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Author: Bringmann, Wolfgang G.; Luck, Helmut E.; Miller, Rudolf; Early, Charles E.
Title: A Pictorial History of Psychology - Hardcover
With over 100 chapters by eminent contributors from around the world, this book examines a broad array of psychology's key figures, ideas, and movements from ancient times to the present. Its nearly 700 illustrations, including previously unpublished rarities from personal collections, international archives, and libraries, make A Pictorial History of Psychology the most extensive book of its kind. The reader will discover surprising connections between psychology and a variety of disciplines--from the visual arts and literature to philosophy and the physical sciences--and will explore areas of application with contemporary relevance, including sports, advertising, the military, industry, and traffic. Clear organization, expert writing, and a strong visual emphasis make this book accessible to all levels of readers. Combining a comprehensive structure with specific close-focus treatments, it will attract the interest of the beginner and expert alike.
ISBN: 0-86715-292-3
Table of Contents:
I. The Beginnings 1. Aristotle and Psychology 2. The Inner Senses: A Medieval Theory of Cognitive Functioning in the Ventricles of the Brain 3. Psychologic, Psychology 4. Christian Thomasius: A Man Ahead of His Time 5. The Witchcraze in 17th-Century Europe 6. Physiognomy, Phrenology and Non-Verbal Communication 7. Goethe as an Early Behavior Therapist 8. An 18th-Century Baby Biography 9. Gnothi Sauton: The Journal of Experiential Psychology 10. Johannes Muller and the Principle of Sensory Metamorphos 11. Charles Darwin and Psychology 12. Galton's Hat and the Invention of Intelligence Tests 13. Metaphors of Memory: The Case of Photography 14. Brentano: Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint 15. William James: America's Premier Psychologist 16. Parapsychology 17. Clever Hans: Fact or Fiction
II. From Psychophysics to Behaviorism 18. Wilhelm von Humboldt and the German University 19. Jan Evangelista Purkyne 20. Ernst Heinrich Weber 21. Fechner and Lotze 22. Hermann von Helmholtz 23. Time-Measuring Apparatus in Psychology 24. Wilhelm Wundt 25. Wundt's Laboratories
26. Max Friedrich and the Origins of Experimental Psychology
27. Wilhelm Wundt: The American Connection
28. Wundt's Volkerpsychologie
29. Edward Bradford Titchener
30. Wilhelm Wirth and the Psychophysical Seminar of Leipzig University
31. Hermann Ebbinghaus
32. G. E. Muller: The Third Pillar of Experimental Psychology
33. The Wurzburg School of Psychology
34. The Experimental Analysis of Volition
35. Margaret F. Washburn
36. Can Apes Learn a Human Language?
37. Behaviorism
38. B. F. Skinner: Maverick, Inventor, Behaviorist, Critic
39. A Purposive Behaviorist: Edward C. Tolman
40. The Heretical Psychology of Egon Brunswik
41. Psychological Experiments
III. Gestalt Psychology
42. Ernst Mach and the Perception of Movement
43. Carl Stumpf
44. The Graz School of Gestalt Psychology
45. Gertrude Stein, William James, and Pablo Picasso's Cubism
46. The Psychologist Robert Musil
47. The Berlin School of Gestalt Psychology
48. Gestalt Psychology at Frankfurt University
49. Wolfgang Kohler
50. Kurt Lewin--Film Maker
51. Roger Barker's Ecological Psychology
IV. Human Development and Personality
52. The Mental Life of Newborn Children
53. G. Stanley Hall and American Psychology
54. Alfred Binet and the Quest for Testing Higher Mental Functioning
55. The Beginnings of Educational Psychology in Germany
56. William Stern
57. Maria Montessori
58. Lewis A. Terman: Architect for a Psychologically Stratified Society
59. Martha Muchow's Concept of Life Space
60. Jean Piaget
61. The Vienna School of Developmental Psychology
62. Leo Semyonovich Vygotsky
63. Gordon W. Allport: A Becoming Personality
64. George Kelly and the Development of Personal Construct Theory
65. Projective Techniques
66. A True TAT Story
V. Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Abnormal Psychology
67. Classical Psychopathology
68. Sigmund Freud: A Biographical Sketch
69. Freud's Only Visit to America
70. The Case of Little Hans
71. Lou Andreas-Salome: Feminist and Psychoanalyst
72. Psychoanalysis in Caricatures
73. Alfred Adler
74. Georg Groddeck
75. Carl Gustav Jung
76. Erich Fromm
77. A Brief History of Sexual Child Abuse
78. Psychology and the Nuremberg Trials
79. Suicidologyv
80. Anti-Psychiatry and Anti-History: Nailing Jelly to the Wall
VI. Growth of Branches
81. Lightmer Witmer: The First Clinical Psychologist
82. Hugo Munsterberg: Pioneer of Applied Psychology
83. The Origins of the Psychology of Testimony
84. Psychotechnics
85. Sports Psychology
86. On Telling Left from Right: The Apparatus of Handedness in Early Psychology
87. Lillian M. Gilbreth
88. Traffic Psychology
89. The Mobile Psychologist: Psychology and the Railroads
90. Industrial Psychology
91. Advertising Psychology
92. History of Psychology
VII. International Developments
93. Psychological Journals
94. Psychological Associations and Societies
95. Psychology in the Netherlands
96. French Psychology
97. German Military Psychology
98. Psychology in Spain
99. German-Language Psychology
100. Experimental Psychology in Hungary
101. Russian Psychology
102. Early Italian Psychology
103. Psychology in Latin America
104. The History of Popular Psychology Magazines in America
105. American Cognitive Psychology
106. Psychology in Canada
636pp: 649 illus
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