Hvem er krediteret med at være den første person til at bruge talking therapy?
Sigmund Freud
History of psychotherapy
Selv om det videnskabelige samfund til sidst forkastede alle disse metoder, var akademiske psykologer heller ikke interesseret i alvorlige former for psykisk sygdom. Det område var allerede blevet behandlet af de nye områder psykiatri og neurologi inden for asylbevægelsen og brugen af moralsk terapi. Det var først i slutningen af det 19. århundrede, omkring det tidspunkt, hvor Sigmund Freud først udviklede sin "talende kur" i Wien, at den første videnskabeligt kliniske anvendelse af psykologien begyndte - på University of Pennsylvania, for at hjælpe børn med indlæringsvanskeligheder.
Sigmund Freud
History of psychotherapy
While the scientific community eventually came to reject all of these methods, academic psychologists also were not concerned with serious forms of mental illness. That area was already being addressed by the developing fields of psychiatry and neurology within the asylum movement and the use of moral therapy. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century, around the time when Sigmund Freud was first developing his "talking cure" in Vienna, that the first scientifically clinical application of psychology began—at the University of Pennsylvania, to help children with learning disabilities.
History of psychotherapy