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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
History of Psychology
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Aug 9, 1247
Bedlam
Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital World's first mental hospital opens in London. It was called Bethlehem
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Jul 9, 1264
St.Thomas Aquinas Publishes his famous Summa Theologica
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Francis BaconBiography The Proficience and Advancement of Learning is published
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Time period of John Locke, a major leader of the British empiricist tradition, and one of the most influential philosophers of post-renaissance Europe.
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French philosopher Renê Descartes publishes Discourse on Method. Descartes is famous for the quote "I think, therefore I am"
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René Descartes Writes Passions of the Soul which postulates the total separation of body and soul
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Thomas Hobbes Publishes the Leviathan
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is published by English philosopher John Locke