What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments, and discoveries. Beginning with ancient philosophies of well-being, it touches on such controversial topics as phrenology, sexual taboos, electroshock therapy, multiple personality disorder, and the nature of evil.

c. 10,000 BCE Shamanism -- c. 6500 BCE Trephination -- c. 5000 BCE palmistry -- c. 700 BCE Astropsychology -- 528 BCE Buddha's four noble truths -- c. 500 BCE Confucian psychology -- c. 350 BCE Aristotle's de anima -- c. 350 BCE Asclepius and the art of healing -- c. 200 BCE Ghagavad gita -- c. 160 CE Humoral theory -- c. 900 CE Sustenance for body and soul -- 1025 Canon of medicine -- 1357 Bedlam -- 1489 Da Vinci on neuroscience -- 1506 Psychology as a term -- 1517 The protestant self -- 1538 De anima et vita -- 1580 Montaigne's essays -- 1621 The anatomy of melancholy -- 1637 Mind-body dualism -- 1651 Leviathan -- 1664 Cerebri anatome -- 1690 Tabula rasa -- 1719 The familiar and the novel -- 1747 L'homme machine -- 1759 The theory of moral sentiments -- 1762 Rousseau's natural child -- 1766 Mesmerism -- 1775 Physiognomy -- 1781 Kant : Is psychology a science? -- 1788 Moral treatment -- 1801 Victor, the wild boy of Aveyron -- 1811 Bell-magendie law -- 1832 Phrenology comes to America -- 1834 Just-noticeable difference (JND) - 1835 Moral insanity (psychopathy) -- 1838 Munchausen syndrome -- 1840 Kindergarten -- 1843 Can machines think? -- 1848 The curious case of Phineas Gage -- 1851 Circular insanity -- 1859 Mind-cure -- 1859 On the Origin of Species -- 1861 Localization of brain function -- 1866 Down syndrome -- 1867 Prosopagnosia -- 1867 Sensory physiology -- 1871 Synesthesia -- 1872 Phantom limb pain -- 1874 Nature versus nurture -- 1874 Experimental psychology -- 1877 Baby biographies -- 1879 Mental chronometry -- 1880 Anna O. -- 1885 Tourette syndrome -- 1885 Multiple personality disorder -- 1886 Hysteria -- 1886 Experimental hypnosis -- 1886 Psychopathia sexualis -- 1890 The principles of psychology -- 1890 Psychological tests -- 1892 American Psychological Association -- 1896 Functional psychology -- 1897 Oedipus Complex -- 1898 Torres straits expedition -- 1898 The puzzle box -- 1899 Pelmanism -- 1899 Psychoanalysis -- 1900 The interpretation of dreams -- 1902 Psychology of testimony -- 1903 Psychotechnics -- 1903 Classical conditioning -- 1904 Adolescence -- 1904 Culture-bound syndromes -- 1905 Psychosexual development -- 1905 Binet-Simon test of mental levels -- 1906 The Emmanuel movement -- 1907 Birth order -- 1907 Inferiority complex -- 1907 Casa dei bambini -- 1908 Yerkes-Dodson Law -- 1908 The schizophrenias -- 1909 Apes and language -- 1911 Psychology of music -- 1912 Gestalt psychology -- 1912 Experimental Neurosis -- 1912 Eugenics and intelligence -- 1913 Jungian psychology -- 1913 The lie detector -- 1913 Behaviorism -- 1914 Variability hypothesis -- 1915 Shell shock -- 1915 Modern psychology in India -- 1918 American Classification of Mental Disorders (DSM) -- 1921 Army intelligence tests and racism -- 1921Projective tests (Rorschach inkblots) -- 1921 Neurotransmission -- 1922 Feminine psychology -- 1923 Capgras syndrome -- 1924 Cheaper by the dozen -- 1924 Brain imaging -- 1925 Somatypes -- 1926 Genetic epistemology -- 1927 Growth studies -- 1927 Hawthorne effect -- 1927 Zeigarnik effect -- 1928 cultural relativism -- 1929 Rattus norvegicus var. albinus (neobehaviorism) -- 1930 Operant chamber (Skinner box) -- 1931 Supertasters -- 1932 Remembering and forgetting -- 1933 Marienthal study -- 1934 Archetypes -- 1934 Zone of proximal development -- 1935 Thematic apperception test (TAT) -- 1935 Psychosurgery -- 1935 Psychological lifespace -- 1936 Defense mechanisms -- 1936 [B=f(P,E]=the lifespace -- 1937 Sensory deprivation -- 1937 Turing machine -- 1938 The Ames room -- 1938 Electroshock therapy -- 1939 Psychosomatic medicine -- 1939 The organism (mind and body) -- 1939 Wechsler-Bellevue intelligence scale -- 1939 Frustration and aggression -- 1940 Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) -- 1941 Psychical discharges (cortical stimulation) -- 1942 Behavior genetics -- 1943 Cybernetics -- 1943 The doll studies -- 1943 Hierarchy of needs -- 1943 Myers-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) -- 1943 Autism -- 1944 Personality and the behavior disorders -- 1944 Sex roles -- 1945 Failure to thrive -- 1946 Logotherapy -- 1947 Client-centered therapy -- 1948 Self-fulfilling prophecy -- 1948 Neuroplasticity -- 1948-1953 The Kinsey reports -- 1949 Big five personality factors -- 1949 The hero with a thousand faces -- 1950 Stress -- 1950 Antianxiety medications -- 1950 Identity crisis -- 1950 The authoritarian personality -- 1950 Family therapy -- 1950 Brainwashing -- 1951 Gestalt therapy -- 1951 Conformity and independence -- 1952 King Solomon's ring -- 1952 Antipsychotic medications -- 1952 Lives in progress -- 1953 The case of H.M. -- 1953 Cocktail party effect -- 1953 REM sleep -- 1954 Pleasure and pain centers -- 1954 Contact hypothesis -- 1954 Robbers cave (intergroup conflict) -- 1954 Teaching machine -- 1955 Cognitive therapy -- 1955 Placebo effect -- 1956 Short-term memory -- 1956 Double bind theory -- 1956 Logic theorist -- 1957 Antidepressant medications -- 1957 Cognitive dissonance -- 1957 The age of psychology -- 1957 Subliminal perception -- 1957 Homosexuality is not an illness -- 1958 fundamental attribution error -- 1958 (Surrogate) mother love -- 1958 Moral development -- 1958 Choosing the right stuff -- 1958 Systematic desensitization -- 1959 Type A personality -- 1959 The presentation of self in everyday life -- 1960 Burnout -- 1960 The visual cliff -- 1960 Center for cognitive studies -- 1961 Enriched environments -- 1961 Token economy -- 1961 Biofeedback -- 1961 Bobo Sikolohiyang Pilipino -- 1977 Biopsychosocial model of health -- 1977 Stages of adult cognition -- 1978 Seasons of life -- 1978 The golden cage -- 1978 Theory of mind -- 1979 Ecological systems theory -- 1979 Social identity theory -- 1979 Hardiness -- 1980 Nurtuant-task model of leadership -- 1980 DSM-III -- 1980 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- 1981 Stages of faith -- 1982 In a different voice -- 1983 Multiple intelligences -- 1984 The Flynn effect -- 1986 Touch therapy -- 1986 Triangular theory of love -- 1989 Liberation psychology -- 1990 Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) -- 1990 Flow -- 1992 Mirror neurons -- 1992 Social ontogenesis -- 1993 Mind-body medicine -- 1994 Misinformation effect -- 1995 Looping effects of human kinds -- 1995 Stereotype threat -- 1996 Autonomous-relations self -- 1996 The emotional brain -- 2000 Tend and befriend -- 2000 Positive psychology -- 2004 Emerging adulthood -- 2008 Sexual fluidity -- 2013 The BRAIN initiative.