Official site of the APA. Includes contact information for committee members, list of fellows, and selected links.

Searchable by date or keyword.

Links to history of Psychology content.

Describes the history of one of the best known high security hospital. Covers the changes of patient care, treatment, legal questions and living conditions. Abstracts of book by Tony Black.

Information about the section.

Concerned with the history of psychology and related studies. Includes meetings and list of officers.

Milestones in the treatment of the mentally ill, history of psychological treatments and institutions, and notable persons and publications, from the Middle Ages through 1997.

Short essays introductory to 48 works central to the history of scientific psychology. Each essay places a given work in its intellectual context, summarizes its basic content, and assesses its general significance.

Many full texts available online.

ESHHS brings together individuals interested in the history of psychology, anthropology, sociology, economy, and other human sciences.

Photos and brief descriptions of sites in Europe associated with distinguished contributors to psychological science.

The Forum for History of Human Science is an interest group within the History of Science Society, which brings together historians of economics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and medicine.

Discusses Plato and Freud's description of the soul (psyche) in terms of an internal conflict for authority over the individual. Elaborates this into an understanding of internal politics.

Information on the life and works of this important pioneer of experimental/physiological psychology.

Gestalt theory and Gestalt psychology resources - including a Gestalt Theory glossary, brief biographies of the founders of Gestalt Theory, and links.

Gateway and information about an Internet forum for announcements, inquiries and discussion on access to historical sources and their use and interpretation for all persons interested in neuroscience history.

Useful links page from the Cheiron site.

Bulletin board for posting questions and answers about these topics.

Home page of the print journal, with information and tables of contents.

from Alfred D. Kornfeld of Eastern Connecticut State University.

Rather an eccentric selection of key events in the history of Psychology and related fields, from c.580 B.C. to 1997, and with something of a Brazilian bias. May be useful for beginners to get themselves oriented in the field.

A timeline of the development of our understanding of the brain, from 4000 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

The History and Theory of Psychology eprints archive. Gives access to online versions of articles in these areas. Registered users may also deposit appropriate material.

Account of an important episode in the development of the Behaviorist movement in psychology.

Profiles and works of researchers and observers who made important contributions to the field of comparative animal cognition.

Dedicated to promoting interest, education and research in the history of the neurosciences.

Discusses the psychologist's childhood, university days, work at John Hopkins, infidelity scandal, advertising job, farm life and later acknowledgments. Includes copies of original photos of people and manuscripts.

Home page of the longest established print journal in the field, with tables of contents back to 1996.

Includes anatomical drawings by Leonardo and extracts from his writings in brain function, plus Medieval and Renaissance diagrams of the brain, its ventricles, and their function in cognition.

Mary Whiton Calkins "The Mother of Psychology" attended Harvard at the turn of the 20th century. Help Kalamazoo College students obtain the doctorate that is rightfully hers. Site contains some biographical links.

Brazilian e-journal. In Portuguese and English.

A detailed timeline running from 4000 B.C. to 1997, plus a list of useful reference works and links.

By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College.

Based at the UCLA Brain Research Institute. Identifies, collects, and preserves primary source material of twentieth century American neuroscience.

Printed by Sage Publications. Includes archived abstracts, mission statement and manuscript submission information.

On the establishment of psychology as an academic discipline in Britain, and the career of T.H. Pear, first professor of psychology at Manchester University. By Alan Costall.

Eight chapters describing the rise of standardized testing in animal, school, vocational, and military settings.

A gateway to events, associations, opportunities, and Internet resources for history and historians of basic, clinical, and behavioral neuroscience.

Information about this Catholic disciple of Freud and Adler who made his own distinctive contributions to psychodynamic theory. Also provides information on related thinkers Anna Terruwe, Conrad W. Baars, and Louis Jugnet.

Association established for the purpose of promoting the Gestalt-theoretical perspective in research and practice. Includes articles, information, resources, and conferences.

Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditatione', with study notes and glossary

Although now generally considerd pseudoscience, phrenology, the popular Victorian science of the mind and brain, had an enormous historical impact on the development of psychology and neuroscience.

from the University of Dayton. Resources on many figures in the history of psychology, and history of psychology trivia.

Etext written by a professor in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University, PA.

Information on Knight Dunlap, a significant, but largely forgotten pioneer of American Psychology.

Classic 1956 paper by George A. Miller that helped spark the Cognitive Revolution.

Life and work of the founder of Gestalt Psychology, with Wertheimer links.

As well as being a repository for online versions of material by the influential American social psychologist, George Herbert Mead (1863-1931), this site also archives work related to his, including that of many important early 20th century American psychologists, including J.R. Angell, J.M. Baldwin, J. Dewey, W. James, W.I. Thomas, & E.B. Titchener.

An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke. (More thinkers from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are promised.)

A resource for the history of the human sciences (especially psychology) and the "experimentalization of life," archiving historical texts and images, as well as new essays. Site is in English, but much of the archived material is in German.

Information on and readings from pioneering American psychologist William James.

Discussion forum and live chat devoted to William James' works.

Brief biographies and bibliographies of some female psychologists of various races, ages, and sexual orientations.