| Description | Bound proceedings of the XIX International Congress of Psychology, held at University College London, 27 July - 2 August 1969 under the auspices of the British Psychological Society and the International Union of Psychological Science.
The organising committee, which first met on November 1966 comprised Professor G C Drew, A Summerfield, D M Nelson, D Legge, R J Audley, D E Broadbent, Sheila Chown, C B Frisby, M Hamilton, Marie Jahoda, R P Kelvin, Grace Rawlings. A Rodger, R W Russell, O L Zangwill. The congress was officially opened by R H S Crossman, Minister of Health at the Royal Festival Hall - it also closed at the Royal Festival Hall with a symposium 'Psychology in the Future' [published as a separate publications see BPS/001/4/02/03/02.
A number of films were shown participants including a series of films of animal behavior , and on child behaviour and archives film of the IX Annual Congress of Psychology held at Yale in 1929.
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| AdminHistory | The first International Congresses of Psychology was held in Paris in 1889, then in London 1892, Munich 1896, Paris 1900, Rome 1905; Geneva 1909, Oxford 1923, Groningen 1926, Yale 1929, Copenhagen 1932, Paris 1937, Edinburgh 1948. After the creation of The International Union of Scientific Psychology IUPSY in 1951 at the X111 in Stockholm they took over the organisation of the congresses, which were sited in Montreal 1954, Brussels 1957, Bonn 1960, Washington 1963, Moscow 1966 and London 1969, Tokyo 1972, Paris 1976, Leipzig 1980, Acapulco 1984, Sydney 1988, Brussel 1992, Montreal 1996, Stockholm 2000, Beijing 2004, Berlin 2008, Cape Town 2012, Yokohama 2016 and Prague 2020. |