Psychology

By lexihilgart

  • First psychology laboratory

    Wilhelm Wundt opens first experimental laboratory in psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.

  • First American psychology laboratory

    G. Stanley Hall establishes first U.S. experimental psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins University

  • First doctorate in psychology

    The first doctorate in psychology is given to Joseph Jastrow

  • First professor of psychology

    The first academic title "professor of psychology" is given to James McKeen Cattell

  • APA founded

    G. Stanley Hall founds the American Psychological Association (APA).

  • First psychology clinic

    Lightner Witmer opens the world's first psychological clinic to patients.

  • IQ Tests Developed

    Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale of general intelligence. Later researchers refined the work into the concept of intelligence quotient; IQ

  • Army Intelligence

    Standardized intelligence and aptitude tests are administered to two million U.S. soldiers during WWI

  • Menninger Clinic

    First nobel prize for psychology research

  • Electroencephalogram invested

    Hans Berger invented the device to graph the electrical activity of the brain by means of electrodes attached to the head

  • Alcoholics Anonymous

    Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is founded by Bob Smith

  • First lobotomy in the U.S

    Walter Freeman performs the first frontal lobotomy at George Washington University

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Ugo Cerletti treat patients with electrical shocks to alleviate schizophrenia and psychosis

  • National Mental Health Act Passed

    Harry Truman signs the National Mental Health Act, providing generous funding for psychiatric education and research

  • First drug to treat depression

    The drug imipramine may be able to lessen depression reported by studies

  • FDA approves Lithium

    The FDA approves lithium carbonate to treat patients with bipolar mood disorders

  • AIDS and HIV first diagnosed

    AIDS and HIV presents mental health professionals with challenges ranging from at-risk patients' anxieity and depression to AIDS-related dementia