Does anyone know any where I can find some good resources for the history of psychology in the Netherlands? I'm finding it particularly difficult to find journal articles. Thanks!

-- Trudy Willis (trudywillis@hotmail.com), March 19, 2002

Answers

Unfortunately, most of the book-length histories are in Dutch. There is one in English:

Trudy Dehue, Changing the Rules: Psychology in the Netherlands, 1900- 1985. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

There is also a chapter by Willem van Hoorn in Virginia Staudt Sexton and Henryk Misiak (Eds.), Psychology around the world. Brooks/Cole, 1976.

Recent articles include the following:

van Drunen, P., & van Strien, P. I1999). Psychology in The Netherlands: Recent trends and current situation. European Psychologist, 4, 263-271.

Belzen, J. A. I2001). The introduction of the psychology of religion to The Netherlands: Ambivalent reception, epistemological concerns, and persistent patterns. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 37, 45-62.

Abma, R., & Jansz, J. I2000). Radical psychology institutionalized: A history of the journal Psychologie & Maatschappij [Psychology & Society].. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 1- 14.

Leibovici, S. I1999). Dutch historians and depth psychology. Psychohistory Review, 27, 49-57.

Belzen, J. A. I1998). "Searching for the soul": Religious factors in Leendert Bouman's development of a 'psychological psychiatry." History of Psychiatry, 9, 303-333.

Mulder, E., & Heyting, F. I1998). The Dutch curve: The introduction and reception of intelligence testing in the Netherlands, 1908-1940. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 34, 349-366.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), March 19, 2002.