Listed below are links on the history of psychology, including timelines, online archives, biographical pages, and more. For additional biographies (of contemporary as well as historic figures), see Wikipedia. If you wish to suggest any additions to the biographical pages, click here to send the name of the historical figure and the web address of the page to be added.  Table of Contents (click on a category of interest) General Resources:    Megasites and General Overviews    Timelines    Historical Accounts    Professional Societies    Research Journals Archives, Bibliographies, and Texts:    Historical Archives and Online Museums    Bibliographies    Online Texts Biographical Pages:    Historical Figures in Social Psychology    Other Historical Figures

General Resources

Megasites and General Overviews: The History of Psychology Web Site This Week in the History of Psychology (podcast series) History of Psychology (WWW Virtual Library) Victorian Science: An Overview Today in the History of Psychology Take A History of Psychology Quiz Resources in the History of Psychology Timelines: History of Psychology: Contemporary Foundations History of Psychology: 387 BC to Present International History of Psychology: TimeLine of Psychological Ideas A Chronology of Noteworthy Events in American Psychology Milestones in Neuroscience Research Historical Accounts: Bedlam (exhibition from the Museum of London) A Brief History of the Lobotomy (Shippensburg University) History of Intelligence Theory and Testing (Indiana University) History of Cognitive Psychology (History of Psychology Archives) The Pre-History of Cognitive Science (UC--Santa Barbara) Oral History of Gestalt Therapy (from the Gestalt Therapy Page) Cursed by Eugenics (Time magazine article) Professional Societies: Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the APA) History and Philosophy of Psychology Section (Canadian Psych. Assn.) Cheiron: Intl Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences History of Science Society Research Journals: History of Psychology (Society for the History of Psychology) History of the Human Sciences History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Archives, Bibliographies, and Texts

Historical Archives and Online Museums: Archives of the History of American Psychology (Univ. of Akron) History of Psychology Archives (Muskingum College) History of Psychology Collection (Barnard College) Museum of the History of Psych. Instrumentation (Montclair State Univ.) Bibliographies: Resource Guide: History of Psychology Classics in the History of Psychology Online Texts: Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century

Biographical Pages

Historical Figures in Social Psychology: Allport, Floyd Henry Allport, Gordon Willard Inventing Personality: Gordon Allport and the Science of Selfhood Asch, Solomon The Legacy of Solomon Asch Brown, Roger William Campbell, Donald Thomas Festinger, Leon Leon Festinger: Biographical Memoirs Janis, Irving (The Groupthink of Irving Janis) Theoretical Framework of Groupthink Groupthink Cartoon Le Bon, Gustave Lewin, Kurt Kurt Lewin Institute Milgram, Stanley The Man Who Shocked the World Milgram Reenactment (of obedience studies) Schachter, Stanley Sherif, Muzafer Social Judgment Theory Essays in Honor of Muzafer Sherif Other Historical Figures: Adler, Alfred Adler, Alfred Bettelheim, Bruno Binet, Alfred Brunswik, Egon The Brunswik Society Burt, Sir Cyril Calkins, Mary Whiton Cattell, James McKeen Charcot, Jean-Martin Dewey, John Center for Dewey Studies John Dewey Links John Dewey and His Creed Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dunlap, Knight Ebbinghaus, Hermann Erikson, Erik Homburger Erikson, Erik Homburger Eysenck, Hans Fechner, Gustav Theodor Gustav Fechner Links Frankl, Viktor Freud, Anna Anna Freud Bibliography Freud, Sigmund The Freud Web Who Is the Real Freud? Sigmund Freud Museum--Vienna Freud Museum of London Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture Fromm, Erich Fromm-Reichmann, Frieda Hall, Granville Stanley Hollingworth, Leta Stetter Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A Biography Horney, Karen Horney, Karen Horney, Karen Hull, Clark Leonard James, William Jung, Carl Jung, Carl The C.J. Jung Page Kelly, George Alexander Kelly, George Alexander Klein, Melanie The Melanie Klein Trust Melanie Klein Bibliography Kohler, Wolfgang Maslow, Abraham Maslow, Abraham Official Abraham Maslow Publications Site May, Rollo Mead, George Herbert Mead Project Müller, Georg Elias Munsterberg, Hugo Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich Perls, Frederick (Fritz) Piaget, Jean Jean Piaget Society Jean Piaget Archives Rank, Otto Reich, Wilhelm Rogers, Carl Rogers, Carl Rorschach, Hermann International Rorschach Society Rush, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Benjamin Rush, M.D.: A Bibliographic Guide Skinner, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Burrhus Frederic B. F. Skinner: A Brief Autobiography B.F. Skinner Foundation Terman, Lewis Madison Terman, Lewis Madison Thorndike, Edward Lee Titchener, Edward Bradford Tolman, Edward Chace von Helmholtz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich Watson, John Broadus Watson, John Broadus Watson, John Broadus Wundt, Wilhelm

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