Famous Psychologists

Carl Gustav Jung standing in front of the Burghölzli Clinic, Zurich (cca 1910). Psychology Corner starts this year with an article presenting the main Swiss contributors to the field of psychology. Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Hermann Rorschach, and Max Lüscher have changed the way we understand and approach theory, development, and diagnosis in psychology.

Jean-Martin Charcot giving a lecture on hysteria at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. Une leçon à la Salpétrière by M. André Brouillet. Psychology Corner started its journey by presenting an article titled ‘Famous Romanian Psychologists.’ I decided to make a habit of this and occasionally choose a nationality and dedicate an article to its most famous psychologists

Psychology, as a distinct scientific field, was introduced to Romania in 1893 by Eduard Gruber, but what seemed to be a promising start was cut short in the 1970s by the former political regime. For almost 20 years, Romanian psychologists had to choose between giving up psychology (and perhaps reorienting themselves to philosophy and educational