A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity

by Thomas Hardy Leahey

Overview

A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society. Featuring extended treatment of important movements such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, the textbook approaches the material from an integrative rather than wholly linear perspective. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology’s technical concerns as a science and profession.

This new edition features expanded attention on psychoanalysis after its founding as well as new developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics. Throughout, the book strengthens its exploration of psychological ideas and the cultures in which they developed and reinforces the connections between psychology, modernism, and postmodernism. The textbook covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology, and is appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317228486
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	564
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Thomas Hardy Leahey is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He has been President of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the Society for the History of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Founding Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Table of Contents

Part I. Situating Psychology 1. Introduction Part II. The Premodern World 2. The Legacy of Ancient Greece (EEA–323 BCE) 3. Antiquity (323 BCE–1000 CE) 4. The End of the Premodern World (1000–1600 CE) Part III. Constructing the Modern World 5. The Scientific Revolution 6. The Enlightenment (1700–1815) 7. The Ascent of Science (1815–1914) Part IV. Founding Psychology 8. The Psychology of Consciousness 9. The Psychology of the Unconscious 10. The Psychology of Adaptation Part V. Psychological Science in the Modern World 11. Behaviorism (1892–1956) 12. Cognitive Science (1956–2016) 13. The Rise of Applied Psychology (1892–1939) 14. The Psychological Society (1940–2016)

Editorial Reviews

'This edition provides an astute, critical, thematic history emphasizing epistemological and integrative perspectives in psychoanalysis, scientific, applied and professional psychology, modernism, postmodernism, behavioral economics, and embodied cognition. For anyone interested in the history of psychology, this is a must read.' —Susan Gordon, Assistant Professor of Psychology, National University, USA

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