A history of psychology : main currents in psychological thought
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A history of psychology : main currents in psychological thought
Prentice Hall, c1997
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Offering a lively and critical look at psychology's past, this complete narrative history from the Ancient Greeks to the present explores psychology in its philosophical, religious, historical, and literary contexts.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Background to psychology: psychology, history and science
- the classical world - origins of philosophy, science and psychology
- spirituality and individualism - the Middle Ages and renaissance
- the mechanization of the world picture (1600-1700)
- reason and reaction - the 18th-century enlightenment
- to the threshold of psychology - the 19th century. Part 2 Founding psychology: the psychology of consciousness
- the psychology of the unconscious mind
- the psychology of adaptation (1855-1891). Part 3 The rise of behaviourism: the conspiracy of naturalism - from consciousness to behaviour (1892-1912)
- psychology takes off - the behaviourist era (1913-1950)
- psychology takes off - psychology and society (1913-1950). Part 4 Psychology since World War II: eclectic psychology (1950-1958)
- years of turmoil (1958-1978)
- contemporary psychology.
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