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A
History
D
Ofthe
ivision
P
of
sychotherapy
AmericanPsychologicalAssociation
by
Mathilda
B.
Canter,
P
h.
D.
OntheOccasion
of
the APA Centennial
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PSYCHOLOGIC,¢
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
[ntroducti
on
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Be
ginni
ngs
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of
ourown:The Division
of
Psychotherapy,
APA
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1967-1968
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1968-1969............................................................................................10
1969-1970
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1971-1972 ................................................................................
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1973-1974............................................................................................
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1981-1982........................... ...................
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1983-1984.....................
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1988.......................
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1989......................
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1990
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1991............................................................
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Concluding
Rel11
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rk
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Appendix
A:
Pe
ti
tion
r
or
th
e
Fo
r
ma1i
on
of a New Divis
ion
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Append
ix
B:
Officers
and
Boa
rd
Members
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Appendix
C:
Di
Min
guishcd
P
: o .
y
cholo~i
s
l
Award forContributton
:.
toPsyc
hothcr.:lpy
an
d
Psy
c
hol
ogy
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0:
Jac
kD.
Kr:l
'\:
neT
Mem
o
ri
al
Award
Recip
te
nts
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Appendix
E:
SpecialIssues
of
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INTRODUCT
I
ON
As the AmericanPsychologicalAssociation celebrates its Cemennial
in
199
2.
oursense
of
historybecomes increasingly
s..1
Iient.and
\\o'C
find ourselves focusinggreater and greater interest on our own
rOOIS,
our
own development asthe Division
of
Psychotherapy.In
so
doing. we go backm
or
elhan 30 years, when
our
stOTY
really began. While this isnota vcrylongtime,
by
historicalstandards,
it
i
s.
unfo
rt
unately.al
ongcnough
lime
in
which to loserecords.reports.andpeople-
th
estuff
of
whichsuchhistoriesarcmade.
So
thisrecorderhas becomeadelective.
trying to piecetogether from available data.the material \",hichbelongshere.Ever
optimistic.
I
have leftblanks to fill
in
names. dates.
etc
.
at
limes.
in
thehope thatsomeobsessive-compulsivc packratslold-limerswillanswerm)'calJand answer my
questions! Lel meassure you.however.thatwhatI
don't
have evidencefor.Ido
notinc
lu
de
.
So
thismaybe laken asasomewhat lessthan complete. perhaps. but
hopefulIyneverlessthanaccurate.account
of
the Division
of
Psychotherapy
of
hl!
American Psychol
ogic:'11
Association.
BEGINN
I
NGS
PIAP: PSYCHOLOGISTS INTERESTED
IN
THE
ADVANCEMENT
OF
PSYCHOTHERAPYA
copy
orVal.
I No.I
orthe
PIAP Bllllelill.
datedJuly. 1961.was a realfind,
andprovided thekinds
of
backgroundinformation Iwaslookingfor:
It
wasduringthe 1960 APAConvention that a group
of
APApsychologistssharinginceresL<
n
psychotherapybanded together tofonn PLAP. an organiz
.
.tion
dedicated
(0
theadvancement
of
theteaching andpracticc
of
psychotherapy. thetraining
01
psychotherapists.and
th
e
co
nduct
of
rese.:1.rch
in psychotherapy.
This
aClion
\Va,
basedontheirsharedperceptionthat APAand
its
Divisions"'
ere
not
representin~
adequatelytheirscientificand professionalimerests.
An activeand ambitious grouP. chairedby Arthur H.Daviso
n.
PI
AP
presented
workshopsandInstitutes
in
major areas
of
the United States,ledbyprofessioll:lls
whohad maderecognized
co
ntributionsin the field
of
psychotherapy.
Th.:y
presented progmmsat APA conventions.And
Lhey
startedplans for publishing
,I
journa
l,
Psychotherapy: Theory. Research
and
Practice.
