Chapter 2: The Meeting of East & West The German Roots Moghaddam’s (1987) categorization of

psychology in the Three Worlds would show that Psychology in Cebu City has its direct roots in second
world. In 1954, a department of Psychology was established at the University of San Carlos by Joseph
Goertz after he spent almost 18 years of Psychological work in Beijing and a couple of years in Europe
before being sent to Cebu. With Goertz teaching experimental psychology in the tradition of Wundt, in
what has been called the “Genealogy of Psychology”, in Visayas, he was a step away from the original
German Edition and was using another Western language communicating with his predominantly
Cebuano-Speaking students. The University of interest in Leyte, aside from the UP at Tacloban, is the
Divine Word University, where thejournal Samar-Leyte Studies comes from and where the Pambansang
Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino or PSSP held its first regional conference. The output of the
conference is probably a landmark in psychological publishing in the Philippines—a book entitledFilipino
Religious Psychology—not because of the conference theme but because the title is more“sellable” than
the saidProceeding of the First Regional Conference of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang
Pilipino. The UP at Tacloban launched an undergraduate program in psychology in 1981 under the
leadership of Daisy Soledad. The Spanish Hold in España and Intramuros, Manila Jose A. Samson, the
first with a Phd in Psychology Emmanuel Vit Samson was a doctor of medicine while Angel de Blas was
a Spanish Dominican priest and philosopher. UST registered another “first” by including in 1987a
subject in Filipino Psychology as an integral part of its undergraduate psychology curriculum.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Founded by the Spanish Dominican in 1630 in Intramuros, Manila. The
Belgian Connection in the Cordilleras Independently developing up north in the Cordilleras. SLU
started to offer psychology as a major field of undergraduate study in 1967. Filipino Psychology is
Conceptualized as mainstream Philippine psychology and not particularly oriented to the concerns of the
people of the Cordillera

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The concept of the “Barefoot Psychologist” was broached for the first time in community psychology
andfield methods classes held at the foot of the mountains inBulacan aspsychology and anthropology
students fromlowland universities climbed up north to the cordilleras.American Legacy at Diliman and
Manila’s University Belt Alfredo V. Lagmay from UP Diliman was sent to the United States ostensibly om
a fellowship precisely to weaken the UP Department of Philisophy led by Ricardo Pascual. Lagmay’s First
move was to transfer to the College of Liberal Arts, reorienting psychology’s applied educational
perspective at the UP to a basic scientific orientation. Experimental Psychology is now an integral part
of the undergraduate psychology curricula in the Philippine School but Lagmay didn’t quitesuceed in
promoting behavior analysis in the Skinnerian tradition. Jaime Bulatao, a clinical psychologist and Jesuit
priest, established the department of psychology at the Ateneo, Taught Sigmund Freud. Dissociating
Freud’s teaching from the horrors of sex and immorality was the first item in Bulatao’s psychology
agenda. Taking Freud's side cannotbe all that bad in a culture whereLibidohas an alternative
counterpart inLibog,a word which always makes the Filipino smile. To Fight for sex is one thing but to
fight for money is another Bulatao’s bigger problem was the survival of the psychology department at
the Ateneo de Manila. Bulatao’s contribution to the indigenous psychology lies not in his crystal balls
and dousing rods but in his insightful appreciation of theAlbularyo(Local Healer) even as he documents
their psychology in the language of hypnotherapy and altered states of consciousness. The Heavy hand,
or call it “Informed Judgment”, of the National Intelligence and Security agency of the Marcos
government prevented the departure ofDanilo Tuazon for Moscow for advance training in Physiological
Psychology. CEU, has the distinction of having published in 1983 Panimulang Sikolohiya, the first
psychology textbook incorporating Philippine Research materials and using the Filipino Language. The
National Science Development Board (NSDB) committee’s Filipino term for the word psychology, is
dalub-isipan(expertise-mind). A psychologist is a dalub-isip(expert-mind).Mind isisipan. Ideation is
Isaisip. Intellectual isisipnonwhen used as noun but pang-isipanormaka-isipnonwhen used as an
adjective.