TEN YEARS OF ITALIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY: A Field in Progress Glauco Ceccarelli University of Urbino Guido Cimino and Renato Foschi “Sapienza” University of Rome This article briefly outlines a picture of the activities and research conducted in Italy on the history of psychology during the last 10 years, focusing its attention on institutions, scholars, conferences, archives, journals, and so forth. At the dawn of the 21st century, the tradition of historical-psychological studies that developed in the last quarter of the 20th century has led to a renewed situation in teaching organization and research, with the emergence of several groups, especially at the universities of Rome “Sapienza,” Bari, Milan-Bicocca, and Urbino, and of a second generation of young historians increasingly engaged on an international level. After a general survey conducted with historiometric method on the principal areas of research cultivated and on the themes dealt with, we mention a change that has occurred in the historiographical approach, a transition from a historiography addressed prevalently to the “history of ideas” to one that, pursuing the approach of a new and critical “multifactorial” history, proves to be more attentive to the social and institutional history, in correspondence with established international trends. Keywords: Italian historiography of psychology, historiometry, old history, new history, multifactorial history An article published in this same journal in 2003 traced the itinerary of the historiography of psychology in Italy from the 1970s up to the threshold of the 21st century (Cimino & Dazzi, 2003). In that essay the authors demonstrated how the Italian studies on the history of psychology had in the 1970s acquired a definite consistency along with a certain autonomy and continuity, impelled by the incipient degree courses in psychology activated in the universities of Rome and Padua, and thanks to the initiatives of the Domus Galilaeana of Pisa and to the contributions of several “pioneers” such as Paolo Bozzi (1930 –2003), Vincenzo Cappelletti, Nino Dazzi, Paolo Legrenzi, and Dario Romano. In the 1980s then—as the authors reconstruct—the historical research in- creased and became particularly prominent at the University of Bologna through the activity of Giuseppe Mucciarelli (1939 –2001), who organized various con- ferences, published volumes on the history of psychology, and founded the Glauco Ceccarelli, Institute of Psychology “Luigi Meschieri,” University of Urbino (Italy); Guido Cimino, Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy); and Renato Foschi, Department of Clinical and Dynamic Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy). This text has been translated in collaboration with Barbara A. Olson. The authors are listed in alphabetical order. We list in the References only some of the more significant works on the history of psychology written in the last ten years. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Guido Cimino, Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Roma (Italy). E-mail: guido.cimino@uniroma1.it History of Psychology 2010, Vol. 13, No. 3, 215–249 © 2010 American Psychological Association 1093-4510/10/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0020093 215