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10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology, 27-29 March 2025

Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices

Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung (IMGWF)
Universität zu Lübeck 

Venue: Lecture Hall (Hörsaal), IMGWF, Königstraße 42, 23552 Lübeck.

Mandatory registration via email at: epistemologiehistorique@gmail.com

https://episthist.hypotheses.org/


Thursday, March 27th

14:00 Welcome

14:15 Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science
Opening lecture: My Take on Historical Epistemology. A Personal Note.

15:15 Coffee-break

15:45 Annette C. Mülberger, University of Groningen
How did personality enter the workplace? Discussions on psychotechnics and the ‘human factor’ in the 1920s

16:30 Matthew Perkins-McVey, Bar-Ilan University
On ‘Chemical Tools:’ Intoxicating the ‘Normal and the Pathological’ in the Psy-Sciences

17:15 Ilaria Fornacciari, Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic)
Mirroring Mechanical Metaphors: Materials for an Archaeology of “Emotional Competence”, from Asperger to Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy (RAAT)

 

Friday, March 28th

09:30 Catriel Fierro, Autonomous University of Barcelona
‘Yes, well… But does it work?’ Effectivity, Technological Forecast and Phonographic Recording in Carl Rogers’ Psychotherapy Research Program at The Ohio State University (1939-1945)

10:15  Francesca Carta, Ca’ Foscari University
Beck Depression Inventory: from Psychometrics to Therapy

11:00 Coffee-break 

11:30  Iván Moya Diez, IMGFW, University of Lübeck
The cognitive revolution in therapeutic practice: Strategies of scientific rationality and the relative autonomy of cognitive therapy

12:15  Fanny Mertens, University of Leipzig
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and the Imperative of Speaking Truth. A Social-Philosophical Critique of the Evolutionist Scientism of Behavioural Experiments

13:00 Lunch   

14:00 Philippe Huneman, IHPST, University Paris 1/CNRS
Ancient alienism, modern psychiatry?

14:45 Marion Farge, Marie and Louis Pasteur University
From psychoanalysis to a “new psychological culture”: topicalities of the “Psy-function”

15:30 Coffee-break 

16:00 Sarah Marks, Birkbeck, University of London            

16:45 Dylan Guével, LIER-FYT, Paris, EHESS-CNRS
“How new practical issues in the reception of patients affect psychiatric knowledge: A pragmatic history of the concept of paranoia in French psychiatry in the 1930s”

17:30 Elodie Gratreau, Université de Technologie de Compiègne
Developing ambiguous classifications for a clinically relevant psychiatric research

 

Saturday, March 29th

09:30 Martin Wieser, Sigmund Freud University Berlin
How to relax in a dictatorship. On the genesis and development of Autogenic Training in Germany

10:15  Antonia Sieler, IMGFW, University of Lübeck
‘Therapy is Change, not Adaptation’- Feminist Therapeutic Practices in the Case of the BIFF (Beratung und Information für Frauen)

11:00 Coffee-break 

11:30 Luc Surjous, Paris Cité University
The relation between science and care in medicine and psychotherapy from the perspective of Georges Canguilhem’s work

12:15 Janu Höreth, IMGFW, University of Lübeck
The “Real-Life Test” at the Intersection of Epistemic and Psychotherapeutic Practices in Gender Assessment

13:00 Lunch 

14:00 Wessel de Cock, Humboldt University of Berlin
Towards a Systematic Historical Epistemology. An exemplary case study of the integration of clinical psychology into neuroscientific experimental systems in the 1990s Decade of the Brain

14:45 Grace Smith, Princeton University
Operationalizing grief: Measure-making as a looping technology in psychiatric grief in the U.S., 1975-1995

15:30 Closing remarks

 

Organizing committee:

Caroline Angleraux (iBrain U1253, INSERM de Tours)
Lucie Fabry (LIR3S, Université de Bourgogne)
Lisa Malich (IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck)
Iván Moya-Diez (IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck)
Perceval Pillon (IHPST, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS)
Matteo Vagelli (CFS, Università di Pisa)

This workshop is organized by:

ÉpistHist. Research Network on the History and the Methods of Historical Epistemology
https://episthist.hypotheses.org/

With the support of:

IMGWF, Universität zu Lübeck.
IHPST (UMR 8590), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS.
LIR3S (UMR7366),  Université de Bourgogne/CNRS.

This workshop is founded by:

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Project Number 516932573: “The cognitive revolution in therapeutic practice: adapting scientific ideals and forming subjects in Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy, 1950-1990.”