After the 1st Argentine Congress of Psychology held in Tucumán in 1954, the first undergraduated programs of Psychology in Argentina were organized. The National University of Cuyo created such a program in San Luis, in 1958. This work analyses the first undergraduated program of Psychology with the aim of researching the possible influence of the neoescholastic philosophy, and specially neothomism ¿one of its main trends- in the background of the teachers of the first psychologists graduated at the Faculty of Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. The Neoscholastic, and Neothomism, had been born as european philosophical schools by the end of the XIXth century, significantly growing up by the begining of the XXth. In Argentina, it was receptioned at the same age, mainly spreading out its influence in the 30¿s and 40¿s, when the works of outstanding figures such as Maritain ¿who came to Argentina several times and published at many national journals-, or Agostino Gemelli, who took part of the First National Congress of Philosophy, and the First Argentine Congress of Psychology. To analyse the present program of studies we have selected the philosophical subjects (Introduction to Psychology, Logic and Theory of Knowledge, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Ethics) and the geneneral subjects on psychology (Psychology I and Psychology II) with the asumption that they set the discipline basis and let us know the paradigms in which Psychology was conceived. We made a sociobibliometrical study of the programs of studies of each of these subjects, by analyzing the references used. We also analyzed the teachers profile by their curriculum vitae, and made use of oral sources when it was possible for us to find out. We confirmed that the neoscholastic philosophy had such as an important influence to the background of the teachers involeved in this first program of Psychology, as we initialy hipothesized.
After the 1st Argentine Congress of Psychology held in Tucumán in 1954, the first undergraduated programs of Psychology in Argentina were organized. The National University of Cuyo created such a program in San Luis, in 1958. This work analyses the first undergraduated program of Psychology with the aim of researching the possible influence of the neoescholastic philosophy, and specially neothomism ¿one of its main trends- in the background of the teachers of the first psychologists graduated at the Faculty of Sciences of the National University of Cuyo. The Neoscholastic, and Neothomism, had been born as european philosophical schools by the end of the XIXth century, significantly growing up by the begining of the XXth. In Argentina, it was receptioned at the same age, mainly spreading out its influence in the 30¿s and 40¿s, when the works of outstanding figures such as Maritain ¿who came to Argentina several times and published at many national journals-, or Agostino Gemelli, who took part of the First National Congress of Philosophy, and the First Argentine Congress of Psychology. To analyse the present program of studies we have selected the philosophical subjects (Introduction to Psychology, Logic and Theory of Knowledge, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Ethics) and the geneneral subjects on psychology (Psychology I and Psychology II) with the asumption that they set the discipline basis and let us know the paradigms in which Psychology was conceived. We made a sociobibliometrical study of the programs of studies of each of these subjects, by analyzing the references used. We also analyzed the teachers profile by their curriculum vitae, and made use of oral sources when it was possible for us to find out. We confirmed that the neoscholastic philosophy had such as an important influence to the background of the teachers involeved in this first program of Psychology, as we initialy hipothesized.
