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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.
1953 – B.F. Skinner outlined behavioral therapy, lending support for behavioral psychology via research in the literature. 1953 – Code of Ethics for Psychologists developed by the American Psychological Association. 1954 – Abraham Maslow helped to found Humanistic psychology and later developed his famous Hierarchy of Needs.
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 ...
Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on comparative psychology, list of clinical psychologists, list of developmental psychologists, list of educational psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists, list of social psychologists, and list of cognitive scientists. Many psychologists included in those lists are also ...
The list below includes these, and other, influential schools of thought in psychology: Activity-oriented approach; Analytical psychology; Anomalistic psychology
French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon created the Binet-Simon Scale to assess intellectual ability, marking the start of standardized psychological testing. 1906. Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov published the first Conditioning studies. 1908. The term "Schizophrenia" was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Paul Eugen Bleuler. 1909
[16] [17] While many Ph.D. training programs in clinical psychology have taken a strong empirical approach to psychotherapy that has led to a greater emphasis on cognitive behavioral interventions, other training programs and psychologists are now adopting an eclectic orientation. This integrative movement attempts to combine the most effective ...
Pages in category "History of psychology" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total. ... Timeline of psychology; A. Adolf-Wuerth-Center for the ...