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The history of psychology has been traced through the behavior of early civilizations covering a span of 4,000 years (Kimble & Schlesinger, 1985a,Kimble & Schlesinger, 1985b). The history of modern scientific psychology is relatively brief, encompassing a little more than a century. Nevertheless, Pion (in press) noted that, since 1977, the demand for doctoral psychologists, as reflected by employment figures, has actually increased more rapidly than the employment of all other doctoral scientists. Further, Pion cited National Science Foundation statistics indicating that, in 1986, 94% of doctoral psychologists were actually working in psychology. This figure represents a higher percentage than in any other scientific field.
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Sweet, J.J., Rozensky, R.H., Tovian, S.M. (1991). Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. In: Sweet, J.J., Rozensky, R.H., Tovian, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3792-2_1
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