โ Scribed by Professor Thomas C. Cadwallader
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I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I predict that when a history of the history of psychology is written some centuries into the future, that it will be recognized that around 1960-about a hundred years after the modern era of psychology began with the publication of Fechner's Elements of Psychophysics, and about 2300 years after the writing of what appears to be the first history of psychology, Aristotle's De Anima-the second phase of the history of psychology began. The decade of the 1960's was a decade of foundings if there ever was one: the division of the History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association, the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciemes, the Cheiron Society, the Ph.D. program in the history of psychology a t the University of New Hampshire, the Archives of the History of American Psychology, the summer institutes in the history of psychology. And I certainly would be remiss if I didn't note that most of those foundings were, in one way or another, associated with Robert I Watson, Sr.
One of the features of the second phase of the history of psychology which I believe will distinguish it from the first is the increasing use of archival materials. Archival materials in the narrow sense are those materials which pertain to an institution and which are officially preserved by the institution (28). Such materials may well concern individual members, employees, students or other persons associated with the institution in some capacity. Many universities, especially the older ones, have archives, as do governmental agencies and some scholarly and scientific societies.
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