Examination of Clinical Psychology

 Clinical psychology was not discovered until 1879, at the University of Psychology, in Leipzig, Germany, by Wilhelm Wundt. Much has transpired before the discovery such as Theodor Fechner published The Elements of Psychophysics in 1860, and in 1874, Wilhelm Wundt published the Principles of Physiological Psychology. Both of the publications were needed to state the methods of physiology and physics as an answer to questions in psychology. Wundt believed research and studies were essential to know individual and group differences in sensation and perception, and the reaction time of humans. Although clinical psychology and psychiatry sometimes is often used interchangeably it is a difference in the role and work of the two. This paper will...