Psychology

American social critics in the 1970s seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. But they missed the psychoanalytic breakthrough that championed it as the wellspring of ambition, creativity, and empathy. Elizabeth Lunbeck's history opens a new view on the central questions faced by the self struggling amid the crosscurrents of modernity.

Provides biographical information and critical analysis of the influences and reception of people who have made a significant contribution to the field of psychology.

This reissued edition (originally published by McGraw-Hill in 1985) of "A Century of Psychology as Science" assesses the accomplishments, status and prospects of psychology at the end of its first century as a science, while offering a new postscript. The essays reflect the 43 contributors' specific disciplines, yet speak to the broader thematic issue of "fundamental psychology". Among the fields addressed are sensory processes and perception, learning, motivation, emotion, cognition, development, personality and social psychology. This work reviews psychology's first century and aims to provide a fresh insight on psychology as it enters its second century.

Through carefully selected and extensively annotated original sources, Foundations of Psychological Thought: A History of Psychology deals with some of the most important issues and ideas in the history of psychological thought. Defining questions such as "How do we distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior?" and "How much of our behavior is biologically determined?" are posed throughout the book. By providing context, background, and interpretation, the editors make the material more accessible to contemporary students. The editors' annotations, found throughout the readings, provide straightforward information about the original text–definitions, translations, underlying assumptions, important contexts, and related ideas. While the readings stretch back as far as the seventeenth century, there are also articles from the past thirty years, showing the evolution of ideas and emphasizing that these topics are still very much with us.

This text, appropriate for upper level courses, is a historical overview of the development of modern psychology in the last 100 years to the present day. A History of Modern Psychology covers the rise and fall of the schools of psychological thought in terms of philosophy and physiology, the impact of intellectual, social, economic, and political forces on the discipline, and the contributions of significant individuals. Features: * Shows how ideas, theories and movements evolved and revolted against earlier work and developed independently. * Discusses the impact of contextual forces, such as the intellectual climate (Zeitgeist), the social and economic forces, wars, and prejudice and discrimination. * Introduces the lives of important scholars, researchers, writers, teachers, and systematizers in the history of psychology, noting how their work was influenced by the times as well as their own experiences. * Traces the development of animal psychology, particularly the changing views of the nature of animal consciousness and the accepted methods for studying the problem. New to this edition: * A new chapter on race and gender issues has been added and additional notes on the contributions of black and women psychologists are found throughout the book. * Language has been clarified and topics have been added, expanded, or revised based on the latest biographical sources and scholarly research. * The discussion of machines as a metaphor for human psychological, mental, and cognitive functioning has been expanded to include medical and mechanical engineering and the computer.

A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context, Second Edition, is a comprehensive history of psychology tracing psychological thought from ancient times through late twentieth century developments. Opening chapters on historiography and philosophical problems in psychology provide important pedagogical tools for orienting the reader to materials covered in the rest of the text. Though this book covers most of the standard topics usually covered in courses in history and systems of psychology, it devotes more attention than most texts to the intellectual trends that preceded the formal founding of psychology. Major classic systems of psychological thought are covered along with key developments in the history of basic and applied psychology. A final epilogue sketches major trends in psychology in the latter half of the twentieth century. Extensively tested in undergraduate and graduate classes in the history of psychology, this text is designed to be "user friendly" in terms of clarity of exposition and availability of study aids such as glossaries, pronunciation keys for difficult names, and discussion questions following each chapter. A library of multiple-choice items constructed by William Douglas Woody is available to instructors. The library of text items also includes helpful suggestions for video materials that complement the various chapters.

While acknowledging their major debt to Europeans like Freud, Piaget, Erickson, Lewin, and Jung, American psychologists generally concentrated on developments in American psychology. And this tendency prevails in spite of the fact that innovations—in sport psychology and clinical neuropsychology, for example—have continued to come from abroad. International Psychology is a much-needed exposition of the state of psychology in forty-five countries, including the Soviet Union and the United States. Emphasizing the period from 1960 to the present, and surveying the training, research, and practice of psychologists on six continents, this volume introduces a widely dispersed network of occupational kinfolk, many of whom have scant knowledge of one another.

This third volume in a series devoted to luminaries in the history of psychology--features chapter authors who are themselves highly visible and eminent scholars. They provide glimpses of the giants who shaped modern cognitive and behavioral science, and shed new light on their contributions and personalities, often with a touch of humor or whimsy and with fresh personal insights. The animated style, carefully selected details, and lively perspective make the people, ideas, and controversies in the history of psychology come alive. The fields touched on in this and other volumes cover all of the subfields of psychology. As such, all volumes of Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology will be of interest to psychologists, as well as scholars in related fields. The resourceful teacher could use a selection of chapters as supplementary readings to enhance almost any course in the discipline. The major purpose of these books is to provide source materials for students and their teachers in undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of psychology. Each of the five volumes in this series contains different profiles thereby bringing more than 100 of the pioneers in psychology more vividly to life.

Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient times: the nature of mind, the sources of knowledge and belief, the nature of the self and ethics, the best way to lead our lives, the question of free will. In this book, John Malone examines these ideas in the writings of thinkers from antiquity to the present day and argues for their importance not just as precursors of modern views but as ideas that are frequently better than current ones. We can get good advice, he writes, from the writings of the best thinkers of the past. Pythagoras, Thales, Plato, Protagoras, Aristotle, Diogenes, and Epictetus all offer tried and tested ideas on how we should lead our lives and on the treatment of psychopathology -- as do Berkeley, Hume, John Stuart Mill, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, and B. F. Skinner. Malone begins with the naturalistic and mystical strains of early Greek thought, moves on to Platonism and the world of Forms (and considers parallels between the thought of Plato and Freud), and discusses'Ancient Self-Help Therapies'(including Epicureanism). He investigates the psychological insights of Enlightenment thinkers including Francis Bacon and Galileo, Locke's and Kant's theories of experience, and Darwin's evolutionary thinking. He charts the rise of modern psychology and the beginning of'biological psychology.'He examines the work of Wundt, Titchener, Freud, Peirce, and James, among others, and describes the ideas of behaviorism, Gestalt psychology, and cognitive science. Malone's history offers both breadth and depth, an engaging style and rigorous scholarship, demonstrating vividly the relevance of the great historical psychological thinkers.

In this lively book, John Macnamara shows how a number of important thinkers through the ages have approached problems of mental representation and the acquisition of knowledge. He discusses the relevance of these approaches to modern cognitive psychology, focusing on central themes that he believes have strongly influenced modern psychology. This is not a neutral historical survey, but a vehicle for Macnamara's compelling and provocative arguments on the relevance and worth of certain aspects of psychological and philosophical thought. The historical figures discussed are quite varied—from Plato to Thomas Jefferson to Sigmund Freud—and include numerous Christian philosophers such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. The book assumes no previous background in the subject matter; Macnamara often simplifies abstract concepts via homespun examples (many using his beloved dog, Freddie). This is a quirky, engaging book, as well as the last work by a highly influential figure in cognitive psychology.