A Century of Psychology

by Fuller, Ray; Walsh, Patricia Noonan; McGinley, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780415162203
• ISBN10: 0415162203
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
Brown, Heisenberg and Lorenz: predecessors of twenty-first-century psychology?	p. 1
The three-sided mirror: feminists looking at psychologists looking at women	p. 16
Child development: old themes and new directions	p. 36
The psychology of learning: retrospect and prospect	p. 54
Intellectual disability: a psychological assessment	p. 69
One hundred years of clinical psychology: roots, doubts and hopes	p. 85
The influence of psychology on psychotherapy during the twentieth century	p. 107
Psychology and education: a century of challenge for educational psychology	p. 123
Community psychology: a new Gestalt psychology?	p. 139
Critical moments on the edge: psychological prevention of psychic and somatic problems, disorders and illnesses	p. 156
Flight from science: alternative medicine, postmodernism and relativism	p. 171
One hundred years of work and organizational psychology: progress, deficiencies and promise	p. 192
The coming of age of the psychology of thinking and reasoning	p. 207
The history of the concept of goals	p. 224
Visual perception at the edge of the century	p. 241
On the edge of consciousness: pre-attentive mechanisms in the generation of anxiety	p. 252
Cognitive neuropsychology: the good, the bad and the bizarre	p. 271
A theory of emotion and its brain mechanisms	p. 296
Name index	p. 319
Subject index	p. 321
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