A History of Psychology: Main Currents in Psychological Thought - Couverture rigide

Leahey, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0133879453 ISBN 13 : 9780133879452

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

This wide-ranging account of psychology places the study in a cultural context, from the beginning of human history to the present. New features of this third edition include material on Reductionism and folk psychology, and the treatment of the psychology of consciousness. Other new material covers recent work on Freud and on Connectionism.

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Provides a narrative history of psychology.

 

A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity begins tracking psychology from the development of folk psychology as the key adaptation of humans at the dawn of history. It then traces the Classical, medieval, and early modern periods to present day psychology. The text covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology.

 

Although theoretical and empirical arguments inside psychology about the nature of mind and behavior are not neglected, A History of Psychology shows how psychology’s development has been shaped by social, economic, and political forces external to it, and, in turn, how the mature psychology of the late 20th century has begun to shape the society in which it arose. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the technical concerns of psychology as a science and profession. 

 

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this text, readers will be able to:

• Know the events in the history of scientific, applied, and professional psychology
• Understand how psychology’s development was shaped by external forces
• Describe how psychology has and continues to shape society

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Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas Hardy Leahey graduated in 1974 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology.  Assistant professor to Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia, 1974-2009, now Professor Emeritus.  Has been President of APA Divisions 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and Division 26, History of Psychology.  Also author of Learning and Cognition (with R. J. Harris) and Psychology’s Occult Doubles (with Grace Evans Leahey) as well as numerous scientific, historical, and philosophical articles and book reviews.  He resides in Powhatan, VA with 2 cats, 3 robo-hamsters, and 1 gerbil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0133879453
• ISBN 13: 9780133879452
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible