Psychology:8 Key Breakthroughs That Define the Field

Yalım
6 min readMar 2, 2023

Psychology is trending. Most of us are seeing or have a friend who’s seeing a psychologist/therapist regularly. It seems like more and more of us are aware of the importance of our mental health and we’re actively trying to take better care of ourselves.

“Top 5 things to do to keep your mood up”. “How to beat your morning anxiety”. “Meditate and work out for a better state of mind”… There are many articles like these on medium.

It is undeniably true that we’re in a better situation in the field of psychology in 2023. But it wasn’t always like that.

Psychology is still a very young science. Like a baby who just learned to walk. Hopefully, it will develop at a faster pace than in the past since the stigmatization of psychological disorders is breaking.

  • People feel less shame to admit they’re suffering from depression or anxiety.

I mean this is true for the younger generations at least. Most of our parents still see going to a psychologist means seeing a shrink and that’s for “the crazy people”.

Illustration by Tommy Siegel https://www.instagram.com/tommysiegel/

Now, today I want to write the 8 major developments in the field of psychology.

8 Important Moments in the History of Psychology

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Yalım
Yalım

Written by Yalım

Psychology and psychoanalysis graduate. Interests: psychology, psychoanalysis, philosopy, politics, litterature, history, shitposting, music, games @Berlin

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