Psychology and history /

"It is hoped that the reader will find here a serviceable summary of the major developments in social psychology and psychiatry which are of significance for the historian. For the psychologist and psychiatrist the chief importance of the volume will consist in a review of the efforts which hav...

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Main Author: Barnes, Harry Elmer, 1889-1968 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Century Co. : Random House UK, 1925.
Series:PsychBooks Collection
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"It is hoped that the reader will find here a serviceable summary of the major developments in social psychology and psychiatry which are of significance for the historian. For the psychologist and psychiatrist the chief importance of the volume will consist in a review of the efforts which have been made by historians and others to apply psychological methods and data to the interpretation of the history of man and human culture. If this brief work can accomplish anything in the way of bringing the psychologists and historians into a state of better understanding and closer cooperation, the expense of this reissue and reprinting will be amply justified"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
Item Description:"A reprinting ... of the chapter on ʻSome phases of the significance of psychology in the equipment of the historianʼ in my New history and the social studies."--Prefatory note.
Physical Description:1 online resource (195 pages) : portraits
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-195).