Darwin, the Greatest Psychologist
Sigmund Freud’s biographer, Ernest Jones, was mistaken in calling his subject “the Darwin of the mind.” Darwin himself was the Darwin of the mind; Freud was his great popularizer.
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CORONADO, CALIFORNIA – Most people do not think of Charles Darwin as a psychologist. In fact, his work revolutionized the field. Before Darwin, philosophical speculation shaped our psychological understanding. But even great philosophers – Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Locke, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others – could only describe current mental events and behaviors; they could not explain their causes.