522 International Psychology
E. Claparède convened the
first International Congress of
Applied Psychology in Geneva.
The 17 participants from eight
countries founded the
International Association of
Applied Psychology, the oldest
international organization of
individual psychologists.
The first International Congress
on Mental Hygiene met in
Washington, DC.
The International Association of
Applied Psychology was founded.The Chinese Psychological
Society was founded but was
dissolved after a few years.The Moscow Psychological
Society was disbanded and its
members (along with members of
the St. Petersburg Philosophical
Society) were exiled to the West.
The Indian Psychological
Association was founded.The Japanese Psychological
Association was founded in Tokyo
at the country’s first psychology
convention.
The Hungarian Psychological
Association was founded.The Argentine Psychological
Society was founded.19181920192119221925192619271928192919301935South Africa’s first chair and
department of psychology
were established at
Stellenbosch University.
The first Chinese Department
of Psychology was
established at Nanking
Normal School.
Yugoslavia’s first psychology
institute was established at
the University of Zagreb.The first Finnish Institute of
Psychology was founded at
the University of Turku.Uruguay’s first psychology
chair was established at the
Institutos Normales de
Montevideo.
The first Greek psychology
laboratory was established at
the University of Athens.
China’s first psychology
laboratory was established at
Beijing University.Ivan Pavlov addressed the 9th
International Congress of
Psychology in New Haven.
For the first and only time,
APA canceled its annual
convention to encourage its
members’ participation at the
Congress.Swiss publisher Bircher produced
Hermann Rorschach’s
Psychodiagnostik,describing the
inkblot method of personality
assessment. Seven other publishers had
previously declined the manuscript and
accompanying cards. Rorschach died
10 months later.
The Chinese Psychological Society
published the country’s first
psychological journal,Psychology.Psychological Abstracts was first
published under the auspice of APA.The University of Buenos Aires
Faculty of Philosophy and letters
introduced the first Latin American
journal,Anales del Institute de
Psicologia.TABLE 25.1 (Continued)
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