Psychology lies at the intersection of many other different disciplines, including biology, medicine, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and artificial intelligence (AI). For example, neuropsychology is allied with biology, since the aim is to map different areas of the brain and explain how each underpins different brain functions like memory or language. Other branches of psychology are more closely connected with medicine. Health psychologists help people manage disease and pain. Similarly, clinical psychologists help alleviate the suffering caused by mental disorders.

  History of Psychology

The history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behaviour dates back to the Ancient Greeks... Psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879, when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to Psychological research in Leipzig, Germany (see neuro-psychological test and neuro-psychological assessment).