Article ID: CBB001420016

The Emergence and Development of Bekhterev's Psychoreflexology in Relation to Wundt's Experimental Psychology (2014)

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After its foundation, the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology at Leipzig University became an international center for psychological research, attracting students from all over the world. The Russian physiologist and psychiatrist Vladimir Bekhterev (1857--1927) was one of Wilhelm Wundt's students in 1885, and after returning to Russia he continued enthusiastically his experimental research on mental phenomena. However, he gradually distanced himself from Wundt's psychological project and developed a new concept of psychology: the so-called Objective Psychology or Psychoreflexology. The goal of this paper is to analyze Bekhterev's position in relation to Wundt's experimental psychology, by showing how the former came to reject the latter's conception of psychology. The results indicate that Bekhterev's development of a philosophical program, including his growing interest in establishing a new Weltanschauung is the main reason behind his divergence with Wundt, which is reflected in his conception of scientific psychology. Despite this, Wundt remained alive in Bekhterev's mind as an ideal counterpoint.

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Authors & Contributors
Schmidgen, Henning
Araujo, Saulo de Freitas
Ayala, Christopher
Blumenthal, Arthur L.
Borawski, Steven
Bringmann, Wolfgang C.
Journals
History of Psychology
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch fur Antike und Mittelalter
History of Psychiatry
History of the Human Sciences
HOPOS
Publishers
Karl-Marx-Universität
Kluwer Academic
MIT Press
Concepts
Psychology
Experimental psychology
Experiments and experimentation
Societies; institutions; academies
Cognition
Senses and sensation; perception
People
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich
James, William
Darwin, Charles Robert
Friedrich, Max
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
Places
Germany
Russia
United States
Soviet Union
France
Institutions
Universität Leipzig
Society of Experimental Psychologists
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