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Assessing research in the history of psychology: Past, present, and future
Author(s) -
Samelson Franz
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(199922)35:3<247::aid-jhbs4>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - order (exchange) , product (mathematics) , quantitative history , psychology , history of psychology , epistemology , history , sociology , political science , psychoanalysis , political history , philosophy , law , geometry , mathematics , finance , politics , economics
Since 1970, the “New History” of American psychology has grown into a lively specialty, characterized by tightly focused research utilizing archival source material. The collective product so far is an accumulation of disparate pieces rather than a coherent story. For the future, a debate about critical developments in the discipline's history and their causes appears desirable, in order to produce a more informative analysis of this history. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.