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5 - History of Psychology since 1945
- By James H. Capshew, Indiana University
Edited by Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham, Philippe Fontaine, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
Book:

A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences

Published online:

05 September 2014

Print publication:

22 September 2014, pp 144-182
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Summary

In the postwar period, American psychology experienced sustained exponential growth and its incorporation into nearly every facet of modern life. The history of psychology became a scholarly specialty in the 1960s, when American psychology became an influential if not the dominant idiom for professional discourse and practice in much of the world. This is the reason why this chapter, though it does draw in European work where necessary, concentrates on North American developments, focusing on scholarly contributions, with some attention paid to pedagogy and university textbooks. Intellectual developments within the history and philosophy of science, coupled with funding for research from the federal government and support for new university positions, led to the academic institutionalization of the two headed field in the United States. Critical history was aired at the annual meetings of the Cheiron Society during the 1980s.