From the Letters to the Editor column of the January 2007 Perspectives
What’s in a Subspecialty’s Name?
To the Editor:
I was surprised to learn that psychohistory had been deleted from the list of subspecialties. If I take the subjects that interest my younger colleagues as any indication of where the discipline is headed, it would seem that psychology is making a comeback—albeit pursued differently from how it was pursued a generation ago. Perhaps the subspecialty should be renamed psychological history.
—Judith M. Hughes, University of California at San Diego
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