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Psychology - History

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Images about Psychology - History

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  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Cupid presides over a group of naked women who sit separated from groups of yearning men; symbolising the passion of love. Etching by J. Audran after C. Gillot.
  • Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.
  • Joseph Millot Severn, a British phrenologist, examining a boy. Colour process print, c. 1929.
  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.
  • Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • A male figure and three phrenological heads. Wood engraving.
  • A head divided in two, the left half describing activities numbered 1 to 42. Lithograph by Frank Ellis, 1901.
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Works from the collections

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    Handbook of psychology. Vol. 1, History of psychology / Donald K. Freedheim, volume editor ; Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief.

    | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    German psychology of to-day : the empirical school / by Th. Ribot ; tr. from the 2d French ed. by James Mark Baldwin ; with a preface by James McCosh.

    Ribot, Th. (Théodule), 1839-1916. | Date: 1886
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    William James, his marginalia, personality and contribution / by A. A. Roback.

    Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965. | Date: [1942]
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    Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--.

    | Date: 1806 | Reference: 27670i
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    Psychologia w szkole lwowsko-warszawskiej / Twardowski [and others] ; wybór i opracowanie Teresa Rzepa.

    | Date: 1997
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Related topics

Phrenology
Head
Brain
Characters and characteristics
Physiognomy
Neurophysiology
Temperament
Phrenology
Skull
Emotions

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