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Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud's first publication introduces his work on the unconscious and psychosexual development. This also marks the beginning of psychoanalysis as a way to understand human behavior. -
Alfred Adler establishes The Society Of Individual Psychology
Once a colleague of Freud, he became the first to split from his school of thought. While Freud was more focused on the past determining one's present and future, Adler focused more on the present and how one can change by setting goals and making choices. Also for the first time, emphasis was put on the therapeutic relationship. -
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Neo-Freudian Schools of Thought
Focus begins to shift from the intrapsychic to interpersonal relationships -
Carl Jung Establishes Analytical Psychology
Jung breaks away from Freud to focus on the collective unconscious which was more about individuals sharing certain universal experiences and this impact on one's personality. -
Carl Jung Publish the Essay Personality Types
Jung's publication and research is at the forefront of personality type theory, looking at patterns in how individuals perfer to express themselves. Jung's influence can be seen today in the wide spread MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) helping to show how individuals make choices and perceive their world. -
Sociologist Erich Fromm impact on Neo-Freudian Thought
Fromm moves to Columbia University and begins to mesh Freud's ideas of psychoanaylsis with Karl Marx's socialist theory to get a unique point of view on personality. -
Karen Horney Establishes The American Institute for Psychoanalysis
In dissention with Freud, Horney helped create an alternative psychoanalytic theory and started the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She is also one of the pioneers of feminine psychology, focusing more on the impact societal and environmental factors had on individuals, specifically gender norms and the roles males and females are supposed to suscribe to. -
William Alanson White Institute Founded
This psychoanalytic institute was founded by Harry Stack Sullivan, Erich Fromm, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, David Rioch, Janet Rioch and Clara Thompson. Emphasis is placed on the therapeutic relationship as well as the human experience, recogizing that human behavior is the sum of many different factors. -
Erik Erikson's Childhood And Society Released
Erikson's publication further developed Freud's idea of ego development by looking at how one's biological functioning interacts with one's sociocultural functioning across the lifetime, not just in childhood. -
Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory
Published The Interpersonal Theory on Psychiatry which looked at the interaction between one's interpersonal relationships and personality traits developed and then later reinfornced throughout childhood.