The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideas: Understanding Prominence and the Dynamics of Intellectual Change (Path in Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306479982 ISBN 13: 9780306479984

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This book focuses on what other volumes have only touched on, that is the factors that contribute to the rise of certain persons and ideas in the field of psychology. Bringing together noted experts in the field, it describes the process of intellectual reconstructions that determines how we view historical events, and why some ideas die only to be reborn again, as well as why new ideas can quickly topple traditional views.

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Synopsis

This book focuses on what other volumes have only touched on, that is the factors that contribute to the rise of certain persons and ideas in the field of psychology. Bringing together noted experts in the field, it describes the process of intellectual reconstructions that determines how we view historical events, and why some ideas die only to be reborn again, as well as why new ideas can quickly topple traditional views. As such, it answers the following questions: what enables a body of work to withstand distortion, labelling, and stereotyping? Why do new revelations in the historical archive renew interest in "re-examining" particular ideas? Through what process does a theory become a school of thought, or a movement attracting adherents?

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306479982
• ISBN 13: 9780306479984
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Dalton Thomas C., Evans Rand B.