Stam, Hank - Psychology

Personal Information
First Name: 
Hank
Last Name: 
Stam
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Psychology
University Affiliation: 
University of Calgary
Phone: 
4032205683
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Psychology
Subject: 
Psychology
Psychiatry
Geographical Region: 
Europe
North America
Time Period: 
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of early 20th century psychology and psychiatry; history of phenomenological psychology
Academics
PHD Program: 
Psychology
PHD University: 
Carleton University
PHD Date: 
1982
Major Publications: 
Radtke, H. L. & Stam, H. J. (Eds.), (1994). Power/gender: Social relations in theory and practice. London: Sage Publications. Stam, H. J. (Ed.), (1998). The body and psychology. London: Sage Publications. Stam, H. J. (2003). Retrieving the past for the future: Boundary maintenance in historical and theoretical psychology. In D. B. Hill and M. J. Krall (Eds.), About psychology: Essays at the crossroads of history, theory, and philosophy (pp.147-163). New York: SUNY Press. Baydala, A. & Stam, H. J. (2004). The polis, emancipation and subjectivity: On the social uses of psychoanalysis. In W. E. Smythe & A. Baydala (Eds.), Studies of how the mind publicly enfolds into being (pp. 3-28). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Stam, H. J. (2004). The dialogical self, meaning and theory: Making the subject. In W. E. Smythe & A. Baydala (Eds.), Studies of how the mind publicly enfolds into being (pp. 133-173). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. Stam, H. J. (2004). Reconstructing the subject: Kurt Danziger and the revisionist project in historiographies of psychology. In A. Brock, J. Louw & W. van Hoorn (Eds.), Rediscovering the history of psychology: Essays inspired by the work of Kurt Danziger (pp. 19-32). New York: Kluwer. Stam, H. J. (2004). A sound mind in a sound body: A critical historical analysis of health psychology. In M. Murray (Ed.), Critical Health Psychology (pp. 15-30). Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Stam, H. J. (2004). Unifying Psychology: Epistemological act or disciplinary maneuver?, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 1259-1262. Stam, H. J. (2004). Is There (Still) a Place for Theory in Psychology? History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 16, no. 2, 3-9. Bryceland, C. & Stam, H. J. (2005). Empirical Validation and Professional Codes of Ethics: Description or Prescription? Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 18, 131-155.. Stam, H. J. (2006). On the uses of theory. The General Psychologist, 41(2), 30-32. Misbach, J. & Stam, H. J. (2006). Medicalizing melancholia: Exploring profiles of psychiatric professionalization. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 42, 41-59. Stam, H. J. (2006). Physician, heal thyself: The fate of the professional cum critic. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 385-389. Stam, H. J. (2006). The Dialogical Self and the Renewal of Psychology. International Journal for Dialogical Science, 1(1), 99-117. Halpin, P. F. & Stam, H. J. (2006). Inductive inference or inductive behavior: Fisher and Neyman-Pearson approaches to statistical testing in psychological research (1940-1960). American Journal of Psychology, 119, 625-653. Stam, H. J. (2006). Preface. In A. Craig, What is the Self? A Philosophy of Psychology. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press. Stam, H. J. (2006). Pythagoreanism, meaning and the appeal to number. New Ideas in Psychology, 24, 240-251. Stam, H. J. (2006). Kann man zugleich professioneller und kritischer Psychologe sein? [The project for a critical psychology and the status of the professional.] Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, 30(1), 31-44. Stam, H. J. & Kalmanovitch, T. (2007). Animals, children and other species: Constituting psychological categories one instrument at a time. In V. van Deventer et al. (Eds.), Citizen City. Toronto, Captus Press. Van Hezewijk, R. & Stam, H. J. (in press). Idols of the Psychologist: Johannes Linschoten and the Demise of Phenomenological Psychology in the Netherlands. History of Psychology.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
History of Science Society, Cheiron: Society for the History of the Behavioral Sciences; Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Psychological Association
Courses Taught: 
Principles of Psychology Contemporary Issues in Applied Psychology Critical Issues in Psychology History of Psychological Thought Personality Contemporary Theories in Psychology Special topics in the History of Psychology Graduate Conference Courses in History and Systems of Psychology, Social Psychology