A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society. Featuring extended treatment of important movements such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, the textbook approaches the material from an integrative rather than wholly linear perspective. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology’s technical concerns as a science and profession.
This new edition features expanded attention on psychoanalysis after its founding as well as new developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics. Throughout, the book strengthens its exploration of psychological ideas and the cultures in which they developed and reinforces the connections between psychology, modernism, and postmodernism. The textbook covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology, and is appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate students.
Table of Contents
Part I. Situating Psychology
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part II. The Pre-modern World
Chapter 2. The Legacy of Ancient Greece EEA – 323 BCE
Chapter 3. Antiquity: 323 BCE to 1000 CE
Chapter 4. End of the Premodern World 1000 c.e.–1600 c.e.
Part III. Constructing the Modern World
Chapter 5. The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 6. The Enlightenment 1700–1815
Chapter 7. The Ascent of Science 1815–1914
Part IV. Founding Psychology
Chapter 8. The Psychology of Consciousness
Chapter 9. The Psychology of the Unconscious
Chapter 10. The Psychology of Adaptation
Part V. Psychological Science in the Modern World
Chapter 11. Behaviorism 1892-1956
Chapter 12. Cognitive Science 1956–2016
Chapter 13. The Rise of Applied Psychology 1892–1939
Chapter 14. The Psychological Society 1940–2016
Concluding Thoughts
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