History of Psychology

Plato

387 BCE

Plato thought that the brain was the mechanism of mental processes.

PP

1793

Philippe Pinel released the first mental patients from confinement to find more help for the mentally ill

The first psychology Laboratory

1879

at the university of Leipzig Wilhelm Wundt opened the first laboratory for psychology

first U.S psychology laboratory

1883

A student of Wilhelm Wundt named G. Stanley Hall established the first american psychology laboratory at John Hopkins University

First professor in Psychology

1888

James McKeen earns the first professor of psychology academic name. he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University

The founding of the APA

1892

G. Stanley Hall finds the American Psychology Association and becomes the APA's first president

The first women president of the APA

1904

The APA elects Mary Calkins as the first female president in the APA

IQ test developed

1905

Alfred Binet and Theodore simon developed a scale of general intelligence based on your mental age

Psychoanalyst visit Clark University

1909

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung visit the United States for a psychoanalyst symposium at clark university

Behaviorism

1913

John B. Watson publishes "Psychology as Behavior," which would be launched as behavioralism

First African American doctorate in psychology

1920

Francis Cecil sumner earns a phd in psychology at Clark university

Nazi persecution of psychologists

1933

After the Nazis gain control of the German government, scholars and researchers in psychology and psychiatry are persecuted

Alcoholics Anonymous

1935

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is founded by Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. The AA meetings have a format of a 12 step program to being sober

E- therapy

1998

Psychology advances with technology which would emergence e-therapy

New Mexico

2002

New Mexico becomes the first state to pass legislation which allows licensed psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medication