1. Freud: Revolution Of The Mind
Considered by many a revolutionary of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud was an intellect that began a scientific revolution, or paradigm shift, by introducing a concept called psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth century. A paradigm is a system of assumptions based on theories that a scientific community uses to define their field of study. When a paradigm shift occurs, the innovative concept is so unique that it is either rejected or received in totality. ... Freud's theory of psychoanalysis was in its day a "great blow to human self-esteem" (Leahey 67) and thus began a shift in psych...
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