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c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
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 ...
Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations Into the History of Psychological Research is an academic textbook written by Roger R. Hock that is currently in its eighth edition. The book provides summaries, critiques, and updates on important research that has impacted the field of psychology. The textbook is used in psychology courses ...
Psychobiography is a field within the realms of psychology and biography that analyzes the lives of historically significant individuals through psychological theory and research. Its goal is to develop a better understanding of notable individuals by applying psychological theories to their biographies to further explain the motives behind ...
George Herbert Mead - American philosopher , sociologist, and psychologist; a founder of social psychology; founder of symbolic interactionism; Stanley Milgram - performed famous experiment that demonstrated people's excessive willingness to obey authority figures; Walter Mischel - among the first to promote a situationist view of personality
A survey was conducted on the basis of more than 200 contemporary and later sources: reviews and critiques of his publications (since 1858), references to Wundt's work in textbooks on psychology and the history of psychology (from 1883 to 2010), biographies, congress reports, praise on his decadal birthdays, obituaries and other texts.
Max Wertheimer, co-founder of Gestalt psychology; Drew Westen; Michael White, (Founder of narrative therapy) Ken Wilber, transpersonal psychology, then integral psychology; Glenn D. Wilson, personality and sexual behaviour; Richard Wiseman; Władysław Witwicki, one of the fathers of psychology in Poland, the creator of the theory of cratism
He was the first major figure to break away from psychoanalysis to form an independent school of psychotherapy and personality theory, [52] which he called individual psychology because he believed a human to be an indivisible whole, an individuum. He also imagined a person to be connected or associated with the surrounding world.