Clinical Psychologist history

Alfred Binet, also in France, devised the first practical “intelligence” test in 1905; administering such tests was among the most common activities of early clinical psychologists.

It was founded by Boston physician Morton Prince in 1906 and later given by him to the American Psychological Association.

The first known use of the term clinical psychology was in a 1907 article by Lightner Witmer in the inaugural issue of Psychological Clinic, the journal he edited.

As mentioned already, the tradition of a 1-year, full-time internship was established within 12 years after the field was founded, and by about 1920 there was an informal consensus that this was a nec­essary part of training for clinical psychologists who wished to provide services to the public.

It reconstituted itself as the Clinical Section of a new organization known as the American Association for Applied Psychology (AAAP). Then, in 1945, the AAAP and the APA merged.

1947) went on to demonstrate the long-term reliability of this test and its predictive utility not only in relation to academic performance but also other life achievements.

1951). Rogers’ client-centered or person-centered approach to psychotherapy was original with him but was indirectly influenced by Freud as interpreted by the psychologist-psychoanalyst Otto Rank and the social worker Jessie Taft.

1952). Eysenck was also a pi­oneer in promoting behavioral approaches to therapy.

According to Jerome Frank’s (1961) influential book, Persuasion and Healing, such practices may be ubiqui­tous in human societies.

In another domain of psychopathology research, clinical psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman (1975) trans­lated his basic research on “learned helplessness” in dogs into a prototype for understanding how clinical depression might develop in human beings.