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Plato suggested that the brain is the mechanism of mental processes.
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Franz Mesmer detailed his cure for some mental illness, originally called mesmerism and now known as Hynosis
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Philippe released the first mental patients from confinement in the first massive movement for more humane treatment of the mentally ill.
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Franz Gall wrote about Phrenology
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Phineas Gage suffered brain damage when an iron pole pierced his brain, his personalty changed even though the impact of the pole impacted his brain suggesting the brain plays a role on personality.
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Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) first used in the treatment of Schizophrenia
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French physician Paul Broca discovered an area in the left frontal lobe that plays a key role in language development
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G. Stanley Hall received the first American PhD. in psychology. He later founded the American Psychology Association.
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Wilhelm Wundt founded the first formal laboratory of Psychology at the University of Leipzig
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First laboratory in America was established at John Hopkins University
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Sir Francis Galton developed the technique known as the correlation to better understand the interrelationships in his intelligence studies.
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Alfred Binet founded the first laboratory of psycho diagnosis.
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Edward Thorndike developed ""Law of Effect" arguing that "a stimulus- response chain is strengthened if the outcome of that chain is positive."
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Carl G. Jung departed from Freudian views and developed his own theories citing Freud's inability to acknowledge religion and spirituality.
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John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner published the little Albert experiments, demonstrating that fear could be classically conditioned.
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Walter B. Cannon coined the term homeostasis and began research on the fight or flight phenomenon.
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DSM the third published by the American Psychiatric Association
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American psychological society was established.
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Psychology advanced to the technological age with the emergence of e-therapy
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The Milton H. Erickson foundation is dedicated to training health professionals through conferences, workshops and programs.