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A course in Psychology

The people who built psychology as we practise it, in the order they arrived.

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Founded American psychology and, with Peirce, pragmatism; studied New Thought as 'mind-cure'.

Recast affirmation as subconscious programming for a postwar readership.

Logotherapy: meaning as the primary human drive, tested in the camps.

Ran the first double-blind trials in psychiatry and founded orthomolecular medicine with high-dose niacin.

Menninger researcher who founded clinical biofeedback and self-regulation therapy.

You Can Heal Your Life and Hay House globalised affirmation culture; its health claims are contested.

Prospect theory founded behavioural economics and modern policy 'nudging'.

Created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 1979; now standard in clinics worldwide.

Physician of addiction and trauma; reframed illness as a response to lived adversity.