The British Psychological Society (BPS) is a

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for

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s and

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in the United Kingdom.

History

It was founded on 24 October 1901 at

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(UCL) as ''The Psychological Society'', the organisation initially admitted only recognised teachers in the field of psychology. The ten founder members were: *

Robert Armstrong-Jones Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, (born Robert Jones; 2 December 1857 – 30 January 1943) was a Welsh physician and psychiatrist. Biography He was born in Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarvonshire, the son of Thomas Jones, a Congregational minister and s ...

Sophie Bryant Sophie Willock Bryant (15 February 1850, Sandymount, Dublin, – 14 August 1922, Chamonix, France) was an Anglo-Irish mathematician, educator, feminist and activist. She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; one of the first to serve ...

* W. R. Boyce Gibson * Frank Noel Hales * William McDougall *

Frederick Walker Mott Sir Frederick Walker Mott (23 October 1853 in Brighton, Sussex – 8 June 1926 in Birmingham, Warwickshire) was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Britain. He is noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to menta ...

* W. H. R. Rivers *

Alexander Faulkner Shand Alexander Faulkner Shand FBA (20 May 1858 – 6 January 1936) was an English writer and barrister. Through his son Philip, he is the patrilineal great-grandfather of Queen Camilla. Life Alexander Faulkner Shand was born in Bayswater, London ...

* William George Smith *

James Sully James Sully (3 March 1842 – 1 November 1923) was an English psychologist, philosopher and writer. Biography James Sully was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, the son of J. W. Sully, a liberal Baptist merchant and ship-owner. He was educated ...

Its current name of ''The British Psychological Society'' was taken in 1906 to avoid confusion with another group named ''The Psychological Society''. Under the guidance of Charles Myers, membership was opened up to members of the medical profession in 1919. In 1941 the society was incorporated. In 1965 it was a granted a

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Organisation

The Society is both a learned and a professional body. As such it provides support and advice on research and practice issues. It is also a

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which imposes certain constraints on what it can and cannot do. For example, it cannot campaign on issues which are seen as party political. The BPS is not the statutory regulation body for Practitioner Psychologists in the UK which is the

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. The Society has a large number of specialist and regional branches throughout the United Kingdom. It holds its Annual Conference, usually in May, in a different town or city each year. In addition, each of the sub-sections hold their own conferences and there is also a range of specialist meetings convened to consider relevant issues. The Society is also a publishing body publishing a range of specialist journals, books and reports.

Membership grades and post-nominals

In 2019 the BPS had 60,604 members and subscribers, in all fields of psychology, 20,243 of whom were Chartered Members. There are a number of grades of members: * Members ** ''Student member'' (no post-nominal): The grade for students of psychology. ** ''Graduate Member'' (GMBPsS): Awarded to graduates of an undergraduate degree accredited by the society, or have completed an accredited conversion course. ** ''Full Member'' (FMBPsS): awarded to those with qualification in psychology and working in the field of psychology ** ''Associate Member'' (AMBPsS): awarded to wellbeing practitioners * Fellows ** ''Associate Fellow'' (AFBPsS): Associate Fellowship may be awarded to nominees who have satisfied one of the following conditions since first becoming eligible for graduate membership: : i) achieved eligibility for full membership of one of the society's divisions and been successfully engaged in the professional application of a specialised knowledge of psychology for an aggregate of at least two calendar years full-time (or its part-time equivalent); or : ii) possess a research qualification in psychology and been engaged in the application, discovery, development or dissemination of psychological knowledge or practice for an aggregate of at least four years full time (or its part time equivalent); or : iii) published psychological works or exercised specialised psychological knowledge of a standard not less than in 1 or 2 above. ** ''Fellow'' (FBPsS): Fellowship may be awarded to nominees who have made an outstanding contribution to psychology (see :Fellows of the British Psychological Society) by satisfying the following criteria: : i) been engaged in work of a psychological nature (other than undergraduate training) for a total period of at least 10 years; and : ii) possess an advanced knowledge of psychology in at least one of its fields; and : iii) made an outstanding contribution to the advancement or dissemination of psychological knowledge or practice either by your own research, teaching, publications or public service, or by organising and developing the work of others. ** ''Honorary Fellow'' (HonFBPsS): Honorary Fellowship is awarded for distinguished service in the field of psychology.

