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Pioneers of Psychology Raymond E. Fancher (York University)

Pioneers of Psychology By Raymond E. Fancher (York University)

Pioneers of Psychology by Raymond E. Fancher (York University)


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Brings the history of psychology to life.

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Pioneers of Psychology: A History by Raymond E. Fancher (York University)

Pioneers of Psychology tells the stories of the men and women who have shaped our understanding of what it means to be human over the past 400 years. Written by professional historians of psychology and drawing on the most up-to-date historical scholarship, Pioneers of Psychology illuminates the major themes and controversies in psychology's history through carefully crafted stories of real people, their personal journeys, and their intellectual insights.

About Raymond E. Fancher (York University)

Raymond E. Fancher is a Senior Scholar and Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. A founder of York's Ph.D. program in the History and Theory of Psychology, he has served as editor of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and held top executive positions with the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association) and Cheiron (The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences). He is the author of Psychoanalytic Psychology: The Development of Freud's Thought and The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy (both published by Norton) as well as nearly 100 other publications on the history of psychology, and is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology. Alexandra Rutherford is an associate professor of psychology in the History and Theory of Psychology Graduate Program at York University in Toronto. Her research interests include the history and contemporary status of feminist psychology and the relationships between psychology and American society from the mid-twentieth century to today. She is a fellow of four divisions of the American Psychological Association and is author of Beyond the Box: B. F. Skinner's Technology of Behavior from Laboratory to Life, 1950s-1970s (University of Toronto Press). She divides her time between Toronto and New York City.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Rene Descartes and the Foundations of Modern Psychology Chapter 2 - Philosophers of Mind: John Locke and Gottfried Leibniz Chapter 3 - Physiologists of Mind: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield Chapter 4 - The Sensing and Perceiving Mind: Theories of Perception from Kant through the Gestalt Psychologists Chapter 5 - Wilhelm Wundt and the Establishment of Experimental Psychology Chapter 6 - Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Chapter 7 - The Measurement of Mind: Francis Galton and the Psychology of Individual Differences Chapter 8 - William James and Psychology in America Chapter 9 - Psychology as the Science of Behavior: Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner Chapter 10 - Social Influence and Social Psychology: From Mesmer to Milgram Chapter 11 - Mind in Conflict: The Psychoanalytic Psychology of Sigmund Freud Chapter 12 - Psychology Gets Personality: Gordon Allport, Abraham Maslow, and the Broadening of Academic Psychology Chapter 13 - The Developing Mind: Alfred Binet, Jean Piaget, and the Study of Human Intelligence Chapter 14 - Machines, Minds, and Cognitive Psychology Chapter 15 - Origins of Applied Psychology: From the Courtroom to the Clinic

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GOR006758564
9780393913378
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Pioneers of Psychology: A History by Raymond E. Fancher (York University)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20120124
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