For centuries, the study of the human mind was the province of the philosopher alone. The soul, the origin of knowledge, the seat of consciousness, was argued both in the halls of Greek academies and in the silence of Indian ashrams. But the latter half of the 19th century saw an earthquake, the “great divorce” from armchair philosophy to the rigour and intensity of the laboratory.   The shift in perspective from philosophy to psychology was not just a name change from classical philosophy and applied psychology to a new way of thinking, which was led by Wilhelm Wundt in the West and which saw its first introduction in India in the laboratory of Narendra Nath Sen Gupta (N.N. Sen Gupta) at the University of Calcutta in 1916.   Read More: Is Psychology a Science, an Art, or a Philosophy?  The Wundtian Revolution: The Laboratory as Temple  The earliest formal birth of psychology is…