Humanistic perspective

By Guilhermina

  • First experimental psychology

    Wilhelm Wundt founds the first experimental psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany, marking the moment psychology becomes its own field of study.

  • Psychoanallysis

    Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, begins treating patients in Vienna, Austria.

  • The interpertation of dreams

    Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

  • BPSF

    The British Psychological Society is formed.

  • Classical conditioning

    Ivan Pavlov trains a dog to salivate on hearing the sound of a bell. Pavlov's dog becomes the first example of classical conditioning.

  • Analitical psychology

    Carl Jung publishes The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. Jung begins to break away from Freud's ideas to develop his own theories of analytical psychology.

  • The Development of the Psychology school

    Max Wertheimer publishes his research on the phi phenomenon, which contributed to the development of the Gestalt school of psychology.

  • School of behaviourism of founded

    John Watson becomes a founder of the school of behaviourism, believing that all thoughts, feelings and actions are developed through conditioning.

  • The moral judgment of a child

    Jean Piaget publishes The Moral Judgment of the Child.

  • Electroconvulsive therapy

    Electroconvulsive therapy is used for the first time on a person. It becomes a popular method of treatment throughout the 40s and 50s (and remains in use today).

  • Counselling an Psychotherapy was introduced

    Carl Rogers publishes Counselling and Psychotherapy, encouraging therapists to adopt a client-centred approach. This method becomes widely practised.

  • The theory of hiearchy needs

    Abraham Maslow, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, publishes his theory of the hierarchy of needs.

  • The development of rational emotive behaviour

    Albert Ellis publishes Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, leading to the development of rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT).

  • The founder of ognitive behavioural therapy

    Aaron Beck publishes a model of depression that suggests thoughts play a significant role. He is seen as the founder of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

  • The femenist tract

    Carol Gilligan publishes the feminist tract In a Different Voice.

  • The publishing of language instict

    Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct is published

  • The american Psychological Association

    Martin Seligman chooses positive psychology as the theme for his speech to the American Psychological Association, as its incoming president.

  • The essential difference theory

    Simon Baron-Cohen's 'The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain' proposes that autism may be an "extreme form of maleness".