How Did Wundt View Psychology?

During the mid-1800s, a German physiologist named Wilhelm Wundt was using scientific research methods to investigate reaction times. His book published in 1874, Principles of Physiological Psychology, outlined many of the major connections between the science of physiology and the study of human thought and behavior. He later opened the world’s first psychology lab in 1879 at the University of Leipzig. This event is generally considered the official start of psychology as a separate and distinct scientific discipline.
How did Wundt view psychology? He perceived the subject as the study of human consciousness and sought to apply experimental methods to studying internal mental processes. While his use of a process known as introspection is seen as unreliable and unscientific today, his
In the years ahead, our profession will be significantly impacted by the Affordable Care Act and the integration of mental health into primary care.
A rosy future was predicted for professional psychology during its halcyon years in the 1970s through the mid-1980s. However, significant changes in health care, following the advent of managed care in the late 1980s, quickly began to negatively affect its fortunes.
These have included a substantial increase in bachelor and masters level clinicians in counseling and social work coupled with the emergence of “split treatment.” Within this intervention model, sub-doctoral clinicians have steadily assumed greater responsibility for the psychosocial aspects of care while physician’s assistants, advanced practice nurses, primary care physicians and psychiatrists serve as medication prescribers. In addition, since the late 1980s managed care has been successful at nearly eviscerating assessment psychology which, historically, had been a protected clinical practice