Chronology of Milestones in International Psychology 525The first Interamerican
Congress of Psychology took
place in Ciudad Trujillo (now
Santo Domingo) in the
Dominican Republic.
Approximately 200
psychologists from Europe, the
Near East, and North America
met in Brussels at the First
International Symposium on
Military Psychology.
The Finnish Psychological
Society was founded.
The Spanish Psychological
Society was founded.
The Austrian Professional
Association of Psychologists was
founded.
The Psychological Society of
Uruguay was founded.
The Mexican Psychological
Society was founded.
The Peruvian Society of
Psychology was founded.
The Association of Icelandic
Psychologists was founded.
The Brazilian Association of
Psychologists was founded.
The Colombian Federation of
Psychology was founded.
The Swedish Psychological
Association was founded.
The International Association for
Analytical Psychology was
established in Zurich to advance
Jungian psychology.
The Turkish Psychological
Association was founded.The Russian Soviet Federal
Socialist Republic Psychological
Society was founded by Order
495 of the Minister of Education.
The Society was a branch of the
Academy of Pedagogical
Sciences. It held its first meeting
in 1959.
The Slovak Psychological
Association was founded.
The Venezuelan Psychological
Federation was founded.
The Czechoslovak Psychological
Association was founded.
The Israeli Psychological
Association was founded.19521953195419551956195719581959Psychology was introduced at
the University of Indonesia
Faculty of Medicine in
Jakarta.The Khartoum Branch of
Cairo University introduced
psychology in the Sudan as
part of the philosophy and
sociology curricula.The Chinese Academy of
Sciences established the
Institute of Psychology in
Beijing.Psychology was introduced
in Saudi Arabia concurrent
with the founding of the
University of Riyadh.
The Hebrew University in
Jerusalem established
Israel’s first department of
psychology.The APA Convention
program featured the first
coffee hour for visitors from
abroad.
Iran’s first psychology
department was founded at
the National Teachers’
College.The Russian journalVoprosy
psikhologiibegan publication.The Polish journal Educational
Psychologybegan.
The Colombian Revista De Psichlogia
began publication.
The Chinese Psychological Society
introduced the Journal Acta Psycho-
logica Sinica,which was suspended
during the “Cultural Revolution”;
publication was resumed in 1979.(continued )TABLE 25.1 (Continued)
Congresses Societies Events Publications