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Psychology has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 1887. From the start it has emphasized both scientific rigor and practical application, not always at the same time. The first professor, James McKeen Cattell, was an advocate of scientific method and careful data collection (with expensive apparatus).
Clinical psychology has grown tremendously since 1896, the year Lightner Witmer founded the world’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania (Reisman, 1976). While once associated merely with clinic-based evaluation and treatment of...
Lightner Witmer founded the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania; this event is often cited as the birth of clinical psychology 1900 Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams , the first major work on psychoanalysis
During the last ten years the laboratory of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania has conducted, under my direction, what I have called "a psychological clinic".
Clinical psychology is a core mental health discipline, which means that, together with psychiatry, psychiatric social work, and psychiatric nursing, it is responsible in the United States for the study, assessment, treatment, and prevention of abnormal behavior or psychopathology.
This reprinted article originally appeared in The Psychological Clinic, 1907, I. Witmer 's original article describes the development of the psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania and explains the function of the clinic in providing conjoint physical and mental examinations.
She earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts in psychology and biology at Bucknell University in 1945; the degree of Master of Arts in psychology from Temple University in 1951; and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1958.
