History of Psychology

The History of psychology dates back to the Ancient Greeks. There is also evidence of psychological thought in established the first psychological clinic in the 1890s. James McKeen Cattell adapted Francis Galton's anthropometric methods to generate the first program of mental testing in the 1890s. In Vienna, meanwhile, the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud developed an independent approach to the study of the mind called psychoanalysis, which has been widely influential.

The 20th century saw a reaction to Edward Titchener's critique of Wundt's empiricism. This contributed to the formulation of behaviorism by John B. Watson, which was popularized by B. F. Skinner. Behaviorism proposed limiting psychological study to that of overt behavior, because that could be quantified and easily measured.

Behaviorists considered knowledge of the "mind" too metaphysical to achieve scientifically. The final decades of the 20th century saw the decline of behaviorism and the rise of cognitive science, an interdisciplinary approach to studying the human mind. Cognitive science again considers the "mind" as a subject for investigation, using the tools of evolutionary psychology, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and neurobiology.


History of Psychology
Short Description time by time Psychology history also Publications, Key events, Approach and perspective :

• Manual Experimental Psychology
• Interpretation of Dreams
• A Mind that found it self
• The Child's conception of the world
• Behavior of Organisms
• The Neurotic Personality of our time
• The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children
• The Nature of Prejudice
• Epilepsy and Functional Anatomy
• APA Ethical Standards
• Syntactic Structures
• The Selfish Gene
• DSM on PDA

The History Psychology on this flash from 1895 to 1995

Approach and Perspective Short Description :

• Structuralism
• Psychoanalysis
• Functionalism
• Behaviorism
• Gestalt Psychology
• Psychopharmocology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Humanistic Psychology
• Biopsychology
• Evolutionary Psychology
• Cultural Psychology

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