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A history of psychology : main currents in psychological thought

Title: A history of psychology : main currents in psychological thought / Thomas Hardy Leahey.
Author: Leahey, Thomas Hardy.
Publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1997], ©1997.

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xxii, 490 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Covering such recent developments as the founding of the American Psychology Society and the impact of connectionism, the author provides a narrative history of psychology that includes the social, political and philosophical contexts which have shaped psychology and which psychology has shaped in turn. A full chapter on the philosophy of science and historiography as they relate to psychology completes the picture.
Detailed timelines appear on the end papers to further readers' understanding of the historical contexts of developments in psychology. Chapter ending bibliographies direct students to further reading as well as providing critical discussion of historiographic materials.

Subject

Psychology > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Psychology, History, and Science -- 2. The Classical World: Origins of Philosophy, Science, and Psychology -- 3. Spirituality and Individualism: The Middle Ages and Renaissance -- 4. Mechanization of the World Picture (1600-1700) -- 5. Reason and Reaction: The Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment -- 6. To the Threshold of Psychology: The Nineteenth Century -- 7. The Psychology of Consciousness -- 8. The Psychology of the Unconscious Mind -- 9. The Psychology of Adaptation (1855-1891) -- 10. The Conspiracy of Naturalism: From Consciousness to Behavior (1892-1912) -- 11. Psychology Takes Off: The Behaviorist Era (1913-1950) -- 12. Psychology Takes Off: Applied Psychology and Society (1896-1950) -- 13. Eclectic Psychology (1950-1958) -- 14. Years of Turmoil (1958-1978) -- 15. Contemporary Psychology.

ISBN

0135336058

LCCN

96008121
N6-941250

OCLC

ocm34576661

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries