[Metamorphosis of psychology between 1860 and 1989 and their reflections in the Leipzig, Berlin and Halle academies].

Abstract

The study discusses the approach to psychology and psychological topics in three scientific academies, the Saxon Society of Sciences, the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences. Four different uses of the academies emerge: academies as a scene of transdisciplinary exchange and emergence of new ideas, as a location for the presentation of normal scientific research, as an arena of proclamations in science policy, and as a reputation generating scene for a new, arising science-based profession and its associated scientific discipline.