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ten folders · thirty-four files
1874–1890
017 · 018 · 019Beginnings
Folder 01
Before psychology had schools, it had to prove that it could exist: that something can be found out about the mind which is neither philosophy nor physiology.
1900–1945
001 · 002 · 003 · 016 · 033Psychoanalysis
Folder 02
Psychoanalysis holds that a considerable part of what people do follows reasons they have no access to themselves. It did not come out of a laboratory but out of a consulting room — out of listening to patients whose complaints had no neurological explanation.
1912–1939
020 · 021 · 022Gestalt & Field
Folder 03
Against the dissectors, around 1912, a Berlin school took the field whose watchword fits in one sentence: the whole is other than the sum of its parts.
1903–1938
004 · 005 · 006Behaviorism
Folder 04
Behaviourism was an emergency brake. Psychology around 1900 worked with trained introspection, and when two laboratories reached different results there was no procedure to decide between them.
1936–1978
023 · 024 · 025 · 034Development
Folder 05
That children think differently from adults — not less, but differently — is this folder's discovery. Piaget turned children's wrong answers into a research programme and his own three children into the field's most famous series of observations; Bowlby bro…
1974–1992
007 · 008 · 009 · 032Cognitive Psychology
Folder 06
In the mid-1950s the forbidden topics came back. The occasion was less an argument than a tool: the computer supplied a vocabulary for talking about inner processes without having to experience them — input, storage, processing, output.
1951–1971
010 · 011 · 012Social Psychology
Folder 07
Social psychology studies how the thinking, feeling and acting of individual people are shaped by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. It shifts the explanation of behaviour away from fixed traits of the person and towards the situation the p…
1936–1961
026 · 027 · 028Learning & Personality
Folder 08
Between behaviourism's reflex arc and psychoanalysis's art of interpretation lies the question this folder carries: what makes a person this person — and how does that change?
1943–1951
013 · 014 · 015Humanistic Psychology
Folder 09
Humanistic psychology understood itself as a third force: not psychoanalysis, which thinks from conflict, and not behaviourism, which thinks from the reflex.
1957–1977
029 · 030 · 031Clinic & Therapy
Folder 10
At the end of this archive stands the question it was about all along: does this help anyone? Three files, three answers from practice.