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Psychology is the science that describes and interprets several psychical phenomena to correct
any deviations or psychical diseases. Therefore the Psychology studies, starting from approaches
also very different between them, the functioning of the human mind, that is the part of our nature
in which the psychical functions, as the intelligence, the thought, the emotions, the sense of the
time, the memory, etc., reside. The Contemporary Scientific Psychology is born in Lipsia in 1878,
when William Wundt founded a laboratory of Experimental Psychology. He considered the
Psychology as a "science of laboratory", and therefore having specific problems and experimental
methods different from the problems connected to abstract speculations, typical of the traditional
Psychology of philosophical derivation. The first conference of Psychology is held in Paris, in the
1889 and legitimates the scientific nature of this discipline. The modern Psychology is born and
imposes itself in an historical period in which the crisis of Philosophy and the development of
sciences as the Sociology, the Biology and the Evoluzionism,
were remarkable. Wundt had the brilliant intuition to closely connect the psychical processes
to those cerebral ones, asserting their mutual infuence. Innumerable psychological currents,
beginning from Pragmatism and Functionalism, were born in the birthday of this discipline that
continually evolves and that has borne a remarkable aid to the psychophyisical equilibrium of the
man, subject today, mentally, to several dangerous solicitations and stimuli for his health.
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