Collins, Alan (2012) England. In: The Oxford Handbook of the
History of Psychology: Global Perspectives. Oxford University
Press, Oxford, pp. 182-210. ISBN 9780195366556Full text not
available from this repository. The domains of academic inquiry,
management of practical problems, and popular engagement with
psychological ideas have each contributed to the establishment
of psychology in England. The mid-nineteenth century saw the
emergence of a set of conditions that allowed psychology as a
separate discipline and practice to emerge. This chapter
examines those conditions before considering the moves to
institutionalisation of psychology in the early twentieth
century. However, even by then psychology’s presence in England
was precarious and it was not until the years between the two
World Wars that it gained a more established position in
universities, in places such as schools and factories, and in
the popular imagination. The chapter examines how this was
achieved and concludes with a brief review of the c