The word psychology is derived from these two Greek terms.
What are "psyche" and "logia"?
This system of theory and therapy proposed that unconscious thoughts and early childhood experiences shape behaviour.
What is psychoanalysis?
In Victorian England, this term referred to how some men opted to get rid of their wives.
What is the "madhouse divorce"?
This school of thought focuses on observable behaviour and learning through conditioning.
What is Behaviourism?
This American psychiatrist popularized and performed thousands of lobotomies in the 20th century.
Who is Walter Freeman?
William Wundt is often referred to as the "father" of this.
What is psychology?
He developed a theory about the four levels of knowledge.
Who is Aristotle?
The part of the unconscious mind attributed to instinctual desires.
What is the "Id"?
It's a treatment using water to help alleviate troubling physical or emotional symptoms.
What is hydrotherapy?
This scientist's work was originally concerned with digestive function in canines.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is one of the oldest documented surgical procedures performed on humans.
What is trepanation?
William Wundt was the first to establish this place.
What is an experimental psychology lab?
This philosopher believed that "eudaimonia" (happiness or wellbeing) motivates all human action, and that virtue is a form of knowledge connected to achieving it.
Who is Socrates?
The first Psychoanalytic Society was founded in this European city.
What is Vienna?
This movement gained support through films and books, such as "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Bell Jar".
What is the Anti-psychiatry movement?
This term refers to Jung’s idea of becoming your “true self.”
What is "individuation"?
This is the basis for modern IQ tests (and is still used today).
What is the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale?
Wundt's student Edward B. Titchener is considered responsible for this theoretical perspective.
What is "structuralism"?
He believed that the soul was divided into three parts: "desiring", "courageous" and "reasonable".
Who is Plato?
This term describes the technique pioneered by Sigmund Freud to help patients explore their thoughts.
What is "talking therapy" or the "talking cure"?
This movement aimed to close large psychiatric hospitals and shift care into community settings.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This Jungian concept refers to the repressed, darker aspects of the personality.
What is the "shadow"?
This movement promoted the idea of improving society by controlling reproduction, often leading to harmful policies like sterilization.
What is Eugenics?
It's a technique that trained observers used to study and report their own thoughts.
What is introspection?
This early medical model explained mental illness as an imbalance of bodily fluids.
What is humoral theory?

Who is Anna Freud?
According to CAMH, people with this mental illness may have co-occurring substance use disorder rates as high as 50%.
What is schizophrenia?
A formerly used term to describe professionals that studied mentally disturbed patients who felt isolated from others.
What is "alienist"?
This early approach to psychology tried to map personality traits onto bumps on the skull.
What is Phrenology?
A term referring to the study of artifacts of a culture, such as language.
What is "cultural psychology"?
According to this philosophy, a self-controlled, peaceful person can correctly perceive the world's natural order, and act on it accordingly.
What is "stoicism"?
This term refers to the hidden, symbolic meaning of a dream that is uncovered through techniques like free association.
What is "latent content"?
These treatments emerged as “wonder drugs” and revolutionized mental health care in the mid-20th century.
What is psychiatric medication (psychopharmaceuticals)?
This concept, demonstrated by the illusion of apparent motion, supports Gestalt psychology’s idea that perception is holistic, not just a direct copy of sensory input.
What is the "phi phenomenon"?
This famous 1973 study revealed flaws in psychiatric diagnosis by having healthy individuals fake hearing voices and still be admitted to hospitals and labeled as mentally ill.
What is the Rosenhan experiment?
The only woman to be awarded a PhD under Wundt, influential in visual perception, intelligence testing and advertising.
Who is Anna Berliner?