The Bedside Book of Psychology: From Ancient Dream Therapy to Ecopsychology: 125 Historic Events and Big Ideas to Push the Limits of Your Knowledge

by Wade E. Pickren, Philip G. Zimbardo (Foreword by)

Overview

A fascinating exploration into the 125 most important milestones in psychology, all in one handy book perfect for keeping on your bedside table or carrying wherever you go.

Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you’ve always been interested in. With 125 concise, informative, and entertaining entries, The Bedside Book of Psychology explores the key theories, discoveries, and experiments, influential personalities, and seminal publications in the field over the millennia. Wade Pickren covers a wide range of topics and cultures—from ancient philosophies of psychotherapeutic well-being such as shamanism, to mesmerism, multiple personality disorder, Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Pavlov’s conditioning experiments, mirror neurons, positive psychology, sexual fluidity, and climate-crisis psychology—all in an accessible, conversational voice. Includes 75 black-and-white illustrations throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454942818
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	03/16/2021
Series:	Bedside Books , #2
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	322,495
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Wade E. Pickren earned his doctorate in psychology at the University of Florida, with concurrent training in the history of science. He is the coeditor of Review of General Psychology, and the author/editor of eleven books and of numerous peer-reviewed publications. Over the last twenty years, his scholarships has focused on questions of oppression and liberation with special emphases on race ethnicity, indigeneity, and, most recently, ecological impact. He is the author of The Psychology Book From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscienc, 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

c. 10,000 BCE Shamanism 6

528 BCE Buddha's Four Noble Truths 8

c. 500 BCE Confucian Psychology 10

c. 350 BCE Asclepius and the Art of Healing 12

c. 200 BCE Bhagavad Gita 14

c. 160 CE Humoral Theory 16

1025 Avicenna and the First Islamic Psychology 18

1517 Protestantism and the Psychological Self 20

1580 Montaigne's Essays 22

1637 Descartes on Mind and Body 24

1664 Cerebri Anatome: On the Brain and Behavior 26

1690 Tabula Rasa: The Psychology of Experience 28

1762 Rousseau's Natural Child 30

1766 Mesmerism 32

1832 Phrenology 34

1834 Fechner and the Just-Noticeable Difference (JND) 36

1843 The First Thinking Machine 38

1848 The Curious Case of Phineas Gage 40

1851 Bipolar Disorder and Creativity 42

1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species 44

1859 Mind-Cure 46

1861 Where Brain Functions Are Localized 48

1867 Prosopagnosia: The Inability to Recognize Faces 50

1871 Synesthesia: Numbers as Colors or Tuesday Is Red 52

1874 Nature vs. Nurture 54

1874 Psychology Becomes a Science 56

1880 Anna O.: Converting Psychological Distress into Physical Illness 58

1885 Multiple Personality Disorder 60

1886 Psychopathia Sexualis 62

1890 James's The Principles of Psychology 64

1898 Western Cultural Bias: The Torres Strait Expedition 66

1899 Psychoanalysis: The Talking Cure 68

1900 The Interpretation of Dreams Inaugurates the Century of Psychology 70

1902 Forensic Psychology 72

1903 Classical Conditioning: Pavlov's Bell 74

1904 Culture Determines What Counts as Mental Illness 76

1905 Binet and Simon: The First Intelligence Test 78

1908 Bleuler Initiates the Modern Study of the Schizophrenias 80

1909 Can Apes Learn Human Language? 82

1912 Gestalt Psychology: The Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts 84

1912 Experimental Neurosis; How Animals Can Be Made Crazy 86

1913 Jungian Psychology: Collective Unconscious and Psychological Growth 88

1913 The Lie Detector and the Golden Lasso of Truth 90

1914 Variability Hypothesis: Gender and Genius 92

1915 Transforming Western Psychology in India 94

1921 Army Intelligence Tests and Scientific Racism 96

1921 Projective Tests: The Rorschach Inkblots 98

1922 Feminine Psychology 100

1923 Capgras Syndrome 102

1924 Seeing the Brain at Work 104

1925 Somatotypes: Does Body Shape Reflect Our Personality? 106

1928 Cultural Relativism: Culture, Sex, and Coming of Age 108

1930 The Skinner Chamber 110

1932 Remembering and Forgetting 112

1934 Archetypes: Trickster, Sage, Hero, and Primordial Mother 114

1934 Zone of Proximal Development 116

1935 Thematic Apperception Test: Our Stories and Our Personality 118

1935 Psychosurgery 120

1936 Defense Mechanisms 122

1937 Turing Machine 124

1941 Direct Brain Stimulation and Experiential Hallucinations 126

1943 Cybernetics, Computers, and the Beginning of Cognitive Science 128

1943 The Doll Studies: Racism and Child Self-image 130

1943 Maslow Creates the Hierarchy of Needs 132

1943 Autism 134

1944 Sex Roles 136

1946 Logotherapy and the Search for Meaning 138

1947 Rogers's Client-Centered Therapy 140

1948 Neuroplasticity 142

1950 The Discovery of Stress 144

1950 Identity Crisis 146

1951 Conformity and Independence 148

1952 Bees Dancing, Egg-Rolling Birds, and the New Science of Ethology 150

1952 Lives in Progress: Psychology and the Stories of Our Lives 152

1953 The Case of H.M. 154

1953 REM and the Cycles of Sleep 156

1954 Pleasure and Pain 158

1954 Contact Hypothesis or How to Reduce Racism and Bias 160

1955 Cognitive Therapy 162

1955 Placebo Effect 164

1957 Antidepressant Medications 166

1957 Cognitive Dissonance: How Humans Maintain Psychological Consistency 168

1957 Hooker's Research: Homosexuality Is Not an Illness 170

1958 Mother Love 172

1959 Type A Personality 174

1960 The Visual Cliff 176

1961 Humanistic Psychology 178

1962 Right Brain, Left Brain 180

1963 Friedan's The Feminine Mystique 182

1963 Milgram's Obedience Experiments 184

1965 Head Start 186

1966 Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response 188

1967 Martin Luther King Jr., Psychology, and Social Justice 190

1969 Attachment Theory 192

1969 Five Stages of Grief 194

1970 Black Psychology 196

1970 The BITCH Test 198

1971 Stanford Prison Experiment 200

1973 Resilience 202

1974 Judgment Under Uncertainty: Human Rationality 204

1975 Sikolohiyang Pilipino 206

1975 Psychoneuroimmunology 208

1978 Theory of Mind 210

1979 Ecological Systems Theory 212

1979 Social Identity Theory 214

1980 Nurturant-Task Model of Leadership 216

1980 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) 218

1982 In a Different Voice: Women and Moral Development 220

1983 Multiple Intelligences 222

1989 Liberation Psychology 224

1990 Flow: The Experience of Optimal Living 226

1992 Mirror Neurons 228

1992 Social Ontogenesis: Culture and Development in Africa 230

1993 Mindfulness and Mind-Body Medicine 232

1995 Looping Effects of Human Kinds 234

1995 Stereotype Threat 236

1996 Autonomous-Relational Self 238

2000 Positive Psychology 240

2004 Emerging Adulthood 242

2008 Diamond's Sexual Fluidity 244

2013 The BRAIN Initiative 246

2014 Black Lives Matter 248

2017 Beyond the Gender Binary 250

2019 Traditional Knowledge-Indigenous Psychologies 252

2020 Climate Crisis Psychology 254

Further Reading and Sources 256

Index 261

Acknowledgments 266

Picture Credits 266