Professional qualifications

*''CPsychol'': ''Chartered Psychologist'' - Following the receipt of a

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in 1965, the society became the keeper of the Register of Chartered Psychologists. The register was the means by which the Society could regulate the professional practice of psychology. Regulation included the awarding of practising certificates and the conduct of disciplinary proceedings. The register ceased to be when statutory regulation of psychologists began on 1 July 2009. The profession is now regulated by the

. A member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) who has achieved chartered status has the right to the letters "CPsychol" after his or her name. *''CSci'': ''

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'' - The Society is licensed by the

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for the registration of

s. *''EuroPsy'': ''European Psychologist'' - The Society is a member of the

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(EFPA), and can award this designation to Chartered Psychologists.

Response to the Cass Review

The

Cass Review The Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People (commonly, the Cass Review) was commissioned in 2020 by NHS England and NHS Improvement and led by Hilary Cass, a retired consultant paediatrician and the former p ...

was published in April 2024, as an independent review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People, having been commissioned in 2020 by NHS England and NHS Improvement. It found, regarding medical interventions, a "lack of high-quality evidence", and it made a large number of recommendations, including those in the psychological area relevant to the BPS, including social transition, and conflicting clinical views between 'affirming care' versus 'exploratory care'. In June 2024 the BPS issued an update to their "Guidelines for Psychologists Working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity". An open letter criticising the BPS for not referring to the Cass Review in these guidelines was sent on 14 August to Professor Tony Lavender, Chair of the BPS Practice Board, by Pat Harvey, David Pilgrim and Peter Harvey, all BPS members and clinical psychologists. They state that the revised BPS guidelines: "represent an active barrier to much needed change in philosophy and practice for psychologists working in re-formed Gender Services in the immediate future". However, the BPS has clarified that its updated guidelines did not refer to the Cass Review because these relate to adults, not children and young people. The BPS made this point on its website:

The purpose of this interim review was to assess the content in the guidance and update where necessary and appropriate. We know that the area of U18s and gender incongruence is a challenging and often highly politically charged one, which is why we have begun recruitment for the Task and Finish Group. We estimate this work will take approximately 18 months.

Presidents

Honorary members and fellows

Honorary members

The following persons have been honorary members of the society: *1904

John Hughlings Jackson John Hughlings Jackson (4 April 1835 – 7 October 1911) was an English neurologist. He is best known for his research on epilepsy. Biography He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest son of Sa ...

*1905

Harald Høffding Harald Høffding (11 March 1843 – 2 July 1931) was a Danish philosopher and theologian. Life Born Høffding was born in Copenhagen, the son of businessman Niels Frederik Høffding and Martha Høffding (née Jhellerup). The family lived at the ...

Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of behavioural genetics. Galton produced over 340 papers and b ...

William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, he is considered to be one of the leading thinkers of the late 19th c ...

Georg Elias Müller Georg Elias Müller (20 July 185023 December 1934) was a significant early German experimental psychologist who is credited with the theory of retroactive interference. Biography Early life Georg Elias Müller was born in Grimma, Saxony on 20 ...

Théodule Armand Ribot Théodule or Theodule is the French form of the given name Theodulus. It may refer to: *Nicolas Anne Théodule Changarnier (1793–1877), French general, born at Autun *Théodule Devéria (died 1871), prominent French egyptologist who lived in the ...

Carl Stumpf Carl Stumpf (; 21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher, psychologist and musicologist. He is noted for founding the Berlin School of experimental psychology. He studied with Franz Brentano at the University of Würzburg be ...

*1910

*1911

Oswald Külpe Theodor Oswald Rudolph Külpe (; 3 August 1862 – 30 December 1915) was a German structural psychologist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Külpe, who is less well-known than his German mentor, Wilhelm Wundt, revolutionized experimental p ...

*1912

Franz Brentano Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (; ; 16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist. His 1874 '' Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint'', considered his magnum opus, is credited with having reintrod ...

, James Ward *1926

Edward Claparède Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-S ...

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...

Gerardus Heymans Gerardus Heymans (; 17 April 1857 – 18 February 1930) was a Dutch philosopher and psychologist.Hubbeling, H. G. (2013). Gerardus Heijmans (1857–1930). In ''Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.'' https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-200 ...

Pierre Janet Pierre Marie Félix Janet (; ; 30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, physician, philosopher, and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James ...

Henri Piéron Louis Charles Henri Piéron (; 18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a French psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavio ...

