Abstract

TORRES, Irma Roca de. Dawn of Formal Psychology in Puerto Rico: Pleiad of Influences (1900-1934). Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.1, pp.390-408.  Epub May 03, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2023.75320.

This article presents the biographies of nine professionals who contributed to the development of Psychology in Puerto Rico and that are included in The Palgrave Biographical Encyclopedia of Psychology in Latin America, edited by Ana Jacó-Vilela, Hugo Klappenbach y Rubén Ardila, the whose projected publication is for 2023. The Puerto Rican contribution includes the biographies of 54 professionals that contributed to the academic development of Psychology in Puerto Rico. The search for these pioneers started at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, with the development of the University of Puerto Rico, our first university, founded in 1900. The article presents biographical sketches of the lives of these nine pioneer university professors, their academic formations, their professions, their multiple theoretical perspectives, and the visions that they brought to Psychology. The professionals included in this article are: Domingo Rubio Arana, Charles W. St. John, Juan B. Soto, Fred C. Walters, Malvina Monefeldt, Alfredo Silva Cofresí, Néstor I. Vincenty, Ana María O’Neill and Teobaldo Casanova.

Keywords : History of Psychology; Puerto Rico; University of Puerto Rico; Teaching of Psychology..

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