How much time is an introduction to chemistry class expected to spend on alchemy? Most people say zero. It is an obsolete paradigm, which does not relate to current thinking in the field.
How much time is an introduction to psychology class expected to spend on Freud? I say zero. It is an obsolete paradigm, which does not relate to current thinking in the field.
In teaching the basics of any field, you either teach how we got where are or where we are. You can not do both well. Every moment you spend on history is one less moment available to spend on trying to understand the world as it is now. Covering the current field of psychology is out of scope for a single course, there is no need add the weight of history.
The history of a field has value. However that value belongs in the history class, not in the introduction class.
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