The History of Psychology in Less Than 5 Minutes - From Wundt to Today | History of Science

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How did psychology start? This video outlines the history of psychology, from its origins in Germany with the work of Wilhelm Wundt, through into Functionalism (William James), past Freud and his Psychodynamic approach, onto Behaviourism (John Watson, Ivan Pavlov), the Cognitive Revolution, and the Biological Revolution. It's amazing how much can come out of a relatively short period of time - Psychology has only existed as a discipline for two centuries.
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[@amyramler4866]

Actually, Wundt's approach was voluntarism and his student, Englishman Titchener, was the one who named the approach structuralism when he came to the United States. Voluntarism and structuralism have a very different emphasis stemming from Wundt's German paradigm and Titchener's English paradigm based in positivism. It is a very common misconception that Wundt was a structuralist and many textbooks put him in that category. Check out Danzinger, 1980, Willhelm Wundt and the making of a scientific psychology and Henley (2019) Hergenhahn's An introduction to the history of psychology.

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

Thank you so much for sharing this and for the reading recommendation - that's so interesting, I'll take a look!

[@fabbeyonddadancer]

But where does eastern psychology fit in the history of psychology ? Wouldn’t eastern psychology actually be where psychology begins ?

[@NatFablife]

Keep at it, enjoying your videos

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

Thanks 👍

[@newvaguecity]

It’s blindly obnoxious to limit the existence of psychology to 19th century, when mythology has dealt and shed light upon every concern of modern psychology for eons, with the basis of a society maintained by folklore, music and cuisine - culture. Main problem is obvious. Academia is formed by interpreters who are foreigners to the core culture of the world historically.
The Greek myths, practically an amalgamation of various deeper, more ancient myths and archetypes going back to the Central Region; (I replace the degenerate designation of Middle East) Neolithic Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persian peninsula, Levant, Egypt, is the cinema of psychology, carved into stone, cities and empires.
The fallible, self-righteous academia of Northern Europe has given us an archeology, anthropology, psychology… divorced from the psyche, and history.
The departmentalisation of faculties had its benefits up to a point, but when you question the history of archeology, psychology, anthropology, etc, the account you get is plain ludicrous. And that’s the proof in the pudding.

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

Thanks for your comment. I agree with your sentiment that people have been interested in the questions Psychologists were interested in today since the ancient times. However, your apparent conclusion that this either makes ancient Philosophers Psychologists, or that this historic interest in human mind and behaviour somehow negates the history of scientific psychology, seems incomplete to me.
It's the equivalent of refuting the history of maths as a discipline because caveman had ten fingers and therefore also had a counting system.
Discussing a topic and turning it into a dedicated scientific discipline are two separate things. I don't doubt the ancients were interested in psychological questions, nor that their work inspired (and inspires) present day Psychology... But they're not the same thing.

[@MrSillyGeek]

Nice video and nice shirt bro

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

Thanks! Thanks for your comment :)

[@1BadPrincess]

This should be titled A VERY brief History of Western, Cishet, White Male Psychology

[@jrgenespolinjohnson2469]

Pavlov was not a behaviorist. This is clearly wrong. He never even recognized himself as a psychologist, but his work had a huge impact on later psychology such as the behaviorism.

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

You're right in that Pavlov wouldn't have used this terminology - history is full of retrospective labelling!

[@GilMarinho]

awesome content :)

[@PsychologyUnlocked]

Thank you!