History of American psychology / A. A. Roback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--United States--History.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Library Publishers, 1952.

Summary:

The present volume is an attempt to bridge the gulf between pre-experimental and experimental epochs in America, and to fill in the gaps, to some extent, in both the too brief and the deliberately circumscribed histories of psychology.

Contents:

Part I. In the dominion of physics and the empire of theology. In the nebulous colonial days. The secularization of psychology. Scottish realism comes to America. Philadelphia in the foreground. The age of independent textbooks. German influences. Impetus from the natural sciences. Transition period of the '80's. Treatises on the will

Part II. Psychology comes of age. The new psychology. The psychological laboratory comes to America. Psychology at Harvard and William James. G. Stanley Hall and the genetic method. Cattell and Baldwin. The structuralism of Titchener. Hugo Mu¨nsterberg

Part III. The schools. The rise of functionalism. Psychology out of its mind. Dynamic psychology. William McDougall and Hormic psychology. Woodworth, Lewin and other dynamic psychologists. Freud and psychoanalysis. Gestalt psychology. Operationism. Factorial analysis and general semantics. Neo-scholastic psychology

Part IV. Growth of branches. The phenomenal expansion of American psychology.

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