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Discusses the history of psychology in Great Britain in the nineteenth century. British-authored undergraduate writings on the topic of psychology; Comparison of the history of psychology with medicine and psychiatry; Problems in the accessibility and storage of the resource materials on psychology; Developments in the history of psychology by mid-1980s; Fundamental problem with the field of history of psychology in Britain; Factors which affect the process behind institutional change and development of the history of psychology in Great Britain.

This paper argues that the present-day disagreements over the right course for sociology and its public role are reflected and paralleled in contemporary historiography of Robert Owen, British social reformer and a self-described social scientist. Historical accounts, written from the perspectives of public sociology, 'pure science' sociology, and anti-Marxism, interpret Owen's historical role in mutually antithetical and self-serving ways. Contrasting the three presentist accounts, I engage in an analysis of 'techniques of presentism'-history-structuring concepts, such as 'disciplinary founder' and 'disciplinary prehistory,' that allow presentist authors to get their effects. Along the way, I elaborate Peter Baehr's classification of sociology's founders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the compilation of the published papers of psychologist Cyril Burt compiled by R. Ttravis. Purpose of the " The Burt Collection"; Accounts on the release of the official biography of Burt by Leslie Hearnshaw; Exclusion of books, chapters in edited books and monographs written by Burt in "The Burt Collection."

This paper explores the founding of psychology as discipline in New Zealand, giving particular emphasis to its connections with psychology in the United Kingdom. Erik Erickson's psychosocial crises provide a convenient metaphor for stages in the development of psychology in New Zealand as it has vascillated between British and North American traditions and as the academic vision of the discipline has accommodated itself to the more recent professional and applied outlook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]