Claudia Fierro
Biographic Data
| ID | 151983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Fierro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Fierro |
| SIGNATURE | FIERRO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7635-7012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the prowl for disciplinary vassals: Neurologists, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists discuss science, technology, and profession at the National Research Council’s Conference on Relations of…
The 1910s were a complex and rapidly changing decade in mental hygiene, marked by institutional innovation, professional development, and the expanding reconceptualization of mental disease and maladjustment. This growth frequently generated friction between practical clinical sciences, particularly psychiatry and consulting clinical psychology. After years of mounting tension, the National Research Council convened a joint conference in 1921 on …
Bridging the gap by microscoping the mind: Mental anthropometry, experimental psychopathology, and the scientific ideal of psychiatry at the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, 1870s–1910s
Drawing on heretofore overlooked archival documents and primary sources, this article reconstructs and contextualizes William O. Krohn’s psychological laboratory at the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Kankakee between 1897 and 1899, the first of its kind to be established within a U.S. asylum. Situated against the backdrop of psychiatry’s public crisis of scientific legitimacy in the 1890s and Kankakee’s own history of political uphea…
Masked, We Advance: Technological Subterfuge, Statistical Instrumentalization, and Professionalization Strategies in Clinical Psychology, 1900s-1930s
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists were locked in ongoing "turf wars" over diagnostic authority and therapeutic jurisdiction, with the former confined to subordinate roles as IQ scorers and the latter retaining exclusive control over interviews and comprehensive mental examinations. Focusing on disciplinary negotiations and boundary work during the interwar period, this article reconstruct…
The Perils of Autobiography: Evidence, Meaning, Reliability, and Context in the Historiographical Canon on Carl Ransom Rogers, 1950s–2020s
This article examines the historical canon on Carl Ransom Rogers (1902–1987) as a case study in the epistemological and methodological shortcomings of ‘insider’ psycho-biographical narratives in the historiography of psychology. Most accounts of Rogers, written by Rogerian practitioners, rely heavily on a limited cluster of biographies and autobiographical recollections treated as transparent self-reports confirming the personal, developmental or…
Those catalytic women teachers: Mary Marvin, Margaret Maguire, and the social history of the psychological clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, 1870–1920
The emergence of clinical psychology as a distinct scholarly field is usually traced to 1896, when Lightner Witmer established the country’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania – an institutional innovation sparked by Witmer’s contacts with Philadelphia teachers Margaret Tilden Maguire (1874–1941) and Mary Eva Marvin (1869–1933). However, the historical record is mostly silent about both teachers’ lives, backgrounds, and …
The Unpleasant Duty of Vain Complaint”: School Building Hygiene, Educational Administration, and the Historical Roots of Late Nineteenth-Century Clinical Discourse in Philadelphia
Although Philadelphia’s nineteenth-century public school system was praised by some contemporaries for its efficient administration, the city’s sudden embrace of clinical discourse and “bottom-up” hygienic initiatives between 1896 and 1898, along with critical reports on poor sanitary conditions by the early 1910s, suggest underlying structural issues. This paper contributes to the material history of education by examining the organizational con…
Saulo De Freitas Araujo (1971-2024)
A supposedly objective thing I'll never use again: Word association and the quest for validity and reliability in emotional adjustment research from Carl Jung to Carl Rogers (1898-1927)
As the first two decades of the 20th century unfolded, clinical psychologists, who had until then been mainly associated with intelligence testing, attempted to implement a specific psychological method-Carl Gustav Jung's (1875-1961) word-association "test"-in individual personality assessments. As one of the early clinical psychologists who attempted to use the method, Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) is conspicuously absent from the historiograph…
How did early North American clinical psychologists get their first personality test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry, and the development of the “Word Association Test” (1898–1909)
Clinical psychology emerged in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century. Although they focused on intelligence tests, starting around 1905 certain clinical psychologists pursued personality assessment through a specific, nonintellectual kind of test: the word association test as devised by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich. The test was a key device in the professi…
