how psychology became an independent science?

Answer 1

to trace the origin and evolution of the science would take far too long (if one is to do an adequate job) however, the following link is to an etext that does a superior job and is nicely organized for the reader's convience. it details the evolution from the ancients through the 20th century.

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/historyofpsych.html

Answer 2

I think that psychology became a independent science when enough people started to realize that everyone had certain habits and issues the same. That people pretty much develop the same and they experience the same emotions. When people started to look around them and realized that there were certain symptoms that meant that you had a mental condition and that most people with the same symptoms would be experiencing the same mental conditions. I have a girl friend who swears that she doesn't believe in psychology and that it's something that was made up to give doctors another way to get money from patients. Yet when we have serious discussions about things that her children are gong through or that she's experiencing she'll ask me What does so and so mean and what would Freud or Jung do in those circumstances. I ask her why should she care if she doesn't believe in psychology? She's never quite sure what to say.

Answer 3

First, it will have to become a science.