The History of Psychology in Less Than 5 Minutes - From Wundt to Today | History of Science

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How did psychology start? This video outlines the history of psychology, from its origins in Germany with the work of Wilhelm Wundt, through into Functionalism (William James), past Freud and his Psychodynamic approach, onto Behaviourism (John Watson, Ivan Pavlov), the Cognitive Revolution, and the Biological Revolution. It's amazing how much can come out of a relatively short period of time - Psychology has only existed as a discipline for two centuries.
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[amyramler]

Actually, Wundt's approach was voluntarism and his student, Englishman Titchener, was the one who named the approach structuralism when he came to the United States. Voluntarism and structuralism have a very different emphasis stemming from Wundt's German paradigm and Titchener's English paradigm based in positivism. It is a very common misconception that Wundt was a structuralist and many textbooks put him in that category. Check out Danzinger, 1980, Willhelm Wundt and the making of a scientific psychology and Henley (2019) Hergenhahn's An introduction to the history of psychology.

[BadPrincess]

This should be titled A VERY brief History of Western, Cishet, White Male Psychology

[maneatingseas]

It’s blindly obnoxious to limit the existence of psychology to 19th century, when mythology has dealt and shed light upon every concern of modern psychology for eons, with the basis of a society maintained by folklore, music and cuisine - culture. Main problem is obvious. Academia is formed by interpreters who are foreigners to the core culture of the world historically.

The Greek myths, practically an amalgamation of various deeper, more ancient myths and archetypes going back to the Central Region; (I replace the degenerate designation of Middle East) Neolithic Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persian peninsula, Levant, Egypt, is the cinema of psychology, carved into stone, cities and empires.

The fallible, self-righteous academia of Northern Europe has given us an archeology, anthropology, psychology… divorced from the psyche, and history.
The departmentalisation of faculties had its benefits up to a point, but when you question the history of archeology, psychology, anthropology, etc, the account you get is plain ludicrous. And that’s the proof in the pudding.

[jrgenespolinjohnson]

Pavlov was not a behaviorist. This is clearly wrong. He never even recognized himself as a psychologist, but his work had a huge impact on later psychology such as the behaviorism.