Psychology in Britain Historical Essays and Personal Reflections

by Bunn, Geoff; Lovie, A. D.; Richards, G. D.

• ISBN13: 9781854333322
• ISBN10: 1854333321
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Drawing on more than 25 contributions, this new book presents both a historical and personal account of British psychology over the last century. The book is divided into two sections: Part 1 contains a collection of historical essays concentrating on institutional beginnings, practical concerns, individual projects and post-war developments. Part 2 looks at the professional reminiscences of 12 senior psychologists.

Author Biography

Contributors:
G. Richards, F. Neary, G. Lyubov, A. Lovie, M. Thompson, J. Bourke, A. Collins,
M. Roiser, A. Costall, J. Sayers, R. Smith, D. Wilson, M. Derksen, R. Hayward, K. Baistow, M. Argyle, A. Baddeley, M. Boden, D. Duncan, F. Fransella, R. Gregory, R. Harre, G. Jahoda, J. Newson, E. Newson, M. Rutter, P. Wason.

Table of Contents

Historical Essays

Edward Cox, the Psychological Society of Great Britain and the meanings of and institutional failure

A question of 'peculiar important': George Croom Robertson, Mind and the changing relationship between British psychology and philosophy

James Scully and scientific psychology

Three steps to heaven: how the British Psychological Society attained its place in the sun

The popular, the practical and the professional: psychological identities in Britain

Psychology at war, 1914-1945

The psychology of memory

Social psychology and social concern in 1930s Britain

Pear and his peers

British psychology and psychoanalysis: the case of Susan Isaacs

Physiology and psychology, or brain and mind, in the age of

A 'precipitous degringolade?' The uncertain progress of British comparative psychology in the 20th Century

Science in the clinic: clinical psychology at the Maudsley

'Our friends electric' mechanical models of mind in post-war Britain

Behavioural approaches and the cultivation of competence

Personal Reflections

The development of social psychology in Oxford

Memories of memory research

Purpose, personality, creativity: a computational adventure

The joys of psychology

The making of a psychologist: a late developer

Adventures of a maverick

The advent of the methodological critique

Crossing Cultures

Taking people seriously: psychology as a listening ear

The emergence of developmental psychopathology

Creativity in research

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