| Activity | Date of Birth: 24/06/1941
Place of Birth: Oxford, UK
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
1964-1967 BA Philosophy & Psychology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1967-1968 MSc Social Psychology, London School of Economics ( LSE)
1997 D.Litt. University of London
Professional Career:
1969-1992 Lecturer, 1978 Senior Lecturer, 1991 Principal Lecturer at West Ham College of Technology which became North East London Polytechnic, Polytechnic of East London and University of East London
1978-1979 Associate Professor, Oregon State University, Oregon USA (Sabbatical)
During the late 1970s and 1980s taught History of Psychology Course at City of London Polytechnic (Guildhall University post-1992)
1993-1994 Part Time Lecturer, Leeds University
1993-1994 Honorary Research Fellow, Staffordshire University
1994-1998 Part Time Principal Lecturer, Staffordshire University
1996-1997 Associate Professor (Social Psychology), University of Notre Dame, London Programme
1998 Established the Centre for the History of Psychology at Staffordshire University, being its first Director
1998-2005 Professor of the History of Psychology, Staffordshire University
2002-2006 Director of the British Psychological Society's History of Psychology Centre
Involvement with BPS and other institutions:
2000-2006 Honorary BPS Archivist
1990-1994 Chair, BPS History and Philosophy of Psychology Section
1990-1994 Member of BPS Council
1988 Co-founder of Human Evolution Interdisciplinary Research Group
1990-1995 Meeting Participant 'Achievement Project'
1968-1969 Research Assistant, MRC Unit at LSE
1969-1972 Market Research for Mass Observation
1998 Appointed co-editor (with A.Lovie and G.Bunn) of a proposed History of British Psychology supported by the BPS Centenary Committee.
1998 Member of the BPS Book Advisory Committee overseeing the above Project
1999 Book reviews editor, History and Philosophy of Psychology
2000 Editorial board, Theory and Psychology
2002 Co-organisor of the The European Society of the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS) Annual Conference, Durham
2003-2006 Co-organiser BPS History of Psychology Seminars
1971-1972 Voluntary work in therapeutic community at Bexley Mental Hospital
1993-1994 Case-worker with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Civil Violence.
Sources: G D Richards' CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | a. Books
1969. Co-author of Man In Society, a two-part National Extension College publication undertaken by the late Prof. Hilda Himmelweit.
1987 Human Evolution. An Introduction for the Behavioural Sciences London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 374pp
1989 On Psychological Language London:Routledge 170pp
1992 Mental Machinery: The Origins & Consequences of Psychological Ideas. Part One 1600-1850 London:Athlone Press 490pp
1996, 2002 (2nd ed.), 2010 (3rd ed.) Putting Psychology in Its Place: A Critical Historical Overview London: Routledge. 197pp, 367pp., 426 pp.
1997, 2011 (2nd ed.) 'Race', Racism and Psychology. Towards a Reflexive History London: Routledge 372pp, n.a. (in press, due out November).
1999 History of Psychology: The Centre on the Edge Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Staffordshire University Press
2001 co-editor with G.C. Bunn & A.D. Lovie Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections, Leicester & London: British Psychological Society and Science Museum
2009 Psychology: the Key Concepts London: Routledge xv+264
2011 Psychology, Religion and the Nature of the Soul: A Historical Entanglement, New York etc.: Springer xiv+176
Seeking publisher but complete. Creationism: Design Errors and Cross-Purposes
b. Refereed Journal Papers and contributions to reference works etc.
