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    This document discusses the early history and definitions of psychology. It notes that in ancient times, exorcisms were sometimes used to treat mental illness by letting evil spirits escape the body. It then discusses how the term "psychology" was coined in 1590 to mean the study of the soul, combining the Greek words for soul and knowledge. Early thinkers like Aristotle viewed the soul as central to life. Modern definitions described psychology as the science of consciousness or of animal and human behavior.

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    This document discusses the early history and definitions of psychology. It notes that in ancient times, exorcisms were sometimes used to treat mental illness by letting evil spirits escape the body. It then discusses how the term "psychology" was coined in 1590 to mean the study of the soul, combining the Greek words for soul and knowledge. Early thinkers like Aristotle viewed the soul as central to life. Modern definitions described psychology as the science of consciousness or of animal and human behavior.

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    This document discusses the early history and definitions of psychology. It notes that in ancient times, exorcisms were sometimes used to treat mental illness by letting evil spirits escape the body. It then discusses how the term "psychology" was coined in 1590 to mean the study of the soul, combining the Greek words for soul and knowledge. Early thinkers like Aristotle viewed the soul as central to life. Modern definitions described psychology as the science of consciousness or of animal and human behavior.

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    patient. Thiswasdoneinorde<olet theevilspiritsordemonsescapefromthe


    suAerer’sbody. In 1590, Rudolf Goeckel used the term “psychology”. This word is the combination of two Greek words “ psyche” and “ logos”,
    the former means the

    “ soul” and the later “ discursiveknowledge”.Thusliterally, psychologymeansthe scienceof


    soul. Aristotle gave a very impo<ant place to soul in human life. Life has no meaning without soul. Psychology was also deOned as the “science of
    been deOned as the science of consciousness deOned by Wilhelm Wundt

    Modern physiologists and Watson, the founder of the behavioristschool of thought, deOned psychology

    as a
    science of behavior, both of animals and humans

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