarship examining the
> > impact of the Cold War on Russian psychology would be of great interest
> to
> > our readers. Ideally, I would like to have an issue on the ‘human
> sciences
> > and the Soviet Union’ that would be a kind of ‘follow on’ to our very
> > successful  recent special issue of JHBS ‘The Human Sciences and Cold War
> > America’ (2011):
> >
> > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.v47.3/issuetoc
> >
> > You might want to glance at some of the papers in this issue to get an
> > idea of the type of papers we publish.
> >
> > Thanks for your interest,
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > Ian Nicholson, Ph.D., Editor,
> > Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
> > Department of Psychology
> > St. Thomas University
> > Fredericton, New Brunswick
> > E3B 1P6
> > CANADA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12-02-20 10:30 AM, "mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am told the topic of Russian psych is of interest to you.
> > >
> > > What are you looking for?
> > > Mike Cole
> > > Http://Lchc.ucsd.edu has some stuff.
> > >
> >
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