Description :
This concise text discusses the history of modern psychology from the late nineteenth century to the end of twentieth century. Among other topics, the book also examines the emergence of a new branch called cognitive psychology.
KEY FEATURES
The book attempts to place recent history of psychology in the context of the general social and political culture in which it occurs.
The text presents the material mainly as an organizational account of psychological processes.
The book traces the evolution
of experimental and theoretical psychology.
Content :
CONTENTS
Preface • Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Modern Mind: Its History and Current Use
2. Aristotle to Alexander Bain: Prolegomena of Modern Psychology
3. The Social Context for the New Psychology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
4. The Birth of Modern Psychology: Wilhelm Wundt and William James
5. The “Discovery” of the Unconscious: Imageless Thought
6. The Early Twentieth Century: Consolidation in Europe and Behaviorism in America
7. The Interwar Years: Psychology Matures and Theories Abound
8. The Destruction of Psychology in Germany, 1933 to 1945
9. The Success of Gestalt Theory and Its Translation to the
United States
10. A New Age of Psychology at the End of World War II
11. Two Case Histories from the New Psychology
12. Old Problems and New Directions at the End of the Century
13. The Clouded Crystal Ball:
Psychology Today and Tomorrow
References
Name Index • Subject Index No other Books by the same author | |
AARON CHATTERJI