Returning to the sources: An interview with Saulo de Freitas Araujo about the book series Clássicos da Psicologia (Classics of Psychology)
In this interview with historian of psychology Saulo de Freitas Araujo, we discuss the aims, challenges, and functions of a new book series in which classic psychological works are translated into Portuguese. The interview highlights the importance of the accessibility of primary source documents to psychology education
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962-1983)
To clarify the historical origins of theoretical and methodological problems faced by Argentinian psychology today, this article describes the philosophical and epistemological ideas held by psychoanalytically oriented professors and transmitted to undergraduate students during the institutionalization and professionalization of psychology at Argentinian universities between 1962 and 1983. Drawing from primary sources such as official publication…
A Case for a Philosophical History of Psychology: An Interview with Saulo de Freitas Araujo at the Centenary of the Death of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920)
A backdrop for psychotherapy”: Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1924–1935)
Carl Rogers' work in clinical psychology and psychotherapy has been as influential as it is vast and varied. However, as a topic of historical inquiry Rogers' approach to clinical psychology is beset by historiographical lacunae. Especially vague have been Rogers' own reflections about his student years (1925-1928) at Columbia University's Teachers College. Rogers claimed that he received the "backdrop" for the development of his approach to psyc…
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)
During the first two decades of the 20th century, the expansion of private foundations and philanthropic initiatives in the United States converged with a comprehensive, nationwide agenda of progressive education and post-war social reconstruction that situated childhood at its core. From 1924 to 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was the main foundation behind the aggressive, systematic funding of the child development movement in Nort…
Psychology qua psychoanalysis in Argentina: Some historical origins of a philosophical problem (1942-1964)
Contemporary Argentinian psychology has a unique characteristic: it is identified with psychoanalysis. Nonpsychoanalytic theories and therapies are difficult to find. In addition, there is an overt antiscientific attitude within many psychology programs. How should this be explained? In this paper, we claim that a philosophical history of psychology can shed new light on the development of Argentinian psychology by showing that early Argentinian …
Rocky Relations: Epistemological History and Psychology Teaching and Education Studies in Argentina
This paper offers a description of the recent past and current state of the field of psy-chology teaching and education studies in Argentina. We describe the theoretical and em-pirical problems addressed by specific researches on the subject, emphasizing two com-plementary set of studies: nationwide studies during the 1990s and more specific, nar-rower studies carried out during the last decade. Our analysis concludes that despite the intrinsic r…
Pluralism and heterogeneity as criticism: Undergraduate history and systems of psychology courses in Argentinian psychology education (1983–2017)
Multiple studies have analyzed the aims, resources, and approaches to undergraduate and graduate history of psychology education in several countries. Argentina is one of the countries with the highest historiographical production in Latin America. However, to date, there are no published studies on the collective debates among professionals, institutions, and associations that were instrumental in the development of the historiography of science…
La Historiografía en la Institucionalización de la Psicología Académica. Estados Unidos, 1890-1989
Los cursos de historia de la Psicología datan de las primeras décadas del siglo pasado. Para comprender las características de los mismos debe reconocerse el particular ambiente intelectual y socio-profesional en que dichas asignaturas proliferaron. Si asumimos una perspectiva social o socio-profesional de la historia de la ciencia psicológica, Estados Unidos cobra rápidamente relieve como la cuna de la Psicología moderna. Considerando esto, este…
Critical Pluralism: History of Science and Debates on Education in Psychology
This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis in historical perspective on the views of Argentine professional psychologists about the history of psychology in psychologists’ curricula. In order to provide data about the teaching of history of psychology in Argentina over the past 25 years, a content analysis was carried out on primary sources relevant to psychology’s teaching in Argentina: researches on the training and education of l…
Predicting Adherence to Medications by Hispanics with Schizophrenia
