Hogrefe Publishing Group (formerly Verlag Hans Huber) is an international company that publishes
academic journal
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s and books in the fields of
psychology
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and
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
. The first company in the group, Hogrefe Verlag Göttingen, was founded in 1949 by in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...
,
Germany
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, where it is still based today. The group now includes publishing companies in fifteen countries.
It has been publishing journals in
North America
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in the 1970s, where its local division, Hogrefe Publishing Corp., was originally based in
Toronto
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,
Canada
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. Its North American division headquarters was relocated to the
United States
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in the late 1980s, where it is now based in
Boston
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,
.
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Publishing companies established in 1949
1949 establishments in Germany
Academic publishing companies
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