History of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

The problems of society reflected in the psychological way of thinking can be captured in the publications of thinkers working at the Charles University in Prague since its foundation in the 14th century. The authors consider the second half of the 19th century to be the period of the establishment of scientific psychology as an independent discipline. At the Charles University in Prague, the founding personalities taught at the Faculties of Philosophy and Medicine. The psychological seminar at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University was founded in 1921 and was led by Frantisek Krejci. After World War II, the psychological seminar and a psychological institute coexisted at the Faculty of Arts side by side. In 1950, the two workplaces were merged and in 1951, a separate department of psychology was established. At the time of normalization, the Prague department was divided into four departments in 1975, following the example of the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University. In 1980, the department was reunited and its structure is basically preserved to this day.