Date
Mar 27 – Mar 29, 2025
Workshop at the Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
10th International Workshop on Historical Epistemology
Intersections of Psychological Research and Psychotherapeutic Practices
27–29 March 2025
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.”