A History of Clinical Psychology

By J. Reisman. 2026

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Part 1: The First Generation: Major Events in the History of Clinical Psychology, 1909. Part 2: The Second Generation: Major Events in the History of Clinical Psychology, 1910-1939. Part 3: The Third Generation: Major EWents in the History of Clinical Psychology, 1940-1969. Part 4: The Fourth Gwneration: Major Events in the History of Clinical Psychology, 1970-1989.

Subfields: General Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Clinical Psychologists in the 2010s: 50 Years of the APA Division of Clinical Psychology (2012, background): “In 1896, Lightner Witmer, who received his doctoral degree under Wundt, established the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania, and a few years later, coined the term clinical psychology (Korchin, 1976; Reisman, 1991).”
• Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “Some historians of psychology trace the beginning of the profession of clinical psychology in the United States back to the 1886 founding of the first “psychological clinic” in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania by Lightner Witmer (Reisman, 1991).”