1817 GROHMANN, Johann Christian August (1769 – 1847)
Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.
Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12943
1851 LÖBISCH, Johann Elias
Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 10748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12944
1877 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
A biographical sketch of an infant.
The first significant paper on child psychology, written from Darwin's personal notes of his observations of the development of his first born son, William Erasmus. The text is available from Darwin Online at this link.
GMN 9481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11665
1895 BALDWIN, James Mark (1861 – 1934)
The mental development of the child and the race.
A central text in the development of social psychology in North America; now also considered a pioneering study of adaptive learning, and in this sense a precursor to research in artificial intelligence. Digital facsi…
GMN 9320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11502
1903 BINET, Alfred (1857 – 1911)
L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.
Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…
GMN 13067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15319
1923 ISSERLIS, Leon (1881 – 1966); WOOD, Frances Chick (1883 – 1919)
The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.
GMN 12588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14827
1925 GESELL, Arnold Lucius (1880 – 1961)
The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.
"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…
GMN 10610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12803
1934 GESELL, Arnold Lucius (1880 – 1961)
An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)
Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…
GMN 10609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12802
1966 –1980 FREUD, Anna (1895 – 1982)
The writings of Anna Freud. 8 vols.
GMN 9588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11775
