An Historical Introduction To Modern Psychology

by Gardner Murphy

Overview

This is Volume XXII of thirty-eight in a collection on General Psychology. Originally published in 1928, this study looks at the developments since the nineteenth century in literary and philosophic psychology underwent profound changes, chiefly as a result of the progress of biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415210348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/10/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gardner Murphy

Table of Contents

Part I The Pre-Experimental Period; 1. The Intellectual Background of Seventeenth-Century Psychology; 2. The Psychology of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 3. The Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century; 4. Some Intellectual Antecedents of Experimental Psychology; Part II From Weber's Experiments to the Age of Wundt; 5. The Beginnings of Experimental Psychology; 6. British Psychology in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 7. The Theory of Evolution; 8. Psychiatry from Pinel and Mesmer to Charcot; 9. German Physiological Psychology before Wundt; ch0010 Psychology in the Age of Wundt; Part III Contemporary Psychology; 11. Early Studies of Memory; 12. William James; 13. Structural and Functional Types of Psychology; 14. The Thought Processes; 15. Experiments on the Acquisition of Skill; 16. Behaviourism; 17. Child Psychology; 18. Social Psychology and the Psychology of Religion; 19. Psychoanalysis; 20. Instinct; 21. The Measurement of Intelligence; 22. Personality; 23. Contemporary Physiological Psychology; 24. A Summary and an Interpretation; Part IV Supplement Contemporary German Psychology, HEINRICH KLUVER; 25. Contemporary German Psychology as a "Natural Science"; 26. Contemporary German Psychology as a "Cultural Science";