The Evolution of Psychological Theory: A Critical History of Concepts and Presuppositions / Edition 2

by Richard Lowry

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ISBN-13:	9780202251356
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	10/31/1982
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

Deane H. Shapiro, Jr. is professor emeritus of psychiatry and human behavior, School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He is internationally recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the clinical, therapeutic and medical health care applications of meditation and his research and writing on meditation and self-control have been requested by universities and medical schools throughout the world.

Roger N. Walsh is a psychiatrist on the Faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Toward an Ecology of Brain and Beyond Ego: Readings in Transpersonal Psychology. His research interests include Asian philosophies and religions, ecology, meditation, and transpersonal psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART L THE NEW BEGINNINGS: 1650-1800 1. The Seventeenth Century 2. Mental Mechanism 3. Physiological Mechanism 4. The New Image of Human Nature PART II. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 5. The New German Mechanism 6. Psychophysics and the New Psychology 7. The Impact of Darwin 8. William James PART III. THE THRESHOLD OF THE PRESENT 9. Psychoanalysis I: Sources 10. Psychoanalysis II: The General Theory 11. Gestalt Theory: The New Physicalism 1890-1912 12. Behaviorism I: The Advent of the Behaviorists 13. Behaviorism II: The Full Flowering 14. Epilogue: Ideals and Over-Beliefs