Edward Lee Thorndike Edward Lee Thorndike ( – ) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to his " theory of connectionism" and helped la ...

, Edward Bradford Titchener, Hendrik Zwaardemaker *1927 Baron Albert Eduard Michotte van den Berck *1928

Mary Whiton Calkins Mary Whiton Calkins (; 30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self. In 1903, Calkins was the twelfth in a listing of fifty psychologists w ...

*1932

James Rowland Angell James Rowland Angell (; May 8, 1869 – March 4, 1949) was an American psychologist and educator who served as the 16th President of Yale University between 1921 and 1937. His father, James Burrill Angell (1829–1916), was president of the Uni ...

James McKeen Cattell James McKeen Cattell (May 25, 1860 – January 20, 1944) was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and pub ...

Sante de Sanctis Sante De Sanctis (7 February 1862 – 20 February 1935) was an Italian physician, psychologist, and psychiatrist. He is considered one of the founders of the Italian psychology and pediatric psychiatry. Life Sante De Sanctis was born on 7 Fe ...

, William Stern *1934

Havelock Ellis Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, Progressivism, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on h ...

Ernest Jones Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...

Felix Krueger Felix Krueger (or Krüger) (10 August 1874 in Posen – 25 February 1948 in Basel) was a German psychologist and philosopher. He was a student of Wilhelm Wundt (who is regarded as the father of psychology). From 1912 to 1913, Krueger was an excha ...

, William McDougall,

Conwy Lloyd Morgan Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS (6 February 1852 – 6 March 1936) was a British ethologist and psychologist. He is remembered for his theory of emergent evolution, and for the experimental approach to animal psychology now known as Morgan's Canon, a ...

Charles Samuel Myers Charles Samuel Myers, CBE, FRS (13 March 1873 – 12 October 1946) was an English physician who worked as a psychologist. Although he did not invent the term, his first academic paper, published by ''The Lancet'' in 1915, concerned ''shell sh ...

Charles Edward Spearman Charles Edward Spearman, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945) was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. He ...

, George Frederick William Stout *1937

Samuel Alexander Samuel Alexander (6 January 1859 – 13 September 1938) was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college. He is now best known as an advocate of emergentism in biology. Early life He was b ...

Henry Head Sir Henry Head, FRS (4 August 1861 – 8 October 1940) was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatri ...

Charles Scott Sherrington Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiology, neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a ...

*1940

Georges Dumas Georges Dumas (6 March 1866 – 12 February 1946, Lédignan) was a French medical doctor and psychologist. Dumas was a student of Théodule-Armand Ribot. His main work is '' The Treatise of Psychology'' (1923–1924, ''Le Traité de Psychologie' ...

Beatrice Edgell Beatrice Edgell (26 October 1871 – 10 August 1948) was a British psychologist, researcher and university teacher. She taught at Bedford College in the University of London from 1897 to 1933. She was the first British woman to earn a PhD in psyc ...

Kurt Koffka Kurt Koffka (; March 12, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor. He was born and educated in Berlin, Germany; he died in Northampton, Massachusetts, from coronary thrombosis. He was influenced by his maternal unc ...

Carl Emil Seashore Carl Emil Seashore, born Sjöstrand (January 28, 1866 – October 16, 1949) was a prominent American psychologist and educator. He was the author of numerous books and articles principally regarding the fields of speech–language pathology, musi ...

In 1946 all surviving honorary members were made honorary fellows.

Honorary fellows

The following persons are or have been honorary fellows of the society:

Society publications

Journals

The BPS publishes 11 journals: * ''

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'' * ''

British Journal of Developmental Psychology ''British Journal of Developmental Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. The journal was established in 1983. The journal covers developmental psycho ...

'' * ''

British Journal of Educational Psychology ''British Journal of Educational Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. It was established in 1931. The journal preceded by the Journal of Experimenta ...

'' * ''

British Journal of Health Psychology The ''British Journal of Health Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering health psychology. It was established in 1996, when it was split off from the existing '' British Journal of Clinical Psychology''. It is publish ...

'' * ''

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology The ''British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology'' is a British scientific journal founded in 1947. It covers the fields of psychology, statistics, and mathematical psychology. It was established as the ''British Journal of Psychol ...

'' * ''

British Journal of Psychology The ''British Journal of Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed psychology journal. It was established in 1904 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. The editor-in-chief is Stefan R. Schweinberger ...