Casefile data of 100 male and 93female Hispanics with schizophrenia were analyzed to evaluate the impact on the patient's adherence to medication regimen of biodemographic, social support, and treatment variables, and whether the patient's therapist was also Hispanic and spoke Spanish. Results revealed that older and more motivated patients were more likely to adhere to theirmedication. As predicted, those who had greaterfamily support and who we…
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)
During the first two decades of the 20th century, the expansion of private foundations and philanthropic initiatives in the United States converged with a comprehensive, nationwide agenda of progressive education and post-war social reconstruction that situated childhood at its core. From 1924 to 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was the main foundation behind the aggressive, systematic funding of the child development movement in Nort…
Predicting Adherence to Medications by Hispanics with Schizophrenia
Casefile data of 100 male and 93female Hispanics with schizophrenia were analyzed to evaluate the impact on the patient's adherence to medication regimen of biodemographic, social support, and treatment variables, and whether the patient's therapist was also Hispanic and spoke Spanish. Results revealed that older and more motivated patients were more likely to adhere to theirmedication. As predicted, those who had greaterfamily support and who we…
The Unpleasant Duty of Vain Complaint”: School Building Hygiene, Educational Administration, and the Historical Roots of Late Nineteenth-Century Clinical Discourse in Philadelphia
Although Philadelphia’s nineteenth-century public school system was praised by some contemporaries for its efficient administration, the city’s sudden embrace of clinical discourse and “bottom-up” hygienic initiatives between 1896 and 1898, along with critical reports on poor sanitary conditions by the early 1910s, suggest underlying structural issues. This paper contributes to the material history of education by examining the organizational con…
How did early North American clinical psychologists get their first personality test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry, and the development of the “Word Association Test” (1898–1909)
Clinical psychology emerged in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century. Although they focused on intelligence tests, starting around 1905 certain clinical psychologists pursued personality assessment through a specific, nonintellectual kind of test: the word association test as devised by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich. The test was a key device in the professi…
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962-1983)
To clarify the historical origins of theoretical and methodological problems faced by Argentinian psychology today, this article describes the philosophical and epistemological ideas held by psychoanalytically oriented professors and transmitted to undergraduate students during the institutionalization and professionalization of psychology at Argentinian universities between 1962 and 1983. Drawing from primary sources such as official publication…
A backdrop for psychotherapy”: Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1924–1935)
Carl Rogers' work in clinical psychology and psychotherapy has been as influential as it is vast and varied. However, as a topic of historical inquiry Rogers' approach to clinical psychology is beset by historiographical lacunae. Especially vague have been Rogers' own reflections about his student years (1925-1928) at Columbia University's Teachers College. Rogers claimed that he received the "backdrop" for the development of his approach to psyc…
Psychology qua psychoanalysis in Argentina: Some historical origins of a philosophical problem (1942-1964)
Contemporary Argentinian psychology has a unique characteristic: it is identified with psychoanalysis. Nonpsychoanalytic theories and therapies are difficult to find. In addition, there is an overt antiscientific attitude within many psychology programs. How should this be explained? In this paper, we claim that a philosophical history of psychology can shed new light on the development of Argentinian psychology by showing that early Argentinian …
Pluralism and heterogeneity as criticism: Undergraduate history and systems of psychology courses in Argentinian psychology education (1983–2017)
Multiple studies have analyzed the aims, resources, and approaches to undergraduate and graduate history of psychology education in several countries. Argentina is one of the countries with the highest historiographical production in Latin America. However, to date, there are no published studies on the collective debates among professionals, institutions, and associations that were instrumental in the development of the historiography of science…
Predicting Adherence to Medications by Hispanics with Schizophrenia
Casefile data of 100 male and 93female Hispanics with schizophrenia were analyzed to evaluate the impact on the patient's adherence to medication regimen of biodemographic, social support, and treatment variables, and whether the patient's therapist was also Hispanic and spoke Spanish. Results revealed that older and more motivated patients were more likely to adhere to theirmedication. As predicted, those who had greaterfamily support and who we…
