In typical historical accounts of the beginning of the new psychology in America the existing tradition of American mental and moral philosophy is often presented as outdated approach of thinking from which the new psychology was a radical departure.
New psychology was a movement that started in the later half of 19th century. Previously psychologists were not scientists. However, the movement transformed turned psychology into a science rather than philosophy. It emphasized the mental structures and how they are organized in the mind. Its aim was to establish and systematically classify the human mind into different processes. The new psychology was radically different from the existing tradition of American mental and moral philosophy and is described as such in the historical accounts at the beginning of new psychology.
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