Evolving perspectives on the history of psychology /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[2002]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Methods of Historical Inquiry
- Ch. 1. History Without the Past / Thomas H. Leahey
- Ch. 2. Epistemological Debates, Feminist Voices: Science, Social Values, and the Study of Women / Stephanie Riger
- Ch. 3. The Crisis of Experimentalism in the 1920s: E. G. Boring and His Uses of History / John M. O'Donnell
- II. Establishing the Discipline of Psychology
- Ch. 4. A Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt / Arthur L. Blumenthal
- Ch. 5. Contributions of American Mental Philosophers to Psychology in the United States / Alfred H. Fuchs
- Ch. 6. William James and the Art of Human Understanding / David E. Leary
- Ch. 7. Testing the Limits of Sense and Science: American Experimental Psychologists Combat Spiritualism, 1880-1920 / Deborah J. Coon
- Ch. 8. Origins and Early Years of the American Psychological Association, 1890-1906 / Michael M. Sokal
- Ch. 9. The Origins of the Psychological Experiment as a Social Institution / Kurt Danziger
- III. Psychology as a Natural Science
- Ch. 10. The Mythical Revolutions of American Psychology / Thomas H. Leahey
- Ch. 11. From Machine to the Ghost Within: Pavlov's Transition From Digestive Physiology to Conditional Reflexes / Daniel P. Todes
- Ch. 12. Whatever Happened to Little Albert? / Benjamin Harris
- Ch. 13. On Prediction and Control: B. F. Skinner and the Technological Ideal of Science / Laurence D. Smith
- IV. Psychology as a Social and Behavioral Science
- Ch. 14. G. Stanley Hall: From Philosophy to Developmental Psychology / Sheldon H. White
- Ch. 15. The Mental Testing Community and Validity: A Prehistory / Richard T. Von Mayrhauser
- Ch. 16. Gordon Allport, Character, and the "Culture of Personality" / Ian A. M. Nicholson
- V. Psychology Between the World Wars
- Ch. 17. Unemployment, Politics, and the History of Organized Psychology / Lorenz J. Finison
- Ch. 18. Organized Industrial Psychology before Division 14: The ACP and the AAAP / Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
- Ch. 19. Cultural Contexts and Scientific Change in Psychology: Kurt Lewin in Iowa / Mitchell G. Ash
- Ch. 20. On Publishing Controversy: Norman R. F. Maier and the Genesis of Seizures / Donald A. Dewsbury
- VI. The Practices of Psychology
- Ch. 21. Clinical Psychology Seen Some 50 Years Later / David Shakow
- Ch. 22. An Asocial Psychology and a Misdirected Clinical Psychology / Seymour B. Sarason
- Ch. 23. The Return of the Repressed: Psychology's Problematic Relations With Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960 / Gail A. Hornstein
- VII. Psychology in the Public Interest
- Ch. 24. Assessing Psychology's Moral Heritage Through Our Neglected Utopias / Jill G. Morawski
- Ch. 25. Placing Women in the History of Psychology: The First American Women Psychologists / Laurel Furumoto and E. Scarborough
- Ch. 26. "The Defects of His Race": E. G. Boring and Antisemitism in American Psychology, 1923-1953 / Andrew S. Winston
- Ch. 27. Recontextualizing Kenneth B. Clark: An Afrocentric Perspective on the Paradoxical Legacy of a Model Psychologist-Activist / Layli Phillips.