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Classics of Psychology


19th Century

Franz Brentano, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, 1874
Hermann Helmholtz, The Facts of Perception, 1878
Ernst Mach, Analysis of Sensations and relation of the Physical to the Psychical, 1886
Wilhelm Wundt, Outlines of Psychology, 1887


Early 20th Century

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Lecture on the Work of the Cerebral Hemisphere, 1924
Alfred Adler, Mind and Body, 1931
Sigmund Freud, 1932, The Anatomy of the Mental Personality
Sigmund Freud, Weltanschauung, 1932
Kurt Koffka, Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1932
Carl Jung, Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology, 1933
George Herbert Mead, The Objectivity of Perspectives, 1932


Late 20th Century

Jean Piaget, The Construction of Reality in the Child, 1955
Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology, 1968
R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience, 1967
Noam Chomsky, Language and Mind, 1968
B.F. Skinner, The Origins of Cognitive Thought, 1989