Psychology in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia

Abstract

The developmental history of psychology in Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, is presented. In the initial phase, developmental, educational, and clinical psychology developed in Serbia. Establishment of Psychological Area (a sub-department of philosophy) in 1927, enhanced practices of psychoanalysis. Psychological Area's head, Stevanovic, applied Wundt's theory to the study of concept development and researched the structure of intelligence. He published the Belgrade standardization of the Binet in 1930, which supported his views for environmental causes of individual differences via urban/rural parallel norms. The development of Bosnian psychology started in the 1990s, with the treatment of acutely traumatized refugees. Bosnian scientific research started to practice psychology to meet consequences of war. Ramiro Bujas and his son played key role in the development of psychology of Croatia.