| AdminHistory | In 1914 The British Psychological Society acquired the British Journal of Psychology (1904-date). Between 1920 and 1955 it was known as the British Journal of Psychology: General Section. It would also include titles and sometimes abstracts of papers given at British Psychological Society General and Sectional Meetings as well as names of BPS officers and members. The British Journal of Psychology Medical Section was for the specialist Medical Section members from 1920 [later British Journal of Medical Psychology, later the Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Theory Research and Practice].
From 1946 The BPS started publishing a Quarterly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 1947-1952, Bulletin of the British Psychological Society 1953 -1987. It became monthly in 1974 and was restricted as a membership publication. It was relaunched as The Psychologist 1988-date, as an inhouse journal. It was proposed in 1974 to have an academic journal 'Psychological Forum' to public abstracts and papers to a wider audience but this was seen as too expensive - instead certain section of the Bulletin such as the appointments memoranda were separated out and circulated to members only. In the early 1990s the BPS press office started producing press releases highlighting research and articles published in the journals.
Other journals were published including the
British Journal of Education Psychology ( and a related monograph series),
British Journal of Medical Psychology,
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology/ British Journal of Clinical Psychology/British Journal of Social Psychology
Journal of Occupational Psychology/ Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
British Journal of Health Psychology
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
British Journal of Statistical Psychology/British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Journal of Neuropsychology
In 1955 the Standing Committee on Publications recommended that each Journal should have its own Journal Committee or Editorial Board.
The BPS also published subsystems (member network) specialist newsletters and bulletins; reports of conferences, working parties, guidance, Annual Reviews of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, policies and books on aspects of psychological practice and thought. |
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