Absent Minds

<p>According to one article, eighty per cent of psychology undergraduate students are women. The same article reports that eighty per cent of clinical psychologists are also women.<br><br><b>But when we think about the history psychology, who springs to mind? Jung, Freud, Pavlov, Piaget. Where are the women?</b><br><br>What of Mary Whiton Calkins, who was never awarded a doctorate because she was a woman despite her contributions shaping contemporary psychology; or Mamie Phipps Clark, whose research went on to inform the court case that ruled racial segregation illegal in the US; and power couple Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson who set up the international journal <i>Feminism and Psychology</i> and petitioned for the right for same-sex couples to marry in England.<br><br><i>Absent Minds</i> rightly seals women's place in the history of psychology. Dr Madeleine Pownall's <b>entertaining and empowering</b> narrative will <b>uncover lost legacies</b>, documenting how women shaped the discipline and provided alternative, creative and more critical ways of thinking about the human experience.</p>