The Story of Psychology by Todd Daniel
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-story-of-psychology/id428492554
A nice podcast. Actually it is a good overview of philosophy as well. Yet as psychology seems to be a spin-off from philosophy, the start from the very beginning seems to be appropriate. A very good audio quality. I could highly recommend it.
The content:
- The Story of Psyche and Eros
- The Pre-Socratics
- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- Epicureans and Stoics
- Philosophies and Religions of the Roman Empire
- A Brief History of Judaism
- Christianity in the Roman Empire
- Early Christianity and Accompanying Heresies
- The Fall of Rome-The Rise of Islam
- Early Chinese and Indian History
- Why Did Psychology Not Begin in China?
- The Middle Ages
- Frances Bacon and the Galileo Affair
- The Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
- Rene Descartes
- Epistomology – The Search for Knowledge
- The Enlightenment – Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke
- The Enlightenment – Berkeley, Leibniz; Bayle
- Metaphysics – Mind-Body Problem
- Ethics and Moralities
- Hume and Kant
- Early Medicine and Physiology
- The Romantic Philosophers – Rousseau, Goethe and Schopenhauer
- BONUS – A Dangerous Method
- Charles Darwin and Evolution
- Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
- The Romantic Philosophers – Rousseau, Goethe, Schopenhauer
- The Romantic Philosophers – Kierkegaard; Nietzsche
- BONUS – The Quotable Nietzsche
- The Beginnings of Psychology – Associationism
- The Beginnings of Psychology – Psychophysics
- Electricity and Physiology
- Beginnings of Psychology – The Brain as Organ of the Mind
- Beginnings of Psychology – Studies of the Brain
- BONUS – Free Will & Determinism
- A Brief History of Intelligence Testing
- Wilhelm Wundt and Voluntarism
- William James and Functionalism
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