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c. 10,000 BCE Shamanism

c. 6500 BCE Trephination

c. 5000 BCE Palmistry

c. 700 BCE Astropsychology

528 BCE Buddha’s Four Noble Truths

c. 500 BCE Confucian Psychology

c. 350 BCE Aristotle’s De anima

c. 350 BCE Asclepius and the Art of Healing

c. 200 BCE Bhagavad Gita

c. 160 CE Humoral Theory

c. 900 CE Sustenance for Body and Soul

1025 Canon of Medicine

1489 Da Vinci on Neuroscience

1506 Psychology as a Term

1517 The Protestant Self

1538 De Anima et Vita

1580 Montaigne’s Essays

1621 The Anatomy of Melancholy

1637 Mind-Body Dualism

1651 Leviathan

1664 Cerebri Anatome

1690 Tabula Rasa

1719 The Familiar and the Novel

1747 L’homme machine

1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments

1762 Rousseau’s Natural Child

1775 Physiognomy

1781 Kant: Is Psychology a Science?

1788 Moral Treatment

1801 Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron

1811 Bell-Magendie Law

1832 Phrenology Comes to America

1834 Just-Noticeable Difference (JND)

1835 Moral Insanity (Psychopathy)

1838 Munchausen Syndrome

1840 Kindergarten

1843 Can Machines Think?

1848 The Curious Case of Phineas Gage

1851 Circular Insanity

1859 On the Origin of Species

1861 Localization of Brain Function

1866 Down Syndrome

1867 Prosopagnosia

1867 Sensory Physiology

1871 Synesthesia

1872 Phantom Limb Pain

1874 Nature versus Nurture

1874 Experimental Psychology

1877 Baby Biographies

1879 Mental Chronometry

1885 Tourette Syndrome

1885 Multiple Personality Disorder

1886 Experimental Hypnosis

1886 Psychopathia Sexualis

1890 The Principles of Psychology

1890 Psychological Tests

1892 American Psychological Association

1896 Functional Psychology

1897 Oedipus Complex

1898 Torres Straits Expedition

1898 The Puzzle Box

1899 Psychoanalysis

1900 The Interpretation of Dreams

1902 Psychology of Testimony

1903 Psychotechnics

1903 Classical Conditioning

1904 Adolescence

1904 Culture-Bound Syndromes

1905 Psychosexual Development

1905 Binet-Simon Test of Mental Levels

1906 The Emmanuel Movement

1907 Birth Order

1907 Inferiority Complex

1907 Casa dei Bambini

1908 Yerkes-Dodson Law

1908 The Schizophrenias

1909 Apes and Language

1911 Psychology of Music

1912 Gestalt Psychology

1912 Experimental Neurosis

1912 Eugenics and Intelligence

1913 Jungian Psychology

1913 The Lie Detector

1913 Behaviorism

1914 Variability Hypothesis

1915 Shell Shock

1915 Modern Psychology in India

1918 American Classification of Mental Disorders (DSM)

1921 Army Intelligence Tests and Racism

1921 Projective Tests (Rorschach Inkblots)

1921 Neurotransmission

1922 Feminine Psychology

1923 Capgras Syndrome

1924 Cheaper by the Dozen

1924 Brain Imaging

1925 Somatotypes

1926 Genetic Epistemology

1927 Growth Studies

1927 Hawthorne Effect

1927 Zeigarnik Effect

1928 Cultural Relativism

1929 Rattus norvegicus var. albinus (Neobehaviorism)

1930 Operant Chamber (Skinner Box)

1931 Supertasters

1932 Remembering and Forgetting

1933 Marienthal Study

1934 Archetypes

1934 Zone of Proximal Development

1935 Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

1935 Psychosurgery

1935 Psychological Lifespace

1936 Defense Mechanisms

1936 [B = f(P, E)] = The Lifespace

1937 Sensory Deprivation

1937 Turing Machine

1938 The Ames Room

1938 Electroshock Therapy

1939 Psychosomatic Medicine

1939 The Organism (Mind and Body)

1939 Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale

1939 Frustration and Aggression

1940 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

1941 Psychical Discharges (Cortical Stimulation)

1942 Behavior Genetics

1943 Cybernetics

1943 The Doll Studies

1943 Hierarchy of Needs

1943 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

1944 Personality and the Behavior Disorders

1945 Failure to Thrive

1946 Logotherapy

1947 Client-Centered Therapy

1948 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

1948 Neuroplasticity

1948–1953 The Kinsey Reports

1949 Big Five Personality Factors

1949 The Hero with a Thousand Faces

1950 Antianxiety Medications

1950 Identity Crisis

1950 The Authoritarian Personality

1950 Family Therapy

1950 Brainwashing

1951 Gestalt Therapy

1951 Conformity and Independence

1952 King Solomon’s Ring

1952 Antipsychotic Medications

1952 Lives in Progress

1953 The Case of H. M.

1953 Cocktail Party Effect

1954 Pleasure and Pain Centers

1954 Contact Hypothesis

1954 Robbers Cave (Intergroup Conflict)

1954 Teaching Machine

1955 Cognitive Therapy

1955 Placebo Effect

1956 Short-Term Memory

1956 Double Bind Theory

1956 Logic Theorist

1957 Antidepressant Medications

1957 Cognitive Dissonance

1957 The Age of Psychology

1957 Subliminal Perception

1957 Homosexuality Is Not an Illness

1958 Fundamental Attribution Error

1958 (Surrogate) Mother Love

1958 Moral Development

1958 Choosing the Right Stuff

1958 Systematic Desensitization

1959 Type A Personality

1959 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

1960 The Visual Cliff

1960 Center for Cognitive Studies

1961 Enriched Environments

1961 Token Economy

1961 Biofeedback

1961 Bobo Doll (Observational Learning)

1961 Humanistic Psychology

1962 Split-Brain Studies

1963 The Feminine Mystique

1963 Gender Identity

1964 Bystander Effect

1965 Head Start

1965 Language Acquisition Device

1966 Human Sexual Response

1967 Psychology and Social Justice

1968 Transpersonal Psychology

1969 Attachment Theory

1969 The Strange Situation

1969 Five Stages of Grief

1969 Fear of Success

1970 Black Psychology

1970 The BITCH Test

1970 Discovery of the Unconscious

1971 Stanford Prison Experiment

1971 Universal Expression of Emotions

1971 Beyond Freedom and Dignity

1972 Levels-of-Processing Model of Memory

1972 Women and Madness

1972 “On Being Sane in Insane Places”

1973 Resilience

1974 Judgment under Uncertainty

1974 Measuring Androgyny

1975 Psychoneuroimmunology

1975 Learned Helplessness

1975 Sikolohiyang Pilipino

1977 Biopsychosocial Model of Health

1977 Stages of Adult Cognition

1978 Seasons of Life

1978 The Golden Cage

1978 Theory of Mind

1979 Ecological Systems Theory

1979 Social Identity Theory

1980 Nurturant-Task Model of Leadership

1980 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

1981 Stages of Faith

1982 In a Different Voice

1983 Multiple Intelligences

1984 The Flynn Effect

1986 Touch Therapy

1986 Triangular Theory of Love

1989 Liberation Psychology

1990 Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)

1992 Mirror Neurons

1992 Social Ontogenesis

1993 Mind-Body Medicine

1994 Misinformation Effect

1995 Looping Effects of Human Kinds

1995 Stereotype Threat

1996 Autonomous-Relational Self

1996 The Emotional Brain

2000 Tend and Befriend

2000 Positive Psychology

2004 Emerging Adulthood

2008 Sexual Fluidity

2013 The BRAIN Initiative

Notes and Further Reading