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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.
Journals are included if they are archival, scholarly, peer-reviewed, and regularly published with titles, abstracts, and keywords in English. As of October 2013, over 1,700 journal titles were included in their entirety (i.e. "cover to cover"). Articles were selected for psychological relevance from the remaining titles.
Psychology (from Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of" [1]) is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of human mental functions and behavior.
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 ...
Sigmund Freud published Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. 1923. German pharmacologist Otto Loewi and English neuroscientist Sir Henry Dale discovered Acetylcholine, the first neurotransmitter to be described, winning them the 1936 Nobel Prize. 1924. German neuropsychiatrist Hans Berger discovered human Electroencephalography.
Cultural-historical psychology; Depth psychology; Descriptive psychology; Developmental psychology; Ecological psychology; Ecological systems theory; Ecopsychology; Ego psychology; Environmental psychology; Evolutionary psychology; Existential psychology; Experimental analysis of behavior - the school descended from B.F. Skinner's work ...
Psychohistory is a social science that analyzes human behavior by combining psychology, history, and other social sciences, while also being a amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. [1] Its proponents claim to examine the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual ...
The Journal of Psychohistory (ISSN 0145-3378, OCLC 2428996) is a journal established in 1973 in the field of psychohistory, edited by Lloyd deMause [2] and published by the Institute for Psychohistory (IP) . [3] The journal has been originally published as History of Childhood Quarterly [4] and since 1976 as The Journal of Psychohistory.