Absent Minds: The untold story of the women who changed psychology forever

A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be human

If asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget.

But what of Mary Whiton Calkins, who has still not received her doctorate from 1895 on account of her gender despite her research influencing contemporary psychology; or Mamie Phipps Clark, whose work informed the US court case that ruled racia...