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Introduction

Trudy Dehue (1951) is a full professor of philosophy and history of science. She graduated in psychology (MA, 1983) and philosophy (MA, 1985). Earlier she finished a school for higher vocational education and worked in a child psychiatric institution. In 1990 she gained a PhD (summa cum laude) on a philosophical and historical thesis on the changing concepts of 'research' and 'objectivity' in psychology (published in 1995 with Cambridge University Press). Her most recent book, published in Dutch in 2008, discusses the changing meaning of the concept of 'clinical depression' (see 'research').  

Since 1995 she is program chair of the research group Theory and History of Psychology. She also chairs the department of Differential Psychology, Methodology and History (Department of Psychology University of Groningen). 

 

Main research subjects

-The biological turn in psychology and psychiatry

-Legal versus illegal drugs and how the distinction is being made

-The history and assumptions of research methods 

-The meaning of concepts such as 'science', 'research', 'objectivity' and 'evidence based'

 

Editorial boards
- De Academische Boekengids (2000-present)
- History of Psychology (HoP) (1998-present)
- Theory and Psychology (T&P) (2005-present)
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JHBS) (2000-2005)

  Other memberships

-Social Sciences Council (SWR) of the KNAW

-Advisory board on standards of research quality of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Until 2009. Report  'Quality Assurance'; www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20081095Lid

 -Steering Committee European Neuroscience and Society Network (ESNS), funded by the ESF (www.neurosocieties.eu).

 -Jury P.C.Hooft-award for Dutch literature (2005, essay, winner Frédéric Bastet)

 -Chair Steering Committe Evaluation Multiproblem Families  Groningen: www.bjzgroningen.nl

 -Chair Steering committee Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, University of Groningenwww.rug.nl/gmw/onderzoek/rff/index

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