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Wundt (vnt), Wilhelm 1832-1920.
German physiologist who founded the first experimental psychology laboratory. His Principles of Physiological Psychology (1873-1874) is considered a classic text.


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The 44 readings are organized into sections on the philosophical and physiological roots of modern psychology, Wilhelm Wundt and the founding of scientific psychology, origins of scientific psychology in America, structuralism and functionalism, birth of the new applied psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviorism and neobehaviorism, the new profession of psychology, race and gender and the psychology of social change, and cognitive psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt In terms of a tangible landmark in the history of forensic psychology the most significant development was the founding of the first psychological laboratory in 1873 by Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig Germany.
Sommers and Satel do discuss the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, as well as Sigmund Freud's role in undermining the Judeo-Christian ethic, but they neglect to mention that it was intellectuals most Americans never heard of in the Mental Hygiene/New Education Movement who gave us today's therapeutic society--beginning with Wilhelm Wundt, the movement's founder-by-default.
 
 
 
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