The Story of Psychology

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 16, 2009 - Psychology - 896 pages

Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy.

 

Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries—the search for the true causes of our behavior.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Exploring the Universe Within
1
The Protopsychologists
3
The Conjecturers
11
The Scholars
36
FOUNDERS OF A NEW SCIENCE
105
Wundt
141
William James
159
Sigmund Freud
183
The Developmentalists
401
The Social Psychologists
459
The Perception Psychologists
505
The Emotion and Motivation Psychologists
553
The Cognitivists
590
The Psychotherapists
651
Users and Misusers of Psychology
703
Psychology Today
750

The Measurers
233
The Behaviorists
274
The Gestaltists
318
The Fissioning of Psychology
351
Notes
777
References
813
Acknowledgments
853
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About the author (2009)

Morton Hunt is an award winning science writer who has writen for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's among many other publications. He is the author of The Natural History of Love, and The Universe Within. He lives in Gladwyne, PA.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Story of Psychology
AuthorMorton Hunt
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN030756830X, 9780307568304
Length896 pages
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Psychology / History
Psychology / Reference
  
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