A timeline of psychology

This timeline marks most of our books and many other items of psychological interest (and a few other landmarks to let you know where you are). Two of our books (Creativity & the Mind and The Broken Brain) were published in the 1990s. When you start a book, refer back to this timeline to see where we are in the history of Psychology.

1856	Sigismund Schlomo Freud born
1860	Fechner's Elements of Psychology
	US Civil War ends
1870
	St. Olaf College founded James' informal laboratory
1880
	Ebbinghaus' On Memory
1890	James' Principles of Psychology
	Freud & Brewer Studies in Hysteria
1900	Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
	Freud lectures at Clark University
1910
	Titanic sinks Watson's Psychology as the Behaviorist views it
1920
	Freud's Ego and the Id Stock Market crash
1930
	Skinner's Behavior of Organisms
1940
	Tolman's Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men
1950
	First use of Clorpromazine Miller's Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two Festinger's A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
1960
	Milgram's Behavioral Study of Obedience Neisser's Cognitive Psychology
1970
	Skinner's Beyond Freedom & Dignity CAT scans of Schizophrenics
1980	Diagnostic & Statistical Manual III

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