PSY 5025 Psychology of Experience
Early psychologists including Wundt and William James presumed that psychology meant a psychology of experience (which they called consciousness). This was also true of Freud and Psychoanalysis. It was not true for many years in America thanks to the popularity of John B. Watson and all those who were swayed by the school of Behaviorism. Besides Psychoanalysis, Experience was only readmitted to American Psychology after WWII when Humanistic Psychology and the Cognitive Revolution made it fashionable again. This is a seminar-discussion course considering several major sources in Early Psychology, William James, Humanistic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Csikszentmihalyi.