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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
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1980.

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Description
xii, 431 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Offering a look at psychology's past, this narrative history - from the Ancient Greeks to the present - explores psychology in its philosophical, religious, historical, and literary contexts.
Subject
  • Psychology > History
  • Psychological Theory
  • Psychology > history
  • Psychology
  • Geschichte
  • Psychologie
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Background to psychology: The classical world. Spirituality and individualism. The mechanization of the world picture, 1600-1700. Reason and reaction. To the threshold of psychology -- Founding psychology: The starting point. The psychology of the unconscious mind. The psychology of adaptation -- Modern psychology: Classical behaviorism. Neobehaviorism. Challenge and change, 1945-1960. revolt and reform, 1960-1970 -- Retrospect and prospect: Retrospect. Prospect.
ISBN
  • 013391755X
  • 9780133917550
LCCN
79024332
OCLC
  • ocm05706895
  • 5706895
  • SCSB-17522
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library