The Physiology and pathology of the mind

Author(s)

• Maudsley, Henry
• Thomson, Robert

Bibliographic Information

The Physiology and pathology of the mind

Henry Maudsley ; with a new introduction by Robert Thomson

（History of British psychology : the emergence of psychology）

Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1993

• : set

Note

Reprint. Originally published: 1867 (London : Macmillan and Co.)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

It might be thought that writings on psychological topics produced by British thinkers between 1840 and 1914 are today only of interest as intellectual antiques; amusing but no longer relevant. Such a view is quickly dissolved if one reads these works in full. They make the transition from folk psychology, theological views on human nature and metaphysical speculation to an empirical and scientific study of the human mind both boldly and effectively. However, they do much more than this - they contain observations and theoretical insights which are pertinent, some of which may have been overlooked through the intensive specialisation of the present age. Such men as Henry Maudsly, the psychiatrist, William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician or James Sully, the philosopher who introduced experimental psychology to London University with apparatus imported from Germany in 1897, remain informative and stimulating for the psychologist today who troubles to study them. For the general historian of the Victorian Age, these writers are also valuable sources for understanding the conflicts amongst the writers of those times.

Table of Contents

Psychological Principles [1874] George Henry Lewes The Logic of the Moral Sciences [1872] John Stuart Mill 236pp Principles of Mental Physiology [1876] William Benjamin Carpenter 812pp Seeing and Thinking [1890] Body and Mind [1874] Mental Development [1868] William Kingdon Clifford 230pp Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings [1886] Henry Maudsley 340pp Studies of Childhood [1903] James Sully 532pp Pleasure and Pain [1892] Alexander Bain Mental Imagines [1880] Francis Galton Co-relations and their Measurement [1888] Francis Galton Theories of Action [1928] William McDougall Character and Emotion [1896] Alexander Shand Types of Will [1897] Alexander Shand Emotions [1905] George Frederick Stout Modern Psychology [1893] James Ward

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Details

• NCID: BA21434545
• ISBN:
  • 0415092523
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: viii,xiv, 442 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Psychology -- Great Britain -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21433983