Origins and History of Psychology

The course provides the student with an overview of the history and origins of psychology focusing on the major schools of psychology. The course supplies specific insights into the origins and history of scientific psychology from birth in the second half of the 19th Century with the study of sensations, emotions and intellectual activities. The course explores the various schools of thought with the greatest interpreters of psychological thought by describing the different methodological approaches, the main research hypotheses and relations with the historical and cultural context within which these psychological schools acted.