Today in Psychology (18 July 1921), Aaron Beck was born. Cited as one of the most influential psychotherapists of all time, Beck profoundly influenced our understanding of the psychopathology of depression and suicide. www.all-about-psychology.com/psychotherap... #psychotherapy #psychology

Today in Psychology (17 July 1902), Carl Jung's M.D. degree was conferred by the University of Zurich. Jung's dissertation topic was the psychology and pathology of occult phenomena based upon his cousin's alleged mediumistic abilities. www.all-about-psychology.com/carl_jung.html #psychology

Today in Psychology (16 July 1902), Alexander Luria was born. A founding figure within cultural-historical psychology, Luria is also renowned for his pioneering work within neuropsychology, in particular his systematic research into the functional organization of memory and speech within the brain.

Today in Psychology (15th July 1918), Brenda Langford Milner was born. A pioneer of neuropsychology, Milner’s landmark work with H.M. transformed our understanding of memory and showed that the brain is not governed by a single memory system. www.all-about-psychology.com/neuropsychol...

Today in Psychology (14th July 1913), Mary Henle was born. A Gestalt psychology pioneer, Henle wrote the first laboratory manual on the subject and conducted influential research on perception, motivation, problem solving and logic. www.all-about-psychology.com/women-in-psy... #Psychology

Today in Psychology (13th July 1922), Fred Fiedler was born. A pioneering researcher in the field of Industrial and organizational psychology, Fiedler is best known for his ground breaking contingency model of leadership. www.all-about-psychology.com/industrial-o... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (12th July 1813), Claude Bernard was born. Bernard's ideas helped lay the foundation for homeostasis, a concept adopted by leading behaviorists such as J.B Watson as an explanatory mechanism for motivated behavior. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology

Today in Psychology (11th July 1943), Howard Gardner was born. Gardner is renowned for his ground breaking theory of Multiple Intelligences, which he first published details of in his trailblazing book 'Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences' in 1983. #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (10th July 1873), Théodore Simon was born. Along with Alfred Binet, Simon created and introduced the first scale of general intelligence (The Binet-Simon Scale) based on a series of thirty tests designed to measure the intellectual development of young children. #psychology

Today in Psychology (8th July 1893), Fritz Perls was born. With Laura Perls, he founded Gestalt therapy, a present-focused approach that became one of the major alternatives to traditional psychoanalysis. www.all-about-psychology.com/counseling-p... #psychology #GestaltTherapy #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (7th July 1851), Lillien Jane Martin was born. A pioneering expert in the field of gerontology, Martin founded the first ever counseling center established for senior citizens in 1929. www.all-about-psychology.com/women-in-psy... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (6th July 1877), Robert Ogden was born. Ogden helped introduce Gestalt psychology to the USA, including publishing Kurt Koffka’s landmark 1922 paper in Psychological Bulletin. www.all-about-psychology.com/gestalt-psyc... #GestaltPsychology #Psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (5th July 1908), Pauline Snedden Sears was born. A pioneer in the study of child development, Sears conducted ground breaking research into self-esteem and motivation among children. www.all-about-psychology.com/women-in-psy... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (4th July 1841), William T. Preyer was born. A pioneer in the field of developmental and child psychology, Preyer published the first comprehensive book on the topic 'The Mind of the Child' in 1881. www.all-about-psychology.com/child-psycho... #psychology

Today in Psychology (3rd July 1880), the first issue of the original series of the journal science was published. Among the eminent psychologists to be featured in this landmark publication were Hugo Munsterberg, E. B. Titchener, J. McKeen Cattell, J. Mark Baldwin and John Dewey. #psychology

Today in Psychology (2 July 1922), Asher R. Pacht was born. A pioneer in correctional psychology, his work helped reshape mental health services for offenders and psychology’s role in the criminal justice system. www.all-about-psychology.com/forensic-psy... #ForensicPsychology #Psychology

Today in Psychology (1st July 1870), The Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich was founded. Among the eminent figures to train there were Eugen Bleuler, Adolf Meyer, Karl Abraham, Ernest Jones, Hermann Rorschach and Carl Jung. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #CarlJung #psychology

Today in the History of Psychology (29th June 1892), in a letter to his mentor Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud makes his first documented reference to 'das unbewusste' (the unconscious). www.all-about-psychology.com/sigmund-freu... #SigmundFreud #psychology #PsychologyStudent #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (28th June 1867), Lightner Witmer was born. Witmer established the first 'psychological clinic' in the USA and is widely credited with introducing the term 'clinical psychology.' www.all-about-psychology.com/clinical-psy... #ClinicalPsychology #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (27th June 1921), Robert Baker was born. A pioneer of anomalistic psychology, Baker explored psychological explanations for paranormal experiences such as ghost sightings and alien abductions. www.all-about-psychology.com/paranormal-p... #Psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (26th June 1878), under the supervision of William James at Harvard University, G. Stanley Hall became the first person to be awarded a doctorate in psychology in the United States. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology: 25 June 1987, Anne Anastasi received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan for her pioneering work in differential psychology and psychological testing. www.all-about-psychology.com/psychology-t... #Psychology #PsychologyFacts #PsychologyTests

Today in Psych (24th June 1795), Ernst Weber was born. Renowned for his pioneering work on touch & human perception, Weber's scientifically driven methods of inquiry had a profound influence on the development of experimental psychology. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology

Today in the History of Psychology (23rd June 1894), Alfred Kinsey was born. A pioneering researcher within the field of human sexuality, Kinsey's landmark studies were as ground breaking as they were controversial. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (21st June 1880), Arnold Gesell was born. A world renowned pioneer in the field of child development, Gesell founded The Clinic of Child Development at Yale in 1911 and served as director there until 1948. www.all-about-psychology.com/child-psycho... #ChildPsychology

Today in Psychology (20th June 1859), Christian von Ehrenfels was born. Ehrenfels ground breaking publication, 'On Gestalt Qualities' published in 1890 proved hugely influential in helping to lay the foundation of Gestalt psychology. www.all-about-psychology.com/gestalt-theo... #psychology

Today in Psychology (19th June 1623), Blaise Pascal was born. Pascal's work on laws of probability and prediction became firmly rooted within experimental design and statistics in psychology. www.all-about-psychology.com/experimental... #psychology #probability

Today in Psychology (17th June 1919), William K. Estes was born. A pioneer in the field of mathematical psychology, Estes is renowned for his ground breaking work on the science of learning and memory. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology #PsychologyFacts

Today in Psychology (16th June 1863), Friedrich Schumann was born. A physicist turned psychologist, Schumann conducted influential research within the field of visual perception, in particular experimental work on space perception. www.all-about-psychology.com/history-of-p... #psychology

Today in Psychology (15th June 1902), Erik Erikson was born. Erikson is best known for his psychosocial theory that a person's sense of identity is shaped through encountering a specific psychological struggle at every major stage of life from infancy to old age. #psychoanalysis #psychology