The first counseling psychologist

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Who is the very first psychologist, mainly counceling psychologist?

-- Sabrina Ferguson (angel_cutie209@yahoo.com), November 07, 2002

Answers

You'll find a history of counseling psychology in

1980 Whiteley, John M. (Ed.) The History of Counseling Psychology. Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole. 1984 Whiteley, John M Counseling Psychology: A Historical Perspective Schenectady, NY: Alexandria, VA: Character Research Press

There is also a history of the counseling psychology division of APA in Vol. III of the series Univication through division: Histories of the Divisions of the American Psychological Association, edited by Donald A. Dewsbury and published by the American Psychological Association. Division 17, Counseling Psychology, is the first division featured in that volume.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), November 08, 2002.


The title of the first experimental psychologist is conventionally given to Wilhelm Wundt, who opened the first experimental psychology laboratory in Leipzig in 1879. Others, of course, did work that we now consider to have been experimental psychology (Weber, Fechner, Helmholtz, etc.) though not under that name. The fist clinical psychologist was the American Lightner Witmer (he invented the phrase) who earned his doctorate under Wundt. Counseling psychology came along much later -- perhaps as late as the 1950s. It is hard to say who, exactly, should get the "title" of having been "the first."

conseling psychologist

-- Christopher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), November 08, 2002.


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