Psychology in Utrecht

In this chapter we focus on Utrecht University’s new department of psychology in the period before World War II (Sect. 3.1), in the 1930s, and during World War II (Sect. 3.2), as well as how the subfaculty of psychology developed after World War II (Sect. 3.3). We then focus on whether there was one or there were two Utrecht Schools (psychology and criminal justice) (Sects. 3.4 and 3.5). In Sect. 3.6 we concentrate on the psychologists’ Utrecht School, and in Sect. 3.7 we conclude that there was no Utrecht School, and Linschoten was one of its members.