Women helped lead the way in work on such prominent psychological concepts as psychoanalysis,attachment theory,racial identity, and self-esteem, as well as studying the complexities of the nervous system.Both scientific studies go back a long way, especially neuroscience.Women had to overcome a lot of challenges to be taken seriously as professionals and research subjects.

Some inspirational female psychologists and neuroscientists mentioned are Edna Frances Heidbreder, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, May-Britt Moser, Virginia E. Johnson, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Mary Whiton Calkins, Susanna Rubinstein, Milicent Washburn Shinn, Lillien Jane Martin, Maria Montessori, Margaret Floy Washburn, mother and daughter Cecile and Marthe Vogt, Celestia Susannah Parrish, Emma Sophia Baker, Margaret Keiver Smith, Julia Barlow Platt, Katharine Bement Davis, Kate Brousseau, Mary Lawson Neff, Emma Eckstein, Yekaterina Gracheva, Eleanor Acheson Gamble, Amy Eliza Tanner, Beatrice Edgell, Gina Lombroso, Ethel Dench Puffer Howes, Marie Goldsmith, Marcelle Lapicque, Clara Harrison Town, Helen Thompson Woolley, June Downey, Helga Eng, Grace Helen Kent, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Melanie Klein, Helene Deutsch, Karen Horney, Sabina Spielrein, Maria Moltzer, Tsuruko Haraguchi, Lena Stetter Hollingworth, Inez Beverly Prosser, Mamie Phipps Clark, Anna Freud, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Mary Ainsworth, Virginia Satir, Eleanor Maccoby, Brenda Milner, Edith Graef McGreer,Marian Diamond, Leda Cosmides, Harriet Babcock, Naomi Norsworthy, Clara Stern, Kate Gordon Moore, Grace Fernald, Esther Allen Gaw, Emily Burr, Augusta Fox Bronner, Jessie Taft, Mary Grace Arthur, Franziska Baumgarten, Margaret V. Cobb, Nathalie Zand, Susan Sutherland Isaacs, Tatiana Rosenthal, Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk, Gertrude Rand, Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy, Florence Goodenough, Marjorie Franklin, Florence Mateer, Maud A. Merrill, Una Lucy Fielding, Maria Grzegorzewska, Elizabeth C. Crosby, Ada Hart Arlitt, Łucja Frey, Marion Bills, Catherine Cox Miles, Hazel Martha Stanton, Louisa E. Rhine, Lois Meek Stolz, Charlotte Bühler, Psyche Cattell, etc. There are way more,but it's impossible to do them all justice here.

A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience - Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM by Dale DeBakcsy is an absolutely fascinating insight into 267 female trailblazers in what is still the relatively young scince of Psychology and its contribution to soceity as a whole

While I experienced quite a balanced representation of both genders when I studied to MSc, in soceity, the contribution of women in the field is limited (but to be fair, many don't consider the field to comprise much more than Freud's theories, but I digress)

Concise, compelling and articulate, Dale Debacksy has compiled an essntial record of some of the most significant contributions to the understanding of thought and beyond. A truly brilliant book

Thank you to NetGalley, Pen & Sword | Pen & Sword History and Dale Debakcsy for this excellent ARC. My review is left voluntarily and all opinions are my own

A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience is a non-fiction book about the women scientists of neuroscience and psychology. In this well researched and edited book, we learn about 267 women whose work helped shape the practices and understanding of mental health, brain, and cognition. As someone whose research topics is neuroscience and creativity, I had to read this book. I was not aware of many of the scientists in this book,
The further reading suggestions are helpful, and the book is comprehensive and informative. I enjoyed learning about these women’s contributions and discoveries, as well as the stories of the discoveries themselves.
4.5 stars