THE NEW HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY:A Review and Critique

Аннотация

In the past 30 years, the “new history of psychology” and its adherents haveadvocated a critical approach to scholarship, increased use of primary sources, afocus on sociopolitical forces, and the active inclusion of psychologists fromunderrepresented groups. This article argues that many scholars exaggerate thedifferences between old and new history of psychology, and that where the differ-ences are indeed large, those discrepancies reveal certain limitations unique to thenew history approach. These limitations, presented in the form of 5 questions posedto new historians, lead to a discussion of professional issues in the history ofpsychology.