Department of Social Relations, Harvard University
1946 - 1972
The 1946 reorganization of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences left experimental psychology alone in the Department of Psychology while social, developmental and personality (including clinical) combined with sociology and social anthropology to form the Department of Social Relations.
That division persisted for twenty-five years, during which time (1967) the training program in clinical psychology was abandoned. The demise of Social Relations as a separate entity was heralded by the decision of the sociologists to withdraw into their own Department of Sociology in 1970. Shortly thereafter (1972) the branches of psychology recombined as the Department of Psychology and Social Relations, soon after which the social anthropologists retreated to their (never abandoned) association with the Anthropology Department. The circle was completed in the spring of 1986 when, just fifty years after an independent department under that name first appeared at Harvard, the name was shortened and the present Department of Psychology emerged.
That division persisted for twenty-five years, during which time (1967) the training program in clinical psychology was abandoned. The demise of Social Relations as a separate entity was heralded by the decision of the sociologists to withdraw into their own Department of Sociology in 1970. Shortly thereafter (1972) the branches of psychology recombined as the Department of Psychology and Social Relations, soon after which the social anthropologists retreated to their (never abandoned) association with the Anthropology Department. The circle was completed in the spring of 1986 when, just fifty years after an independent department under that name first appeared at Harvard, the name was shortened and the present Department of Psychology emerged.
"About the Department," Department of Psychology, Harvard University, http://www.isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k3007&pageid=icb.page19708 (accessed 09/10/2014)