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The Origins of Psychology in Italy: Themes and Authors That Emerge through a Content Analysis of the Rivista di Filosofia Scientifica (2012)

Bartolucci, Chiara (Author)
Lombardo, Giovanni Pietro (Author)

History of Psychology
Volume: 15, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 247-262

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Psychology Positivism Discipline formation Phrenology Periodicals; serials 19th century 20th century Italy Ferri, Enrico Vignoli, Tito Sergi, Giuseppe Buccola, Gabriele Morselli, Enrico Tanzi, Eugenio

This article examines the scientific-cultural context of the second half of the 1800s, during which psychological science emerged in Italy. The article explores the contribution made by the emergence of the primary research traditions of that period, namely, physiological anthropology and phreniatry, by means of a methodology that combines content analysis with a classical historiographical study of the period. Themes and authors deriving from the various disciplines in the human and natural sciences were identified through a content analysis of the Rivista di Filosofia Scientifica [Journal of Scientific Philosophy], a periodical that is representative of Italian positivism. The analysis highlights the epistemological perspective held by scholars who, distancing themselves from the mechanistic reductionism of the proponents of positivism, integrated a naturalistic and evolutionary conceptualization with the neo-Kantian critique. A clearly delineated naturalistic and differential perspective of scientific research that brought about the birth of psychology as an experimental discipline in Italy in the 1900s emerges from the analysis, including psychology and psychopathology as studied by the phreniatrists Gabriele Buccola, Enrico Morselli, and Eugenio Tanzi; Tito Vignoli and Giuseppe Sergi's work in comparative anthropology; Giulio Fano's approach and contribution to physiology; and Enrico Ferri's contribution to criminology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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