2006-08-10 02:39:07 · 9 answers · asked by apoorva kumar 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Rudolph Goclenius, a German scholastic philosopher, is credited with inventing the term 'psychology' (1590). The root of the word psychology (psyche) means "soul" in Greek, and psychology was sometimes considered a study of the soul (in a religious sense of this term). Psychology as a medical discipline can be seen in Thomas Willis' reference to psychology (the "Doctrine of the Soul") in terms of brain function, as part of his 1672 anatomical treatise "De Anima Brutorum" ("Two Discourses on the Souls of Brutes").
2006-08-10 02:45:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sigmund Freud was the Founder of Psychology.
2006-08-10 02:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wilhelm Wundt, Founder of Psychology
Wundt as Father of Psychology
2006-08-10 03:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Usha 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rudolph Göckel or Rudolf Goclenius [the Older] (1 March 1547 - 8 June 1628) was a German scholastic philosopher, credited with the inventions of the terms psychology (1590),
2006-08-10 02:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by RayRay 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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who is the founder of psychology?
2015-08-12 23:22:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Topics on psychology have always been studied and explored by scientists and doctors. It's just that they don't call it psychology or that no one gives a name or category to the topics they are researching on.
I would think that Sigmund Freud is the founder of Psychology.
2006-08-10 02:44:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that Matt has expertly provided the technical answer to your question. I wonder, though, if you meant by your question, Who is called "The Father of Psychoanalysis"?
That, of course, would be the Austrian-born Sigmund Freud, as your other answerers have mentioned. He pioneered such concepts as infant sexuality and the existence of the id, ego and superego.
Interestingly, this business of the patient lying on the couch and looking at the ceiling while the psychiatrist listens and takes notes was initiated by Freud, who couldn't bear to look his patients in the eye.
2006-08-10 02:55:03 · answer #7 · answered by Elwood Blues 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usha is correct. Wilhelm Wundt is known as the father of psychology.
William James is known as the father of American psychology.
2006-08-10 14:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Freud
2006-08-10 02:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by j.swaney 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Id thought that it was Sigmund Freud..i think that how you spell his name.
2006-08-10 02:45:18 · answer #10 · answered by Toya J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