Famous Psychologists 

According to Robert Feldman, Margaret Floy Washburn was the first ever woman to earn a doctoral degree. This made her famous because during the era of the 18th century no married woman during that time would have been a professor or serve as a teacher (Feldman, 2016). She was no married a chance that made her use her research skills and exercises her prolific writing. She was also best known for a motor theory development and the experimental work she carried out in animal behaviors. In 1900 she was in charge of the psychology department as the only woman. Her professional career has made her famous as a major figure in the United States for psychology (Feldman, 2016). Despite her experimental activities in behavior she became interested and got herself involved with the mental processes that have contributed to the school of psychology. She also has significant contributions to psychology school of thought which is behaviorism, functionalism, structuralism and Gestalt psychology.

Karen Horney was born in Germany in 1885. She is known as a psychoanalyst but late in her career, she practiced in the United States. She is famously known for her feminist psychology that was meant to respond to penis envy theory by Freud (Hitchcock, 2004). In this theory, she significantly differs with Freud on the psychology of women and men due to her ability to trace back the cultural and the societal differences rather than on biology. She is also known to be true on sexuality theories with instinct orientation of psychoanalysis. She has also been credited for the theory of Neurosis as she believes it is a continuous process (Hitchcock, 2004). Her analysis has continuously been used in psychology.

 

 

Reference

FELDMAN, R. O. B. E. R. T. (2016). UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY. Place of publication not identified: MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION.

Hitchcock, S. T. (2004). Karen Horney: Pioneer of Feminine Psychology. New York: Infobase Pub.