<P> 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 was n'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 . </P>
<P> 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 was n'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 . </P>
who is credited with being the first person to use talking therapy
who is credited with being the first person to use talking therapy
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud