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I dont really know a whole lot about psychology I'm just trying to learn more becuase its interesting to me.




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late 1800's

siegmund Freud is the father of psychology
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that is one of the dumbest things i have ever heard. quit pretending to know psychology
Actually the founding father of psychology is Wihelm Wundt. He established the first psychology lab in 1875.  Freud wasnt even born untill 1856.
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Wilhelm Wundt is generally credited with establishing the first formal laboratory for the scientific study of behavior or psychology at the University of Leipzig in 1879.
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As the two people above posted, Wilhelm Wundt (pronounce the "W"s as "V"s--he was German) is the one who basically got it started on it's own two feet however before that, it was actually a subfield of philosophy. These psychological philosophical thoughts date back to the days of Aristotle.

Here's a link to further help you:
http://psychology.about.com/od/apastyle/ht/abstract.htm

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Psychology does not have a founder.  Wilhelm Wundt was the first person to call himself a psychologist and to do clinical experiments.  He credited the begining of psychology as 1879.

William James wrote The Principles of Psychology in 1890.

We should probably include that psychiatry predates psychology since the American Journal of Insanity (later changed to the American Journal of Psychiatry) was first published in 1844, by Amariah Brigham, Superintendent of the Utica (N.Y.) State Hospital. 

Asylums were being built in the late 1700s in America.  Benjamin Rush wrote Medical Inquiries and Observations upon Diseases of the Mind, in 1812. 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/early.html

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The founders are of the following:

-Wilhelm Wundt (cognitive)**

-Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)

-William James (functionalism)

-Edward Titchener (structuralism)

-John Watson (behavioral)

 

**Wundt is noted as the father, as well as Freud, but psychoanalysis is inefficient, so Wundt is normally the father of psychology.
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**Comment from someone who obviously knows absolutely nothing about Psychoanalysis. Didn't even try it.
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