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Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
1911 – William McDougall, founder of Hormic Psychology published Body and Mind: A History and Defence of Animism, claiming that there is an animating principle in Nature and that the mind guides evolution. 1912 – Max Wertheimer published Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement, helping found Gestalt Psychology
His lectures on psychology were published as Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology in 1863–1864. Wundt applied himself to writing a work that came to be one of the most important in the history of psychology, Principles of Physiological Psychology, in 1874. This was the first textbook that was written pertaining to the field of experimental ...
Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-46985-8. OCLC 54460256. Kent, Deborah (2003). Snake Pits, Talking Cures & Magic Bullets: A History of Mental Illness. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 978-0-7613-2704-2.
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. [1] [2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social ...
1945 – The Journal of Clinical Psychology was founded. 1949 – The Boulder Conference outlined the scientist-practitioner model of clinical psychology, looking at the master's degree versus PhD used by medical providers and researchers, respectively.
Berlin: Georg Reimer [A chronology of events in the history of psychiatry until 1893]. Simon, Bennett (1980). Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece : The Classical Roots of Modern Psychiatry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801408595. Thomas S. Szasz (1977).
The history of human thought covers the history of philosophy, ... Platonic psychology with its divisions of reason, ... especially ancient Greek works, ...