The History of
Psychology online text:
Part 1: The Ancients
Part 2: The Rebirth
Part 3: The 1800s
Part 4: The 1900s
PDF versions of the text were created by Diana Wieser:
Part 1: The Ancients
Part 2: The Rebirth
Part 3: The 1800s
Part 4: The 1900s
They are also available in German, translated by Diana Wieser:
Part 1: The Ancients
Part 2: The Rebirth
Part 3: The 1800s
Part 4: The 1900s
In addition, this text is available as a book and as an audio
podcast, and in a translation to the artificial language, lfn:
History of Psychology - the book (available
from Amazon)
The Story of Psychology - Audio podcast,
narrated by Todd Daniel
La istoria de psicolojia - Un tradui a lfn
Note: Study guides and practice
quizzes are available. Click here!
Part One: The
Ancients
Psyche
and Eros - also available in Chinese, Macedonian
The Presocratics
- also available in Chinese
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- also available in Chinese, Macedonian, Polish, Russian,
Spanish, Ukrainian, French, Filipino, Serbian, Mongolian
Logical Fallacies
Epicureans and Stoics
The Roman Empire - also
available in Bosnian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Serbian
The Middle Ages
- also available in Georgian
The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
Epistemology
The Enlightenment
Metaphysics
David Hume and Immanuel Kant
Ethics
Part
Three:
The 1800s
Early Medicine and
Physiology
Charles Darwin and Evolution
The Romantic Philosophers
The Beginnings of Psychology
Wilhelm Wundt and William James
- also available in Ukrainian
Part Four: The 1900s
Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Gestalt Psychology - also
available in Bosnian, Czech, Finnish, Macedonian, Russian,
Ukrainian
Phenomenological Existentialism
Modern Medicine and Physiology
The Cognitive Movement
Resources:
In addition to the primary sources mentioned within the text
itself, I am indebted to several secondary sources as well:
Will and Ariel Durant - The
Story of Civilization.
B. R. Hergenhahn - An Introduction to the History of
Psychology.
Daniel N. Robinson - An
Intellectual History of Psychology.
The Encyclopedia Britannica (various editions).
Robert Audi (editor) - The Cambridge Dictionary of
Philosophy.
William Sahakian - History of Philosophy.
Colin Mcevedy - Penguin Atlas of (Ancient/Medieval/Modern)
History.
Kinder and Hildemann - Anchor Atlas of World History.
My own Personality Theories e-text.
All errors are, of course, mine.