'' * ''

British Journal of Social Psychology The ''British Journal of Social Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. It publishes original papers on subjects like social cognition, attitudes, group proces ...

'' * '' Journal of Neuropsychology'' * ''

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology The ''Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the British Psychological Society. It covers all aspects of Occupational psychology, occupationa ...

'' * '' Legal and Criminological Psychology'' * '' Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice'' * ''Counselling Psychology Review'' Special Group in Coaching Psychology publications: * ''International Coaching Psychology Review'' * ''The Coaching Psychologist''

The Psychologist

The Psychologist is a members' monthly magazine that has been published since 1988, superseding the BPS Bulletin.

The Research Digest

Since 2003 the BPS has published reports on new psychology research in the form of a free fortnightly email, and since 2005, also in the form of an online blog – both are referred to as the BPS Research Digest. As of 2014, the BPS states that the email has over 32,000 subscribers and the Digest blog attracts hundreds of thousands of page views a month. In 2010 the Research Digest blog won "best psychology blog" in the inaugural Research Blogging Awards. The Research Digest has been written and edited by psychologist Christian Jarrett since its inceptio
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Books

The Society publishes a series of textbooks in collaboration with

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. These cover most of the core areas of psychology.

Member networks: Sections, divisions, branches and groups

The British Psychological Society currently has ten divisions and nineteen sections. Divisions and sections differ in that the former are open to practitioners in a certain field of psychology, so professional and qualified psychologists only will be entitled to full membership of a division, whereas the latter are interest groups comprising members of the BPS who are interested in a particular academic aspect of psychology.

Divisions

Sections

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Sections
currently include: Note: The term 'division' in the

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does not have the same meaning as it does in the British Psychological Society, coming closer to what the British Psychological Society refers to as 'sections'. Branches are for members in the same geographical region.

Special groups

BPS currently has the following special groups to provide a forum for members working in particular specialist fields, with a particular focus on training, practice, and professional development

Regional Branches

The Society also organises regional branches throughout the United Kingdom. These include the following branches: * East Midlands Branch * East of England Branch * London and Home Counties Branch * North East of England Branch * North West of England Branch * Northern Ireland Branch * Scottish Branch * South West of England Branch * Welsh Branch * Wessex Branch * West Midlands Branch

Statutory regulation

BPS has been concerned with the question of statutory registration of psychologists since the 1930s. It received its charter in 1965 and an amendment in 1987 which allowed it to maintain a register of psychologists. The UK government announced its intention to widen statutory regulation, to include ''inter alia'' psychologists, following a number of scandals arising in the 1990s in the

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field. The BPS was in favour of statutory regulation, but opposed the proposed regulator, the

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(HPC), preferring the idea of a new Psychological Professions Council which would map quite closely onto its own responsibilities. The government resisted this, however, and in June 2009, under the Health Care and Associated Professions (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order, regulation of most of the psychology professions passed to the HCPC, the renamed

Society offices

The Society's main office is currently in

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in the United Kingdom. According to BPS HR department, as of April 2019 there were 113 staff members at the Leicester office, 9 in London. There are also smaller regional offices in

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. The archives are deposited at the

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in the

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Logo and YouTube

The British Psychological Society's logo is an image of the Greek mythical figure

Psyche Psyche (''Psyché'' in French) is the Greek term for "soul" ( ψυχή). Psyche or La Psyché may also refer to: Psychology * Psyche (psychology), the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious * ''Psyche'', an 1846 book about the unc ...

, personification of the soul, holding an

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. The use of her image is a reference to the origins of the word

. The lamp symbolises learning and is also a reference to the story of Psyche.

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was in love with Psyche and would visit her at night, but had forbidden her from finding out his identity. She was persuaded by her jealous sisters to discover his identity by holding a lamp to his face as he slept. Psyche accidentally burnt him with oil from the lamp, and he awoke and flew away. The Society has its own

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channel.

References

External links

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History

Organisation

Membership grades and post-nominals

Professional qualifications

Response to the Cass Review

Presidents

Honorary members and fellows

Honorary members

Honorary fellows

Society publications

Journals

The Psychologist

The Research Digest

Books

Member networks: Sections, divisions, branches and groups

Divisions

Sections

Special groups

Regional Branches

Statutory regulation

Society offices

Logo and YouTube

See also

References

External links