Bruce K. Alexander, Curtis P. Shelton

A History of Psychology in Western Civilization

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Produktbeschreibung

A fresh and radical analysis of psychology's scholarly roots and its potential for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 959g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007291
• ISBN-10: 1107007291
• Artikelnr.: 41252875

Autorenporträt

Bruce K. Alexander is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: two histories of Western psychology
2. Rationalism: Plato and the 'just' person
3. Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self
4. Christianity: St Augustine and the incomplete soul
5. Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine
6. Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality
7. Evolution: Charles Darwin and Homo sapiens as a work in progress
8. Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics
9. Re-imagining psychology.