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The University of Denver is the second oldest institution of higher learning in the Rocky Mountain West. Established initially as a private, church-sponsored school in 1864, it closed in 1867 and reopened as a true university in 1880. Among its first offerings was Mental Science also termed Mental Philosophy, both of which relied primarily on the religious orientations of pre-Jamesian American psychology espoused by Thomas Cogswell Upham and Lawrence Perseus Hickok. This single course was restricted to the senior year, taught by the Chancellor of the university who was a Methodist cleric and always associated with a corrective course in Christian Evidences. There was a potential danger in understanding how the mind works.
In 1898, Daniel Edward Phillips who earned his Ph.D. at Clark University was hired as a Professor of Philosophy and Pedagogy. He introduced the ideas of William James and Titchnerian structuralism and developed a program of standard psychology courses. The...
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Spilka, B. (2012). University of Denver, History of Psychology at. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_155
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