John D. Greenwood (City University of New York)

A Conceptual History of Psychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of a critical conceptual history of psychology that traces the continuities and discontinuities in scientific thought about human psychology and behaviour from the Ancient Greeks to the modern day, including mini-histories of the development of abnormal and clinical psychology. For scholars and graduate students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 574
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666801
• ISBN-10: 1107666805
• Artikelnr.: 42768167

Autorenporträt

John D. Greenwood is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he currently serves in the PhD Programs in Philosophy and Psychology. He is the author of four books, What Happened to the Social In American Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Realism, Identity and Emotion (1994), Relations and Representations (1991) and Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science (1989), three edited volumes and over fifty articles. His main research interests are in the history and philosophy of social and psychological science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. History, science, and psychology
2. Ancient Greek science and psychology
3. Rome and the medieval period
4. The scientific revolution
5. The Newtonian psychologists
6. Physiology and psychology
7. Theories of evolution
8. Psychology in Germany
9. Psychology in America: the early years
10. Functionalism, behaviorism, and mental testing
11. Neobehaviorism, radical behaviorism, and problems of behaviorism
12. The cognitive revolution
13. Abnormal and clinical psychology
Epilogue: the past and future of scientific psychology.