PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lightner Witmer, Wilhelm Wundt, Pierre Janet
22 Jan 2020
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Lightner witmer (1867-1956): -didn"t agree with wundt but studied with him -interested in applying psychology to abnormal behaviour and how to treat people with mental deficiencies (boarding school for these children) -created clinical psychology profession. Medically tested the intelligence of disabled children thought genetic factors were to blame initially but realized environmental factors are more important because a variety of sensory experiences in childhood. Mesmer (1734-1815): -looked at how magnetic powers affect humans directly (originally prominent in vienna) Good health has to do with well aligned magnetic fields if misaligned then illness and need treatment needed to fix this: iron medication and magnets used to spread throughout body. Patients would fall into a trance state and would come to feeling better initially used magnetics but then realized they are not needed and used hands instead. Very controversial and expelled from vienna, moved to paris and had many patients so created a group therapy medical community is.
