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History of Psychology

Exhibitions

Bedlam: Custody Care and Cure 1247–1997
(www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/bedlam/f_bed.htm)
•Online London Museum exhibit that relates the story of Bethlem Royal Hospital.

The American Crowbar Case and Nineteenth Century Theories of Cerebral Localization
(www.neurosurgery.org/cybermuseum/pre20th/crowbar/crowbar.html)
•A Cybermuseum of Neurosurgery entry on the famous Phineas Gage case.
Note: See also The Phineas Gage Information Page, maintained by Malcolm Macmillan, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia (www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/).

Freud: Conflict & Culture
(lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/freud/)
•View the online version of the controversial Library of Congress Freud exhibit.

Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
(serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Table.html)
•Adaptation of catalog accompanying National Library of Medicine and American Psychological Association exhibit honoring APA's Centennial (1992).