PSYC 360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Moritz Benedikt
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Evolution of this science and profession o. Several contemporary psychotherapies have their roots in the early 20th century, but they evolved dramatically over the past century and have been seamlessly woven into the warp and weft of many disparate approaches to improving mental health. Some remedies were and continue to be patently unscientific. The secularistic stream of psychological treatment was surprisingly scientific. Where hippocrates worked: hellenist physicians understood by their empirical investigations that the brain was not only the seat of knowledge and learning but also the source of depression, delirium, and madness. Psychotherapy as a domain of science in its modern sense did not clearly emerge until o the 18th century o. The unconscious was a key construct in the psychotherapies that emerged in the west in the 19th century. Studied the role of subliminal perceptions in our daily life. Coined the term dynamic to describe the forces operative in unconscious mentation.