1984 'Getting the Intelligence Controversy Knotted' Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 37 77-79
1984 entries on Bain, Donders, Fechner, Hall, Herbart & James for Roy Porter (ed) Liber Amicorum, Franco Maria Ricci
1986 'Freed hands or enslaved feet? A note on the implications of ground-dwelling bipedalism' Journal of Human Evolution 15(3) 143-150
1987 'Of what is history of psychology a history?' British Journal for the History of Science 20(2) 201-212
1989 'Human Behavioural Evolution: A Physiomorphic Model' Current Anthropology 30(2) 244-255
1991 'James and Freud: Two Masters of Metaphor'. British Journal of Psychology vol 82 205-215
1991 'The Refutation that Never Was: The reception of the Aquatic Ape Theory 1972-1987' in M.Roede et al (eds) The Aquatic Ape: Fact or Fiction? London: Souvenir Press pp.115-126
1991 'Psychology and Literature: Partners, rivals or different realms?' J.Radford & D.Smith (eds) Uses of Literature in Understanding and Teaching Psychology B.P.S. Group of Teachers of Psychology Occasional Papers 11. pp.46-53
1992 'The Absence of Psychology in the Eighteenth Century: A Linguistic Perspective', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science vol.23 (2) 195-211
1994 'Resurrecting the History of Psychology' Psychology Teaching Review vol.3(2) pp.75-100
1994 'The social contexts of psychology' The Psychologist vol.7 (10) pp. 456-457 1994
1995 '"To know our fellow men to do them good": American Psychology's continuing moral project' History of the Human Sciences 8 (3) 1-24
1996 'On the necessary persistence of folk psychology' in W.O'Donohue & R. Kitchener (eds) Philosophy and Psychology Sage
1997 'The Presence and Absence of 'Race' as a topic in British Psychology 1913-1940', in M.Cheung Chung (ed.) Psychological Concepts from Philosophical and Historical Perspectives Leicester: The British Psychological Society. History and Philosophy of Psychology Section
1997 9 entries for Sheehy, Chapman & Conroy (eds) Biographical Dictionary of Psychology Routledge
1997 'Why I Study History of Psychology' The Psychologist 10(12) p.554
1998 'The Relevance of History: the Case of Psychology and 'Race' ' The Psychologist 11(4) 179-181
1998 'Rethinking Race Psychology: Thomas Russell Garth 1872-1939: The Race Psychologist who changed his mind' 34(1) 15-32
1998 'Psychology and Religion: A Suitable Case for Historical Treatment', in Man Cheung Chung (ed.) Current Trends in History and Philosophy of Psychology Leicester: British Psychological Society. History and Philosophy of Psychology Section. 8-14
1998 'Getting a Result: The Expedition's Psychological Research 1898-1913', in A.Herle & S.Rouse (eds) Cambridge and the Torres Strait Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition, Cambridge University Press pp.136-157
1999 27 entries for the New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought.
2000 'Putting Britain on the Couch: The Popularisation of Psychoanalysis in Britain 1918-1940' Science in Context 13(2) 183-230
2000 'Psychology and the Churches in Britain 1919-1939: Symptoms of Conversion' History of the Human Sciences 13(3):57-84.
2001 'Edward Cox and the Psychological Society of Great Britain 1875-1879: The Meanings of an Institutional Failure' chapter in Bunn, Lovie & Richards (eds) - see previous section.
2001 'Genetic possession' Psychology, Evolution and Gender 3(2) 197-203
2002 'The Psychology of Psychology: A Historically Grounded Sketch', Theory and Psychology 12(1) 7-36
2003 'Its an American Thing: the Race and IQ controversy from a British perspective' in A. Winston (ed) Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology, Washington DC: APA.. pp.137-169
2003 'Palæopsychology: the road not taken', Sexualities, Evolution and Gender 5(1) 23-30
2004 11 entries for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography revised 2nd ed. on: Alexander Bain, Dr John Bulwer, Kenneth Craik, R. Dunn, H.J. Eysenck, J.C.Flugel, W. McDougall, C. MacFie Campbell, G. Elliot Smith, R.H. Thouless, E.B.Titchener
2004 'Noah Porter's Problem and the origins of American Psychology' Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 40 (Fall) 343-374
2004 'The British Journal of Psychology Centenary: A Preliminary Content 'Survey and Its Problems' British Journal of Psychology 95(4) 523-543
2005 'The pattern of History of Psychology teaching on British undergraduate Psychology courses' Psychology Teaching Review11(1) 12-24
2005 'Conceptual and Historical Issues', section of Graham Davey (ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology, Oxford University Press
2005 'Can Psychological research on 'race' be socially responsible?', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol.30(5) 241-246
2005 'The Psychology of Explanation', History & Philosophy of Psychology 7(1) 53-61
2005 'Emotions into Words - Or Words into Emotions?' in P. Gouk & H. Hills (eds) Representing Emotions. New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine, Aldershot: Ashgate pp.49-65
2007 'Design Errors and Cross Purposes: Thoughts on Creationism, Intelligent Design and How Scientists Have Responded', Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless xvi(4) 223-250
2008 'Jung's Social Psychological Meanings', Journal of Community and Applied Psychology 18(2) 108-118
2008 Looking Back: William McDougall's Introduction to Social Psychology The Psychologist 21(7) 654-655
2009 'Good Will in the Valley of the Shadow: Religion, Psychotherapy and Politics from 1945 to the Early 1960s', History of Psychology 12 183-200
2010 'Loss of innocence in the Torres Straits', The Psychologist 23 (12) 182-183
(in press) 'The Mind in Time: a Provisional Position Statement' History and Philosophy of Psychology |