History of Psychology Research Links

Research Links in The History of Psychology

[Pioneers in Germany and Austria] [American Pioneers]
[British Philosophers and Pioneers] [Darwin] [Pioneers in France and Switzerland] [Pioneers in Italy] [General]

German and Austrian Pioneers

Gustav Fechner and his Disciples
Sigmund Freud

The Freud Web Archives [from the A. A. Brill Library, NYC]
The Sigmund Freud Museum [Vienna, Austria]
The Interpretation of Dreams
FreudNet [The NY Psychoanalytic Institute]
Marc Fonda's Index of The Standard Edition
Burying Freud [contemporary debates on the status of Freud's theories]

Gall and Phrenology
G. E. Mueller
Hermann Helmholtz
H. Ebbinghaus, On Memory
Immanuel Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason

Emil Kraepelin Bibliography [English and German]
Oswald Külpe; [in German]
Wilhelm Wundt [Britannica]
German Psychological Institutes [in German]
Historical Summary of Gestalt Psychology

American Pioneers

William James

More William James [excellent James sources from Frank Pajares, Emory Univ.]
James' Varieties of Religious Experience
James and Functionalism

John Dewey's "Reflex Arc" Paper
James Mark Baldwin
E. L. Thorndike [Britannica]
Historical Outline of Behaviorism
Classics in Behaviorism [from York Univ.]
John B. Watson

Watson's career in advertising
More Watson

B. F. Skinner
Ivan Pavlov [not American, but very influential there]
Yerkes and Morgulis, "The Method of Pawlow in Animal Psychology" (1909) [from C. Green at York Univ.]

British Philosophers and Pioneers

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan
David Hume[a superb Hume Archive from Univ. Tennessee, Martin]

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding [6th Edition]
Of the Conduct of the Understanding

Francis Galton

and Scientific Racism
and Eugenics

John Stuart Mill,

Autobiography
The Subjection of Women

Darwin and the Animal Mind

Portrait
Biography
Darwin's home at Downe, England
Darwin's works

The Origin of Species [by Chapter]
Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Darwin's Precursors and Influences
Darwin Quotes
Darwin's Illness
Enter Evolution: History and Theory [U. C. Berkeley]
Thomas Malthus, Essay on Population
Lamarckianism in Psychology
Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919 [article]

French and Swiss Pioneers

Rene Descartes

Discourse on Method
General
Mind-Body Dualism
Biographical Information

Francoise Magendie
Carl Jung
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet's Biography
Historical Introduction to Binet's 1905 paper [from C. Green at York U.]
Binet's 1905 Work on Subnormal Intelligence

Jean Piaget

Biography
Bibliography

Italian Pioneers

Luigi Galvani
Camillo Golgi

Journals and Institutes

University of Leipzig [in German]
History of Psychology [Journal]
Theory and Psychology [Journal]
Isis [Journal]
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Bulletin of the History of Medicine [from Project Muse at Johns Hopkins Univ.]
Archives in Psychology [Univ. Akron]
APA Division 26 [The History of Psychology]
Cheiron [International Soc. for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences]

General

Classics in Psychology [excellent sources from Christopher Green at York Univ.]
Positivism
Time Line in the History of Psychology
Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James
History of Neuroscience [4000 B. C. -1981, A. D. from E. Chudler]
History of the prefrontal lobotomy
Famous Quotes in Psychology
Founders of Neurology
Brain Science Time Line
The Lifschitz Psychology Museum
Pioneers in Psychology [reference book]
MIT History of "Race" in Science Bibliography [Excellent sources]
Museum of the History of Psychological Instrumentation [Montclair State]
Barnard College Museum of the History of Experimental Psychology

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