PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1.2: Mary Whiton Calkins, Psychology Today, Cognitive Psychology
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Sigmund freud, an austrian psychiatrist, revolutionized the field and introduced his ideas about psychotherapy and the connections between adult behavior and childhood experiences and childhood sexual fantasies. Mid 1900s freud"s theories were popular and widespread. Analyzed the dreams of patients in order to reveal unconscious motivations and desires. Later 20th century his ideas and methods fell out of use. During world war ii, many soldiers wanted help dealing with trauma. The shortage of psychiatrists led to a rise in psychologists providing therapy and an increase in research conducted to evaluate forms of therapy and develop new, more effective methods. This began the development of clinical psychology as we know it today. Early psychology was ambitious, seeking to pave a new way to experience and evaluate the world. It sought to determine laws about behavior and experience which would govern the way we think about the world, similarly to laws which we feel are so concrete such as.
