A History of Psychology: Main Currents in Psychological Thought - Hardcover

Leahey, Thomas H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130112860 ISBN 13: 9780130112866

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

For junior/graduate-level courses in The History and Systems of Psychology.

Offering a lively and critical look at psychology's past, this complete narrative history―from the Ancient Greeks to the present―explores psychology in its philosophical, religious, historical, and literary contexts.

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Synopsis:

Offering a lively and critical look at psychology's past, this complete narrative history - from the Ancient Greeks to the present - explores psychology in its philosophical, religious, historical, and literary contexts. NEW! Revised introductory chapter - Ch. 1 focuses more directly on the philosophy of psychology and considers various objections and alternatives to the idea that psychology can be a science *NEW! Detailed treatment of key psychological themes - The first theme is the idea that not only is psychology necessarily a social construction but that the mind itself is to some degree a social construction. The second theme involves struggles over the existence and nature of consciousness. The third is the theme of psychology as an applied discipline *NEW! Chronological narrative of the development of Freudian psychoanalysis - Ch.

8 has been revised and new materials have been added on the development of psychoanalysis after Freud *Examines the interrelationships of psychology and society - Examines how social context influenced the way philosophers and psychologists have thought about the mind, and how modern psychology has, in turn, affected society *Looks at the evolution of leading psychological concepts - Considers the leading exponents of different psychological systems during each historical era *Includes coverage on the most recent developments in psychology - e.g., the founding of the APS and Connectionism

About the Author:

Thomas Hardy Leahey graduated in 1974 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology.  Assistant professor to Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia, 1974-2009, now Professor Emeritus.  Has been President of APA Divisions 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and Division 26, History of Psychology.  Also author of Learning and Cognition (with R. J. Harris) and Psychology’s Occult Doubles (with Grace Evans Leahey) as well as numerous scientific, historical, and philosophical articles and book reviews.  He resides in Powhatan, VA with 2 cats, 3 robo-hamsters, and 1 gerbil.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0130112860
• ISBN 13: 9780130112866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 572