For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in History of Modern Psychology, and History and Systems of Psychology. This text is a history of modern psychology, beginning with the publication of Fechner's elements of Psychophysics in the mid-19th century to the present. It approaches the history of psychology from a scientific perspective. New - Chapter 2, 'Laying the Foundations'.- Provides students with a summary of the development of psychological ideas from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution through the 19th century prior to the founding of psychology as a science. New - Chapter 14, Lessons from History. - Draws on the history presented in the text to reflect on the status of psychology as a science. New - Reorganized coverage - Separates scientific psychology from applied and professional psychology. - Offers students a two-part treatment of psychology in the 20th century (with two separate narratives) emphasizing two different sets of developments to focus upon. New - Greater coverage of Gestalt psychology.
- Offers students more in-depth discussion of how German culture affected the development of German psychology, and heightens contrast of German and American psychology. New - Emphasis on changes in society especially in the rise of cities, industry, business, and government. - Shows students how these types of growth caused psychology to become socially important, beginning its transformation from a pure into an applied science, and eventually into a profession. New - Completely rewritten - Focuses more precisely than before on how philosophy of science is relevant to psychology. -Offers students a starting point for understanding controversies surrounding psychology's definition of its subject matter. Includes the - Latest critical scholarship on Freud - Now treats psychoanalysis chronologically rather than topically. - Reorganized to improve flow and student comprehension.