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Title

Psychology in Britain : historical essays and personal reflections / edited by G.C. Bunn, A.D. Lovie and G.D. Richards.

Publication

Leicester : British Psychological Society, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• British Psychological Society
• Bunn, G. C. (Geoffrey C.)
• Lovie, A. D. (Alexander D.)
• Richards, Graham
• Richards, Graham, 1941-
• Science Museum (Great Britain)

Description

xiv, 495 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This text gathers together contributions from historians and distingished psychologists. The book investigates such topics as the prehistory of twentieth century psychology and the connections between psychology, war, education and politics.

Subject

• Psychology
• Psychology > Great Britain > History
• United Kingdom

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• History
• Personal Narrative

Note

• Published in association with the Science Museum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-487) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Geoffrey C. Bunn -- 1. Edward Cox, the Psychological Society of Great Britain (1875-1879) and the meanings of an institutional failure / Graham Richards -- 2. A question of 'peculiar importance': George Croom Robertson, Mind and the changing relationship between British psychology and philosophy / Francis Neary -- 3. James Sully and scientific psychology, 1870-1910 / Lyubov G. Gurjeva -- 4. Three steps to heaven: how the British Psychological Society attained its place in the sun / Sandy Lovie -- 5. The popular, the practical and the professional: psychological identities in Britain, 1901-1950 / Mathew Thomson -- 6. Psychology at war, 1914-1945 / Joanna Bourke -- 7. The psychology of memory / Alan Collins -- 8. Social psychology and social concern in 1930s Britain / Martin Roiser -- 9. Pear and his peers / Alan Costall -- 10. British psychology and psychoanalysis: the case of Susan Isaacs / Janet Sayers --^
• 11. Physiology and psychology, or brain and mind, in the age of C. S. Sherrington / Roger Smith -- 12. A 'precipitous degringolade'? The uncertain progress of British comparative psychology in the twentieth century / David Wilson -- 13. Science in the clinic: clinical psychology at the Maudsley / Maarten Derksen -- 14. 'Our friends electric': mechanical models of mind in postwar Britain / Rhodri Hayward -- 15. Behavioural approaches and the cultivation of competence / Karen Baistow -- 16. The development of social psychology in Oxford / Michael Argyle -- 17. Memories of memory research / Alan Baddeley -- 18. Purpose, personality, creativity: a computational adventure / Margaret A. Boden -- 19. The joys of psychology / David C. Duncan -- 20. The making of a psychologist: a late developer / Fay Fransella -- 21. Adventures of a maverick / Richard L. Gregory -- 22. The advent of the methodological critique / Rom Harre -- 23. Crossing cultures / Gustav Jahoda --^
• 24. Taking people seriously: psychology as a listening ear / John Newson and Elizabeth Newson -- 25. The emergence of developmental psychopathology / Michael Rutter -- 26. Creativity in research / Peter Wason.

ISBN

1854333321

OCLC

45683721

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library