TIME CAPSULE
1883
The first formal psychology research laboratory in the United States was founded on March 8. The trustees of Johns Hopkins University allocated $250 for space and equipment for G. Stanley Hall's use. Interestingly, campus politics led the trustees to prohibit Hall from adopting the title "laboratory" for the facility.
1896
On March 30, the term "psychoanalysis" was first used in a paper by Sigmund Freud, published in French.
1955
A federal commission headed by former president Herbert Hoover reported on March 7 that more than 50 percent of the 1,500,000 hospital beds in the United States were devoted to the care of people with mental illness, making mental illness the "greatest single" U.S. health problem.
1993
The genetic code for Huntington's disease was identified on March 23 by a research team headed by psychologist James Gusella of Massachusetts General Hospital. The team of researchers at six institutions included psychologist Nancy Wexler of Columbia University, who herself is at risk for the disease. For years, Wexler collected tissue samples from a small village in Venezuela where almost every inhabitant carries the gene.Source: APA Historical Database, created and maintained by Warren R. Street, Central Washington University, and published as "A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology" (APA, 1994).
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