So, I'm currently in Psychology 101 in College, and we're learning about many of the early Psychologists, of course the most prominent being Freud. But, I'm curious how a different timeline might affect the field of psychology. For reference, Freudian Psychology, a psychology where just about everything is inherently sexual, came about during the Victorian Era, where sexual desires were repressed and all that. So knowing this, what would early Psychology look like in a world where we were no sexually repressive, and in fact were sexually promiscuous. Or perhaps a world where the European powers were more prone to fight than they were during the age of Freud. Or any other infinite possibilities.
Alternate History affects on early Psychology
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Most theories on how things work are accepted because no-one has thought of anything more accurate / easier to understand at that point in time. for instance, the 4 elements (fire, water &C) idea is obviously wrong but in ancient times no-one knew about stuff like hydrogen.
That basically means that any old fool can come along in an ATL and say "the way we think is determined by how much alcohol we consume per week" or something ridiculous like that. As long as it lines up with enough evidence to seem reasonable (and this does, as people who spend half their lives drunk never think clearly), it will be accepted by the populace until something else comes along that better lines up with the evidence they have access to at that later time.
Because there is no way to predict what stupid ideas people might come up with (and new theories are almost always seen as stupid when they are first created), there's really no way to predict what will happen in these sorts of fields.
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That basically means that any old fool can come along in an ATL and say "the way we think is determined by how much alcohol we consume per week" or something ridiculous like that. As long as it lines up with enough evidence to seem reasonable (and this does, as people who spend half their lives drunk never think clearly), it will be accepted by the populace until something else comes along that better lines up with the evidence they have access to at that later time.
Because there is no way to predict what stupid ideas people might come up with (and new theories are almost always seen as stupid when they are first created), there's really no way to predict what will happen in these sorts of fields.
- BNC