History of a historian of psychology in the United States.

Abstract

This article focuses on the author's activities in the United States relating to the history of psychology. It does not deal with his involvement in applied psychology in Europe (1937-1939), and it only touches on research on malnutrition and behavior, illumination and performance, and aging carried out in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene at the University of Minnesota (1941-1958). Activities bearing on the history of psychology dominated the years spent at Lehigh University (1959-1979) and the years of retirement (1979-present). The principal events include organizing the first scientific meeting of the American Psychological Association's Division 26, History of Psychology (1966); two summer institutes on the history of psychology (1968, 1971); the editing of a historically oriented volume on psychology in the USSR (1972) and of R.I. Watson's papers on the history of psychology (1977); organizing and editing a volume containing 6 monographs on the history of psychology in the United States (1984); and editing a volume concerned with international research during the years 1919-1981 on malnutrition and behavior.

História da psicologia: pesquisa, formação, ensino

“…4) A biografia de David Jayne Hill, uma figura que marca a transição nos Estados Unidos entre a "velha Psicologia", filosófica, e a "Psicologia nova", científica e experimental, baseou-se em estudos de arquivos. No ano de 1881, Hill recebeu o título de Professor de Psicologia, o primeiro no mundo (Brožek, 1984). 5) Numa visita à Europa, no começo dos anos 70, nos arquivos da Universidade de Utrecht, Holanda, vi um manuscrito incompleto de EC.…”

Obituary: Josef Brožek.

“…Thus did Josef knit together the young incumbents of positions in history of psychology in different lands. Many more than even realize it are in his debt for his institution building of "historiography of psychology around the world" (Broz ˇek, 1999).…”

“…In the spring and summer of 1937, he worked in a vocational guidance center in Prague, and during the next 2 years he was employed as an industrial psychologist at the Bata Shoe Factory in Zlin. In the fall of 1939, he left to continue his studies in the United States, first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the University of Minnesota (Brožek, 1999a).…”