A Pictorial History of Psychology

by Bringmann, Wolfgang G.; Luck, Helmut E.; Miller, Rudolf; Early, Charles E.

• ISBN13: 9780867152920
• ISBN10: 0867152923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Edition Q

Summary

With more than 100 chapters by eminent contributors around the world, this book brings to life the key figures, ideas, and movements that have shaped psychology from ancient times to the present. Nearly 700 photographs and illustrations, some published here for the first time, give the book a strong visual emphasis to complement its expert writing. The reader will learn the surprising connections between psychology and a variety of other disciplines.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Preface to the German Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Aristotle and Psychology	p. 3
The Inner Senses: A Medieval Theory of Cognitive Functioning in the Ventricles of the Brain	p. 8
Psychologia, [actual symbol not reproducible] Psychology	p. 13
Christian Thomasius: A Man Ahead of His Time	p. 19
The Witchcraze in 17th-Century Europe	p. 23
Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Non-Verbal Communication	p. 30
Goethe as an Early Behavior Therapist	p. 35
An 18th-Century Baby Biography	p. 37
Gnothi Sauton: The Journal of Experiential Psychology	p. 42
Johannes Muller and the Principle of Sensory Metamorphosis	p. 46
Charles Darwin and Psychology	p. 51
Galton's Hat and the Invention of Intelligence Tests	p. 53
Metaphors of Memory: The Case of Photography	p. 56
Brentano: Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint	p. 61
William James: America's Premier Psychologist	p. 66
Parapsychology	p. 71
Clever Hans: Fact or Fiction?	p. 77
Wilhelm von Humboldt and the German University	p. 85
Jan Evangelista Purkyne (Purkinje)	p. 90
Ernst Heinrich Weber	p. 97
Fechner and Lotze	p. 101
Hermann von Helmholtz	p. 107
Time-Measuring Apparatus in Psychology	p. 111
Wilhelm Wundt	p. 117
Wundt's Laboratories	p. 126
Max Friedrich and the Origins of Experimental Psychology	p. 133
Wilhelm Wundt: The American Connection	p. 140
Wilhelm Wundt's "Volkerpsychologie"	p. 148
Edward Bradford Titchener (1867-1927)	p. 153
Wilhelm Wirth and the Psychophysical Seminar of Leipzig	p. 162
Hermann Ebbinghaus	p. 167
G. E. Muller: The Third Pillar of Experimental Psychology	p. 171
The Wurzburg School of Psychology	p. 177
The Experimental Analysis of Volition	p. 182
Margaret Floy Washburn	p. 187
Can Apes Learn a Human Language?	p. 191
Behaviorism	p. 198
B. F. Skinner: Maverick, Inventor, Behaviorist, Critic	p. 206
A Purposive Behaviorist: Edward C. Tolman	p. 214
The Heretical Psychology of Egon Brunswik	p. 221
Psychological Experiments	p. 233
Ernst Mach and the Perception of Movement	p. 243
Carl Stumpf	p. 247
The Graz School of Gestalt Psychology	p. 251
Gertrude Stein, William James, and Pablo Picasso's Cubism	p. 256
The Psychologist Robert Musil	p. 265
The Berlin School of Gestalt Psychology	p. 268
Gestalt Psychology at Frankfurt University	p. 273
Wolfgang Kohler	p. 277
Kurt Lewin - Filmmaker	p. 282
Roger Barker's Ecological Psychology	p. 288
The Mental Life of Newborn Children	p. 295
G. Stanley Hall and American Psychology	p. 301
Alfred Binet and the Quest for Testing Higher Mental Functioning	p. 309
The Beginnings of Educational Psychology in Germany	p. 315
William Stern	p. 322
Maria Montessori	p. 326
Lewis M. Terman: Architect for a Psychologically Stratified Society	p. 329
Martha Muchow's Concept of Lifespace	p. 337
Jean Piaget	p. 342
The Vienna School of Developmental Psychology	p. 348
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky	p. 352
Gordon W. Allport: A Becoming Personality	p. 356
George A. Kelly and the Development of Personal Construct Theory	p. 364
Projective Techniques	p. 373
A True TAT Story	p. 376
Classical Psychopathology	p. 383
Sigmund Freud: A Biographical Sketch	p. 391
Freud's Only Visit to America	p. 395
The Case of Little Hans	p. 399
Lou Andreas-Salome: Feminist and Psychoanalyst	p. 406
Psychoanalysts in Caricatures	p. 413
Alfred Adler	p. 416
Georg Groddeck	p. 420
Carl Gustav Jung	p. 424
Erich Fromm	p. 431
A Brief History of Child Sexual Abuse	p. 435
Psychology and the Nuremberg Trials	p. 441
Suicidology	p. 448
Anti-Psychiatry and Anti-History: "Nailing Jelly to the Wall"	p. 454
Lightner Witmer: The First Clinical Psychologist	p. 465
Hugo Munsterberg: Pioneer of Applied Psychology	p. 471
The Origins of the Psychology of Testimony	p. 476
Psychotechnics	p. 480
Sports Psychology	p. 485
On Telling Left from Right: The Apparatus of Handedness in Early American Psychology	p. 490
Lillian M. Gilbreth	p. 501
Traffic Psychology	p. 503
The Mobile Psychologist: Psychology and the Railroads	p. 506
Industrial Psychology	p. 510
Advertising Psychology	p. 514
The History of Psychology	p. 518
Psychological Journals	p. 529
Psychological Associations and Societies	p. 536
Psychology in the Netherlands	p. 541
French Psychology	p. 548
German Military Psychology	p. 553
Psychology in Spain	p. 557
Academic Psychology in Prague	p. 562
Experimental Psychology in Hungary	p. 568
Russian Psychology	p. 572
Early Italian Psychology	p. 577
Psychology in Latin America	p. 582
A History of Popular Psychology Magazines in America	p. 585
American Cognitive Psychology	p. 594
The Archives of the History of American Psychology	p. 599
Psychology in Canada	p. 610
Name Index	p. 617
Subject Index	p. 627
Illustration Credits	p. 633
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