Critical Pluralism: History of Science and Debates on Education in Psychology
This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis in historical perspective on the views of Argentine professional psychologists about the history of psychology in psychologists’ curricula. In order to provide data about the teaching of history of psychology in Argentina over the past 25 years, a content analysis was carried out on primary sources relevant to psychology’s teaching in Argentina: researches on the training and education of l…
Pluralism and heterogeneity as criticism: Undergraduate history and systems of psychology courses in Argentinian psychology education (1983–2017)
Multiple studies have analyzed the aims, resources, and approaches to undergraduate and graduate history of psychology education in several countries. Argentina is one of the countries with the highest historiographical production in Latin America. However, to date, there are no published studies on the collective debates among professionals, institutions, and associations that were instrumental in the development of the historiography of science…
La Historiografía en la Institucionalización de la Psicología Académica. Estados Unidos, 1890-1989
Los cursos de historia de la Psicología datan de las primeras décadas del siglo pasado. Para comprender las características de los mismos debe reconocerse el particular ambiente intelectual y socio-profesional en que dichas asignaturas proliferaron. Si asumimos una perspectiva social o socio-profesional de la historia de la ciencia psicológica, Estados Unidos cobra rápidamente relieve como la cuna de la Psicología moderna. Considerando esto, este…
Rocky Relations: Epistemological History and Psychology Teaching and Education Studies in Argentina
This paper offers a description of the recent past and current state of the field of psy-chology teaching and education studies in Argentina. We describe the theoretical and em-pirical problems addressed by specific researches on the subject, emphasizing two com-plementary set of studies: nationwide studies during the 1990s and more specific, nar-rower studies carried out during the last decade. Our analysis concludes that despite the intrinsic r…
A Case for a Philosophical History of Psychology: An Interview with Saulo de Freitas Araujo at the Centenary of the Death of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920)
A backdrop for psychotherapy”: Carl R. Rogers, psychological testing, and the psycho-educational clinic at Columbia University’s Teachers College (1924–1935)
Carl Rogers' work in clinical psychology and psychotherapy has been as influential as it is vast and varied. However, as a topic of historical inquiry Rogers' approach to clinical psychology is beset by historiographical lacunae. Especially vague have been Rogers' own reflections about his student years (1925-1928) at Columbia University's Teachers College. Rogers claimed that he received the "backdrop" for the development of his approach to psyc…
An ‘ingenious system of practical contacts’: Historical origins and development of the Institute of Child Welfare Research at Columbia University's Teachers College (1922–36)
During the first two decades of the 20th century, the expansion of private foundations and philanthropic initiatives in the United States converged with a comprehensive, nationwide agenda of progressive education and post-war social reconstruction that situated childhood at its core. From 1924 to 1928, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was the main foundation behind the aggressive, systematic funding of the child development movement in Nort…
Psychology qua psychoanalysis in Argentina: Some historical origins of a philosophical problem (1942-1964)
Contemporary Argentinian psychology has a unique characteristic: it is identified with psychoanalysis. Nonpsychoanalytic theories and therapies are difficult to find. In addition, there is an overt antiscientific attitude within many psychology programs. How should this be explained? In this paper, we claim that a philosophical history of psychology can shed new light on the development of Argentinian psychology by showing that early Argentinian …
How did early North American clinical psychologists get their first personality test? Carl Gustav Jung, the Zurich School of Psychiatry, and the development of the “Word Association Test” (1898–1909)
Clinical psychology emerged in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century. Although they focused on intelligence tests, starting around 1905 certain clinical psychologists pursued personality assessment through a specific, nonintellectual kind of test: the word association test as devised by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich. The test was a key device in the professi…
Returning to the sources: An interview with Saulo de Freitas Araujo about the book series Clássicos da Psicologia (Classics of Psychology)
In this interview with historian of psychology Saulo de Freitas Araujo, we discuss the aims, challenges, and functions of a new book series in which classic psychological works are translated into Portuguese. The interview highlights the importance of the accessibility of primary source documents to psychology education
Psychoanalysizing science itself: Psychoanalysis, philosophy of science and scientific research in the institutionalization of Argentinian psychology (1962-1983)
To clarify the historical origins of theoretical and methodological problems faced by Argentinian psychology today, this article describes the philosophical and epistemological ideas held by psychoanalytically oriented professors and transmitted to undergraduate students during the institutionalization and professionalization of psychology at Argentinian universities between 1962 and 1983. Drawing from primary sources such as official publication…
A supposedly objective thing I'll never use again: Word association and the quest for validity and reliability in emotional adjustment research from Carl Jung to Carl Rogers (1898-1927)
As the first two decades of the 20th century unfolded, clinical psychologists, who had until then been mainly associated with intelligence testing, attempted to implement a specific psychological method-Carl Gustav Jung's (1875-1961) word-association "test"-in individual personality assessments. As one of the early clinical psychologists who attempted to use the method, Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987) is conspicuously absent from the historiograph…
Those catalytic women teachers: Mary Marvin, Margaret Maguire, and the social history of the psychological clinic of the University of Pennsylvania, 1870–1920
The emergence of clinical psychology as a distinct scholarly field is usually traced to 1896, when Lightner Witmer established the country’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania – an institutional innovation sparked by Witmer’s contacts with Philadelphia teachers Margaret Tilden Maguire (1874–1941) and Mary Eva Marvin (1869–1933). However, the historical record is mostly silent about both teachers’ lives, backgrounds, and …
The Unpleasant Duty of Vain Complaint”: School Building Hygiene, Educational Administration, and the Historical Roots of Late Nineteenth-Century Clinical Discourse in Philadelphia
Although Philadelphia’s nineteenth-century public school system was praised by some contemporaries for its efficient administration, the city’s sudden embrace of clinical discourse and “bottom-up” hygienic initiatives between 1896 and 1898, along with critical reports on poor sanitary conditions by the early 1910s, suggest underlying structural issues. This paper contributes to the material history of education by examining the organizational con…
Saulo De Freitas Araujo (1971-2024)
On the prowl for disciplinary vassals: Neurologists, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists discuss science, technology, and profession at the National Research Council’s Conference on Relations of…
The 1910s were a complex and rapidly changing decade in mental hygiene, marked by institutional innovation, professional development, and the expanding reconceptualization of mental disease and maladjustment. This growth frequently generated friction between practical clinical sciences, particularly psychiatry and consulting clinical psychology. After years of mounting tension, the National Research Council convened a joint conference in 1921 on …
Bridging the gap by microscoping the mind: Mental anthropometry, experimental psychopathology, and the scientific ideal of psychiatry at the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane, 1870s–1910s
Drawing on heretofore overlooked archival documents and primary sources, this article reconstructs and contextualizes William O. Krohn’s psychological laboratory at the Eastern Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Kankakee between 1897 and 1899, the first of its kind to be established within a U.S. asylum. Situated against the backdrop of psychiatry’s public crisis of scientific legitimacy in the 1890s and Kankakee’s own history of political uphea…
Masked, We Advance: Technological Subterfuge, Statistical Instrumentalization, and Professionalization Strategies in Clinical Psychology, 1900s-1930s
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists were locked in ongoing "turf wars" over diagnostic authority and therapeutic jurisdiction, with the former confined to subordinate roles as IQ scorers and the latter retaining exclusive control over interviews and comprehensive mental examinations. Focusing on disciplinary negotiations and boundary work during the interwar period, this article reconstruct…
The Perils of Autobiography: Evidence, Meaning, Reliability, and Context in the Historiographical Canon on Carl Ransom Rogers, 1950s–2020s
This article examines the historical canon on Carl Ransom Rogers (1902–1987) as a case study in the epistemological and methodological shortcomings of ‘insider’ psycho-biographical narratives in the historiography of psychology. Most accounts of Rogers, written by Rogerian practitioners, rely heavily on a limited cluster of biographies and autobiographical recollections treated as transparent self-reports confirming the personal, developmental or…
Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (17 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology Research and Bibliometrics (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (6 works) · History of psychology (6 works)