University of Limpopo.
Am Psychol. 2014 Nov;69(8):837-47. doi: 10.1037/a0037569.
In this concatenated overview, the development of psychology in South Africa is traced from its origins in the late 19th century to the present. The seminal influences on the science and practice of psychology of the racialized polity and the responses to the prevailing regimen are also explored. The significant events in the patinated layers of psychological discourse and consequent policies in these constrained circumstances are traversed. Despite the nonracial era occasioned by the formation of the Psychological Society of South Africa three months before the advent of democracy under Nelson Mandela in 1994, the profession of psychology remains demographically skewed. Nevertheless, psychology in the current democratic dispensation enjoys a high profile and is actively engaged in ongoing and reflexive self-examination to ensure that it is more accessible and truly serves humanity. If Africa is psychology's last frontier, the critical denouement of the various issues confronting psychology in the southern tip of the African continent will provide a positive growth path that is likely to merit attention beyond its borders.
在这个串联概述中，追溯了南非心理学的发展历程，从 19 世纪末到现在。种族隔离政体对心理学科学和实践的重大影响，以及对当时流行制度的回应，也在本文中进行了探讨。本文还涉及了在这些受限环境下，心理学话语的悠久历史和随之而来的政策中所经历的重大事件。尽管在纳尔逊·曼德拉 1994 年民主时代到来前三个月成立了南非心理学会，迎来了非种族时代，但心理学在人口统计学上仍然存在偏差。尽管如此，在当前的民主环境下，心理学享有很高的知名度，并积极参与持续的反思性自我检查，以确保心理学更易获取，并真正为全人类服务。如果非洲是心理学的最后一个前沿领域，那么非洲大陆南端心理学所面临的各种问题的关键结局，将为其提供一条积极的发展道路，其边界之外的国家也可能会关注这条道路。