LO
be
edited by
ElIgcn~'
T.Gendlin. Reading the rosters
of
Officers,Board membersandCommil1cech:Ul\involved in PIAPfrom1
96
1onismuch like readingalist
of
the i
ll
ustriompsychologist/psychothcrapists
in
theUnitedStatesl Among its Presidents.fo
ll
owing Dr. Davison,were LeonardPearson. Reuben Fine, Hans Strupp.andGem'
Gendlin_ Olher OfficersandBoardmembersincluded Ronald
E.
Fox. whoscrvl,1asTreasurer.JulesBarron,who was Chair
of
Publicationsand served as Editor
01
the
PI
AP
Bulletill.
Vic
Rail11Y.
Jack Krasner. Vin Rosenthal. Harold Lindn
cr
.1
\,
41
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Blau. Jim BugenLhal.
AI
Ellis.Mel Gravitz.BobHarper. Max Siegel. Lawrence
Bookbinder.Henrv Guze.FredSpam:.-,Erica Chance ...helist
gres
on and on!Plans toorganizeanew Division
of
APAwerediscussed-withconsiderableheal
generated, apparently-but thefinaldecision
wa
sto
defer
such action, and
see
howresponsive APAand itsDivisions.particularly Division 12(Clinical.)would
be
totheirneeds_PIAP: A
SECT
ION
OF
DIVISI
ON
12,
APA
In
March
of
1963.EugeneGendlin, President
or
PIAP.received a lellerfrom
Victor Rairny.
Pre
sident
of
Division 12, informing him thatonFebruary 23.1963.
theExecutive Comminee
of
the Division
of
ClinicalPsychology had unanimouslyapprovedPI
AP
as a section
of
theirDivision.This seemed a natural and appropriateaffiliation.and,accordingt
oa
PIAPreportdated AprilI
963and
found
in
th
eAPA's
membership files, forthe
fi
rsttime psychotherapy asafield wasexplicitly
representedin APA. PIAPdeveloped
it
sownBy-La\\'s,
e~ecled
itsown
?ffic~rs
and ExecutiveBoard. assessedmembershipdues.and publisheda
Bu
lletin for
It
smembership_ From the Libf'MYofCongress. Iwas able
10
getmy handson twomore
issues
of
that Bulletin. Vol.
3,
No.Iand Vol.4. o.
2.
Such a find!
In
the
PIAPBul/e
lill
Vol.3,No.1 datedJul1e 1963,andeditedby Jules
Ba
rron.Treasure.-Anita Montaguereported sending outbi
ll
s
to
over
600members(incidentally.
dues
wereS5,then,)andquickly the membershipgrewtoaboutI
CK>?
Lookim!
al
thelist
of
Officers and Board,wenotedsome
who
weIll
on
to
lead
10
Divisio;
29
.our
pastpresidentsTed Blau. Bob Harper, Max Siegel,Jules Barron.
and CarlZimeL Ialsonoted wi
th
interest mention
of
the formation
of
anAdministrative Committee to
carryo
nthe
day
-to-daybusiness
of
theSection,and
1
e..'1fned
Ihat a
r.-
:lembershipDirectOry.a simple.mimeographed listing wasunder
way under the direction
of
RichardRobertson. while Keilh Hoover had takenon
~e
responsibility
fo
rpreparing acomprehensive
directoryof
al
linstitutions oragencl
cs
offering programsatthelevel
of
postgraduate tmining
in
psych
ot
herapy.Veryactiveprogramming was
one
of
the major
goab of
theseetio.n.withworkshopsand
sy
mposia plannedforpresentation during the APAconvention and
atregional andothermeetingsthroughoul theyeartoprovide qualitypostgraduate
trainino in psychotherapy_Discus
sio
ncontinuedregardingthe journalonpsycho
therap;
which hadbeenplannedevenbefore PIAPbecamea Section
of
Di
vi
sion12.
andeffortshad begun to develop policyandstructure for thejournalin timef
or
presentation
to
theExecutiveBoard
at
APA for finalapproval.Itshould
be
not
ed
thatthe decision
to
pursueestablishmcnt
of
ajournal
was
based
in
partonthe results
of
aresearchqucstionnaire dealing with IIcritical issues
in
psychotherapyand
setH
to nearly 4500 psychologists
in
APA wholisted psychotherapyas
3n
interest
in
the
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