Heather started following the work of Harriet Stubbs, University of Edinburgh, Psychology.
Heather started following the work of Annette Mülberger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l'Educació.
Heather started following the work of Richard Noakes, University of Exeter in Cornwall, History.
Heather
Review of The Stepchildren of Science in the British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 44,1 (2011), 144146: http://journals.cambridge.org/
Faculty Member, History
Lecturer in Modern European History
About
I am a lecturer in modern European History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Prior to this appointment I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses and a lecturer within the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland (2009-June 2011) and a postdoctoral fellow within the Science, Technology and Society Research Cluster at the National University of Singapore (July 2007-December 2008).
Much of my doctoral and postdoctoral work has been concerned with the history of psychical research and parapsychology in Germany. I have published several papers on aspects of this history (see list under "Papers") and my book The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870-1939 has recently been released (November 2009) as part of Clio Medica:The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine - Rodopi (see under "Book" for more details). To read recent reviews, see under "Book".To see an interview with me about this book go to the following address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqzgpu2HXE8
I have three active research projects:
1) "The Emergence and Development of Forensic Psychology in Imperial and Inter-War Germany". This project aims to explore the neglected interdisciplinary history of forensic psychology in Germany, looking in particular at the boundary contests between psychiatrists, jurists and psychologists over the application of psychological knowledge in the courtroom.
2) "Crimes of Suggestion: Hypnosis, Psychology and the Law in Imperial Germany", which considers a number of late nineteenth and early twentieth century criminal trials, such as the Berchtold, Sauter and Czynski trials, that involved hypnosis, suggestion or false memory. My aim here is to consider the social, medical and legal meaning of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century discourse on hypnosis and crime in the German context.
3) "The psychotherapeutic use of hypnosis in late nineteenth-century sexology". Here I am particularly interested in those German-speaking psychiatrists who applied hypnosis to their homosexual patients in order to "cure" them, for example, Krafft-Ebing and Schrenck-Notzing.
