As early as the birth of psychology, psychology has already entered China, and the time is about 1920 (psychology is separated from philosophy as a science). But since then, due to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and other reasons, it has been in a state of stagnation. Subsequently, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, because psychology was regarded as an idealistic discipline, it was suppressed on a large scale, and only Normal University retained this discipline because of educational psychology. The development of psychology in China was after 1980. With the reform and opening up and other reasons, psychology has been paid attention to again, so psychology has been greatly developed.
Modern psychology began with the reform of education system and the establishment of new schools in the late Qing Dynasty. 19 18 Chen Daqi published the Outline of Psychology, which is the earliest book named after psychology in China.
The birth signs of various psychology
First, the birth of scientific psychology:
1879, Feng Te established a psychology laboratory in Leipzig university.
Second, child psychology and developmental psychology:
Phulel published Child Psychology at 1882.
1957 The American Yearbook of Psychology replaced child psychology with developmental psychology.
Third, psychometrics: After the success of the industrial revolution, it developed in Europe in the19th century.
1882 Gao Erdun (British biologist and psychologist) studied the heritability of differences, and put forward that people's different temperament characteristics and intelligence are inherited according to different physical characteristics. The method of measuring the difference is designed, which lays a statistical foundation for psychological test.
1890, Cartel published Psychometrics and Measurement, and put forward the concept of norm.
1905, Binet.Alfred and his assistant Simon published a new method to diagnose children's mental abnormality, and designed the first psychological test scale with 30 questions.
Fourth, social psychology:
1908 American sociologist Ross's Social Psychology and British psychologist McDougall William's Introduction to Social Psychology.
Fifth, counseling psychology: psychological measurement provides conditions for counseling.
Psychological counseling originated from clinical psychology which was born in 1896.
1896, witmer opened a child behavior correction center for students at the University of Pennsylvania.
1907 David gave behavior guidance to prevent students from having behavior problems.
1908 Parsons, the rise of career guidance movement.
1953 the American psychological association has stipulated the training standards for psychological consultants.
1954 founded the Journal of Counseling Psychology.
1955 issued a psychological counseling expert certificate.
China 1986 The First Psychological Counseling Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital.
In August, 20001year, the national professional standards for psychological counselors were released.
Six, abnormal psychology:
In ancient times, since 400 BC, the theory of body fluid put forward by Hippocrates, a western ancient Greek doctor, showed the embryonic form of the inference that "psychology is the function of the brain". After the birth of natural science, abnormal psychology is linked with brain function, and it is more inclined to treat abnormal psychology with materialistic thinking.