A more recent development in the cognitive field is “positive psychology,” which has sought to reorient the discipline away from mental problems to t… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

As the early memory researcher Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) wrote, “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.” He meant that people have been thinking about human thought, emotion, intelligence, and behavior for thousands of years, but as a discipline based on facts rather than speculation psychology is still in its infancy.

Truly creative people work for work’s own sake, and if they make a public discovery or become famous that is a bonus.

Cognitive therapy’s revolutionary idea is that depression is not an emotional disorder. The bad feelings we have in depression all stem from negative thoughts, therefore treatment must be about challenging and changing those thoughts.