International sport’s psychology routes: from the Old Continent to the southern hemisphere (1965-1981)

Abstract

Abstract

This article’s main topic is the transnational circulation of sport’s psychology knowledge and its inscription in Argentina from 1965-1981. This work’s main objective is to present a first map of this itinerary of transnational circulation, and to collaborate in this way on the increase of knowledge about the history of psychology in Argentina, and of the history of the sport psychology at international and local level. Stadium magazine constitutes the central clipping of this research, although other types of sources and bibliography were also consulted. In the first place, the diffusion in Argentina of the First International Congress of Sport Psychology of 1965 is approached. Later, some contacts between international sport psychology and Argentine specialists in the period 1965-1981 are located. Then, some attempts to apply psychology in Argentine sport during the study period are presented and discussed. Finally, it is hypothesized the role that Stadium could have played in the circulation of knowledge in Spanish language about sport psychology during this period. Last, in the conclusions there are proposed a series of points to be investigated in greater depth that would allow to expand the initial map and the transnational circulation circuit of sport psychology developed in this work.

Keywords: Sport Psychology – History of psychology – transnational circulation - sport