Evolving Perspectives On The History Of Psychology

by Pickren, Wade E.; Dewsbury, Donald A.

• ISBN13: 9781557988829
• ISBN10: 155798882X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Amer Psychological Assn

Summary

Brings together important historical writing published in APA journals over the past quarter century. Includes several seminal papers from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as more recent examples of the finest work in the genre. Underscores the importance of social and cultural history in the shaping and development of psychology. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction	3	(8)
I. Methods of Historical Inquiry
Introduction	11	(4)
History Without the Past	15	(6)
Thomas H. Leahey
Epistemological Debates, Feminist Voices: Science, Social Values, and the Study of Women	21	(24)
Stephanie Riger
The Crisis of Experimentalism in the 1920s: E. G. Boring and His Uses of History	45	(20)
John M. O'Donnell
II. Establishing the Discipline of Psychology
Introduction	59	(6)
A Reappraisal of Wilhelm Wundt	65	(14)
Arthur L. Blumenthal
Contributions of American Mental Philosophers to Psychology in the United States	79	(22)
Alfred H. Fuchs
William James and the Art of Human Understanding	101	(20)
David E. Leary
Testing the Limits of Sense and Science: American Experimental Psychologists Combat Spiritualism, 1880-1920	121	(20)
Deborah J. Coon
Origins and Early Years of the American Psychological Association, 1890-1906	141	(28)
Michael M. Sokal
The Origins of the Psychological Experiment as a Social Institution	169	(22)
Kurt Danziger
III. Psychology as a Natural Science
Introduction	187	(4)
The Mythical Revolutions of American Psychology	191	(26)
Thomas H. Leahey
From Machine to the Ghost Within: Pavlov's Transition From Digestive Physiology to Conditional Reflexes	217	(20)
Daniel P. Todes
Whatever Happened to Little Albert?	237	(18)
Benjamin Harris
On Prediction and Control: B. F. Skinner and the Technological Ideal of Science	255	(24)
Laurence D. Smith
IV. Psychology as a Social and Behavioral Science
Introduction	275	(4)
G. Stanley Hall: From Philosophy to Developmental Psychology	279	(24)
Sheldon H. White
The Mental Testing Community and Validity: A Prehistory	303	(22)
Richard T. Von Mayrhauser
Gordon Allport, Character, and the ``Culture of Personality''	325	(28)
Ian A. M. Nicholson
V. Psychology Between the World Wars
Introduction	349	(4)
Unemployment, Politics, and the History of Organized Psychology	353	(16)
Lorenz J. Finison
Organized Industrial Psychology before Division 14: The ACP and the AAAP	369	(16)
Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr.
Cultural Contexts and Scientific Change in Psychology: Kurt Lewin in Iowa	385	(22)
Mitchell G. Ash
On Publishing Controversy: Norman R. F. Maier and the Genesis of Seizures	407	(26)
Donald A. Dewsbury
VI. The Practices of Psychology
Introduction	429	(4)
Clinical Psychology Seen Some 50 Years Later	433	(20)
David Shakow
An Asocial Psychology and a Misdirected Clinical Psychology	453	(18)
Seymour B. Sarason
The Return of the Repressed: Psychology's Problematic Relations With Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960	471	(28)
Gail A. Hornstein
VII. Psychology in the Public Interest
Introduction	495	(4)
Assessing Psychology's Moral Heritage Through Our Neglected Utopias	499	(28)
Jill G. Morawski
Placing Women in the History of Psychology: The First American Women Psychologists	527	(18)
Laurel Furumoto
E. Scarborough
``The Defects of His Race'': E. G. Boring and Antisemitism in American Psychology, 1923-1953	545	(30)
Andrew S. Winston
Recontextualizing Kenneth B. Clark: An Afrocentric Perspective on the Paradoxical Legacy of a Model Psychologist-Activist	575	(32)
Layli Phillips
About the Editors	607