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Fall Asleep to the History of Psychology | Freud, Jung & the Human Mind

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Fall asleep to the history of psychology — a calm journey through humanity’s attempts to understand the mind, from ancient philosophy and the first psychology laboratories to Freud, Jung, behaviourism, memory, learning and modern psychological science. Tonight, we follow some of the questions that helped build psychology. How did philosophers begin thinking about memory, perception and consciousness? What changed when psychology entered the laboratory? Why did Freud place so much importance on the unconscious? How did Jung depart from him? What did behaviourists learn by studying observable behaviour? And how did psychologists eventually return to memory, thou...