ABSTRACT
In the first decades of the 19th century, psychology was taught under such titles as “intellectual philosophy” and “mental philosophy” in North American colleges and universities. The first textbook to use the term “psychology” in its title is usually considered to be the book by Rauch (1840; Fay, 1939; Roback, 1952a), although Caleb Henry translated Victor Cousin’s (1834) textbook as Elements of Psychology (Rieber, 1980). “Psychology” did not, however, become a generally accepted name for the discipline until the last decade of the 19th century. Before that, textbooks in intellectual or mental philosophy were the basis for the study of the mind. The first textbook in intellectual philosophy written specifically for undergraduate students was published in the second decade of the 19th century by Thomas C.Upham (Upham, 1827). Upham’s book initiated the era of textbooks in mental philosophy by American academic authors almost three decades before other textbooks appeared (Evans, 1984), and it contained the substance of “a truly indigenous American system of psychology” (Rieber, 1980, p. 104).
