Robert John Bartlett
{{Short description|British psychologist}}
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Robert John Bartlett (1879–1980) was a British psychologist.
Career
Bartlett was born in 1879. In 1921, he obtained an MSc Psychology as an external student of the University of London through courses taken at King's College and Bedford College. He was also awarded an ARCSc (Associate of the Royal College of Science), an undergraduate award from the former Royal College of Science.{{cite web |title=Master of Science: Honours and Higher Degrees: External Students |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-university-graduates/235-237#h3-0002 |website=British History Online |accessdate=6 June 2020}} He originally trained in chemistry.{{cite web |title=History of Psychology Centre: Robert J Bartlett - Biographical Material |url=https://archives.bps.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=KENNA%2f1%2f4%2f2&pos=37 |website=British Psychological Society |accessdate=6 June 2020}}
From 1919, he was Assistant Director and then, from 1921, Director of the Psychological Department at Bethlem Hospital until the NHS took over. He was also Lecturer in Normal Psychology to nurses at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London.{{cite web |title=History of Psychology Centre: Bartlett, Robert J (1879-1980) - interview transcripts |url=https://archives.bps.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=AUD%2f001%2f46%2f01&pos=9 |website=British Psychological Society |accessdate=6 June 2020}}
He was elected President of the British Psychological Society in 1947.{{cite web |title=Founders, Fellows, Presidents, and Members |url=https://www.bps.org.uk/about-us/history-psychology/founders-fellows-presidents-members |website=British Psychological Society |accessdate=6 June 2020}} He concluded his Presidential Address to the Society with the words: "Psychology is now a vast subject split up into many different sections, each using its own jargon, knowing very little of what is happening in other sections, and, in several cases, claiming that its part is the whole."
Awards
1963 - Honorary Fellow, British Psychological Society
References
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Category:Alumni of Bedford College, London
Category:Alumni of King's College London
Category:20th-century British psychologists
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