History of American psychology.

The present volume is an attempt to bridge the gulf between pre-experimental and experimental epochs in America, and to fill in the gaps, to some extent, in both the too brief and the deliberately circumscribed histories of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Library Publishers, [1952]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. In the dominion of physics and the empire of theology. In the nebulous colonial days. The secularization of psychology. Scottish realism comes to America. Philadelphia in the foreground. The age of independent textbooks. German influences. Impetus from the natural sciences. Transition period of the '80's. Treatises on the will
  • Part II. Psychology comes of age. The new psychology. The psychological laboratory comes to America. Psychology at Harvard and William James. G. Stanley Hall and the genetic method. Cattell and Baldwin. The structuralism of Titchener. Hugo Münsterberg
  • Part III. The schools. The rise of functionalism. Psychology out of its mind. Dynamic psychology. William McDougall and Hormic psychology. Woodworth, Lewin and other dynamic psychologists. Freud and psychoanalysis. Gestalt psychology. Operationism. Factorial analysis and general semantics. Neo-scholastic psychology
  • Part IV. Growth of branches. The phenomenal expansion of American psychology.