Philosophical Roots of Psychology

Psychology in the making.

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Published 'The Passions of the Soul', claiming that the body and soul are separate (1649)
Rene Descartes
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Described a dynamic mind with a conscious and unconscious in 'A Text-book in Psychology' (1816)
Johann Friedrich Herbart
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Investigated hypnosis in his book 'On The Cause of Lucid Sleep' (1819)
Abbe Faria
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His book 'The Sickness unto Death' marked the beginning of existentialism (1849)
Soren Kierkegaard
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Published 'On the Origin of Species', proposing that all our traits are inherited (1859)
Charles Darwin
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Discovered that the left and right hemispheres of the brain have separate functions (1861)
Pierre Paul Broca
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Suggested that nurture is more important than nature, in 'Hereditary Genius' (1869)
Francis Galton
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Provided evidence that damage to a specific area of the brain causes the loss of specific skills (1874)
Carl Wernicke
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Produced 'Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System' (1877)
Jean-Martin Charcot
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Founded the first laboratory of experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany (1879)
Wilhelm Wundt
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Published the 'Textbook of Psychiatry' (1883)
Emil Kraeplin
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Detailed his experiments learning nonsense syllables in his book 'Memory' (1885)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Published the first edition of the 'American Journal of Psychology' (1887)
G. Stanley Hall
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Suggested that hysteria involves dissociation and splitting of the personality (1889)
Pierre Janet
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The 'father of psychology' published 'Principles of Psychology' (1890)
William James
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Opened the first laboratory of psychodiagnosis (1895)
Alfred Binet
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Described a dynamic mind with a conscious and unconscious in 'A Text-book in Psychology' (1816)

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Johann Friedrich Herbart

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Investigated hypnosis in his book 'On The Cause of Lucid Sleep' (1819)

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His book 'The Sickness unto Death' marked the beginning of existentialism (1849)

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Published 'On the Origin of Species', proposing that all our traits are inherited (1859)

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