| Level | File |
| Ref No | AUD/002/OHP 54 |
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| Title | Mittler, Peter - Recording and Selected publications |
| Site | Interviewee's office at home in Manchester. |
| Date | 30 November 2009 |
| Extent | 1-CDR |
| Description | CDR sound recording of an interview with Professor Peter J. Mittler CBE, FBPsS , CPsychol., Emeritus Professor of Special Needs Education, University of Manchester for the British Psychological Society's Oral History project.
The interview was conducted by Julie Perks in 2009.
Topics covered:
Running order:
Early experience predisposing to a career in psychology
Early days in psychology:
Early working career:
offered training at Maudlsey Hostpial Monte Shapiro but could not grant - learnt clinical psychology in the end through Eleanor Nathan.
Working life:
Role of professional bodies in his professional life:
Mentors, other people, books, or literature which had the most influence on his career.
Memories of conferences, views of his contemporaries
Personal and family life related to, or had an impact, on his role as a psychologist.
Thoughts about his field of psychology and predictions for the future of his field.
Ends.
Total Running time: c 139mins
Note: Peter Mittler's published memoir 'Thinking Globally Acting Locally: A Personal Memoir, A Personal Journey' (AuthorHouse) (2010) |
| RunTime | On one CDR disk, running time c 139 minutes. |
| Format | Digital Disk |
| Notes | The History of Psychology Centre is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our users. Be aware that our catalogue contains historic terminology relating to mental health which could be considered offensive. The terminology exists within the original record and has been retained to inform users on viewpoints at the time. It in no way reflects the attitudes of the cataloguers or the British Psychological Society. |
Note: draft typed chapters of Mittler's memoirs accompany the recording (Trying to Become A Psychologist, Cambridge, Excursions into Policy: The National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped (175-1980), Education, Education Education 1977-1995 Propelled into Management0. Also copies of some offprints:
Services for the Mentally Subnormal by Peter Mittler published in New Society (no 55) 17 October 1963
Education of Psychotic Children An Account of Work at Smith Hospital, Henley on Thames by Peter Mittler published in Special Education Winter 1963
Report of the Working Party on Subnormality (BPS English Division of Professional Psychologists Educational and Clinical) published in the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 16, 53, 1963
Communication and The Withdrawn Childen - papers rpesented at the Annual Conference of the Guild of Teachers of Backward Children, Leicester 1963
The Use of Form Board in Development Assessment by Peter Mittler publication in Development Medical Child Neurologiy 1964, 6, 510-516
Planning Care for the Mentally Subnormal - letter from Mittler published in The Lancel April 18 1964
Hospital and Community Care of The SubNormal by MIttler and J H F Castell - report of a BPS Working Party published in The Lancet 18 April 1964 pp 873-875
The Contriubtion of Intelligence Testing to Classification by Petter Mittler published in The Journal of Mental Subnormality June 1964
Wechsler Test - letter from Mittler published in The Lancet 1 August 1964
Trends in the Mental Health Services - typescript review by Mittler of proceedings of symposium, review published in the British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 1964
Under Achievement At School by Peter Mittler published in Education Today 1965, 15, 15-17. Also published in the Listener 29 October 1964
Intelligence of Patients in Subnormality Hospitals letter from Mittler published in the British journal of Psychiatry Vol III No. 481 December 1965
Intelligence of Patients in Subnormality Hospitals: A Survey of Admissions in 1961 by J H F Castell and Peter Mittler published in the British Journal of Psychiatry Vol 111 No 472, March 1965. Part of work for BPS on the Mental Health Act 1959
The Next Steps End of Segregation Called For - article about address by Peter Mittler, published in Parents Voice June 1966 (16, No 2) 12-13 includes photograph of Mittler;
The Education of Children in Hospitals for the Subnormal: A Survey of Admission by Petter Mittler and Mary Woodward published in Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology Vol 8 No 1 February 1966, pp 16-25 based upon Children in Hospitals for the Subnormal: A Survey of Admissions and Educational Facilities (1966) British Psychological Society
The Mental Health Services Peter Mittler Fabian Research Series 252 Fabian Society February 1966
The Psychological Assessment of Autistic Children by Peter Mittler - chapter 6 in Early Childhood Autism, edited by J K Wing, London Pergamon. 1966
Current Research and Treatment article about the Conference of Special Education, published in Parents Voice December 1967
The State of the Nation (Peter MIttler) - published in Mental Health 1968 Summer; 27(Summer): 2-4
Contributions of the Clinical Psychology by Mittler - published in Modern Trends in Mental Health and SubNormality 1. 1968
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| Language | English |
| Related Material | BPS/001/11/04/02/02/03 Mental Health Act Subnormality Working Party Reports 1964-1966
USPTC/01/98 Language Imitation Test (LIT) |
| RelatedRecord | USPTC/01/89 |
| BPS/001/11/04/02/02/03 |
| BPS/002/2/04/03/06 |
| AccessConditions | Authorised Users. View by Appointment |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 13: BPS History of Psychology Centre, London |
| Term | Psychotic disorders |
| Child psychology |
| Special education |
| Copyright | Subject to the condition of the original, copies may be supplied for private research use only on receipt of a signed undertaking to comply with current copyright legislation. Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Head of the History of Psychology Centre and Archives and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. Where possible, assistance will be given in identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material |
| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |