THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOLOGY: From ancient myths to modern neuroscience – how our understanding of the mind has transformed

This is not a polite history lesson. This is the naked, ruthless truth about how humanity lied, guessed, manipulated, and occasionally discovered fragments of reality in its desperate attempt to understand the mind.

For most of history, psychology wasn’t science - it was myth.

Shamans blamed demons for madness.

Priests declared seizures a punishment from God.

Witches were burned for what we now call trauma.

This wasn’t healing. It was ignorance dressed as authority.

Then came philosophy the first cosmetic surgery for human confusion.

Plato spoke of souls, Aristotle wrote about logic, Eastern sages spoke of manas and suffering. But speculation is not science. These weren’t experiments. They were stories. Elegant, poetic, inspiring but mostly wrong.

And modern psychology? Don’t worship it either.

Freud sexualized everything.

Jung mystified everything.

Skinner reduced humans to rats in boxes.

Cognitive psychologists declared the brain a computer.

Neuroscientists reduced joy to dopamine, despair to serotonin.

Every generation of psychology has built myths first, truths later. And each myth shaped culture, politics, relationships, and power.

This book rips apart that entire timeline. Inside, you’ll see:

The Age of Illusions – how shamans, priests, and witch doctors became the first “psychologists.”

Philosophers as Healers – when Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, and others turned speculation into doctrine.

Freud’s Obsessions – how one man sexualized the mind and shocked morality.

Jung and the Shadow – mystical archetypes, suppressed desires, and collective myths.

Behaviourism – how Pavlov, Skinner, and Watson reduced humans to machines of reward and punishment.

The Cognitive Revolution – psychology borrows from computers and finally admits humans are irrational.

The Neuroscience Takeover – fMRI scans, neurotransmitters, and how sadness became “a chemical imbalance.”

Positive Psychology – the rise of happiness science, and the cult of “good vibes only.”

Dark Psychology – psychopathy, cults, dictators, and the manipulation industry.

The Digital Age – when algorithms became the new psychologists, hijacking your brain daily.

The Future – AI, neurohacking, and why psychology fears irrelevance.

But this book doesn’t stop with history. It also exposes the dirty hands of psychology:

Nazi eugenics and concentration camp experiments.

CIA’s MKUltra mind-control horrors.

Cambridge Analytica’s manipulation of elections.

Psychology has healed millions, yes. But it has also enslaved billions.

If you want a comforting fairy tale about noble scientists discovering eternal truths, close this book now.

If you want the raw, uncomfortable reality that psychology is as much about power, control, and manipulation as it is about healing keep reading.

Because psychology is not evolution.

It is survival.

And until you see how deeply it has been used to program you, you are still its prisoner.