Preface and Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | |
Why History? Why History of Psychology? | |
Reflexivity | |
Social Constructionism | |
Indigenization | |
Other Aspects of Our Story | |
Organizational Overview | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Origins of a Science of Mind | |
Introduction | |
Philosophy: Descartes and Locke as Exemplars | |
René Descartes (1596-1650) | |
John Locke (1632-1704) | |
The Legacy of Descartes and Locke for Psychology | |
Physiology and Medicine: The Search for Material Explanations of Human Nature | |
Medicine and Naturalistic Explanation | |
Research in the Physiology of the Nervous System | |
The Mechanization of the Brain | |
Focus on Christine Ladd-Franklin | |
Darwin, Natural Selection, and the Laws of Nature | |
Journey to the Galapagos | |
Continuity: Humans and Natural Law | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Everyday Life and Psychological Practices | |
Introduction | |
New Technologies | |
Technologies of Devotion and Piety | |
Technologies of Self-Perception and Self-Expression | |
Psychological Consequences of Commercial Society | |
Changes in Family Life | |
Reading the Signs of the Body in the Era of Industrial Capitalism | |
The First Industrial Revolution | |
Reading the Signs of the Body | |
Physiognomy | |
Phrenology | |
Focus on the Fowler Brothers | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Subject Matter, Methods, and the Making of a New Science | |
Introduction | |
Can Psychology Be a Science? | |
Kant's Challenge | |
Psychophysics and the Possibility of a New Science | |
The German Intellectual Tradition | |
Wilhelm Wundt and the New Psychology | |
Psychology in Britain and France | |
The New Psychology in America | |
William James and a Science of Psychology | |
The Principles of Psychology | |
The Demise of Introspection in American Psychology | |
Thorndike, the Animal Mind, and Animal Behavior | |
Pavlov, Animal Learning, and the Environment | |
Perry and Changing Beliefs About the Nature of Consciousness | |
Watson and the Rise of Behaviorism | |
Behaviorism: Influential but Contested | |
Focus on Mary Whiton Calkins | |
Behaviorism and American Life | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
From Periphery to Center: Creating an American Psychology | |
Introduction | |
American Mental and Moral Philosophy | |
Forging a Psychological Sensibility: From Religion to Psychical Research | |
Religion and Revival | |
Mesmerism and Religion | |
Spiritualism | |
New Thought | |
Psychical Phenomena | |
Boundary Work and the New Psychology: Establishing the Center and Marking the Periphery | |
American Psychologists: Organization and Application | |
Organizing for Science | |
Making Psychology Useful | |
Engaging the Public | |
Education: The Pay Vein That Supports the Mine | |
Psychologists in Industry | |
Focus on Lillian Moller Gilbreth | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
The Practice Of Psychology At The Interface With Medicine | |
Introduction | |
Enlightenment and Madness | |
From Mesmerism to Hypnosis | |
Charcot: The Napoleon of the Neuroses | |
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | |
Focus on Bertha Pappenheim | |
Freud's Impact on Psychology as a Mental Health Profession | |
Therapeutic Nihilism | |
Psychologists, Psychoanalysis, and Mental Health in America | |
Boundaries Between Psychology and Medicine | |
Mental Testing | |
Psychologists and the Question of Boundaries with Psychoanalysis | |
Psychoanalysis and Psychosomatic Medicine Psychoanalysis Outside Europe and North America | |
Psychologists, Psychoanalysis, and Mental Health in India | |
Psychoanalysis in Argentina | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Psychologists as Testers: Applying Psychology, Ordering Society | |
Introduction | |
The Roots of Mental Testing in America | |
Mental Tests Go to the Fair | |
Lightner Witmer and the Prehistory of Clinical Psychology | |
Sorting the Sexes | |
Focus on Leta Stetter Hollingworth | |
The Demise of Mental Tests and the Rise of the IQ | |
Lewis Terman and the Americanization of Intelligence Testing | |
Army Intelligence: World War I Puts Psychology on the Map | |
World War I and Its Impact on American Psychology Intelligence Testing Around the World: Center or Periphery? | |
The French Twist | |
The British Context | |
Dutch Society | |
Germany and Psychotechnics | |
What Did the Tests Test? | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
American Psychological Science and Practice Between the World Wars | |
Introduction | |
Who Owns Psychology? | |
Organization and Cooperation | |
Organization | |
Cooperative Research and Philanthropy | |
The Kingdom of Behavior: Mainstream Psychology, 1920-1940 | |
Neobehaviorism | |
Developing Developmental Psychology | |
Focus on Mary Cover Jones | |
Race, Ethnicity, Intelligence, and Resistance | |
Psychologists and Scientific Racism | |
Challenges to Psychometric Racism | |
Sexuality Research | |
Personality Psychology | |
Assessing Personality | |
Henry Murray, the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and the TAT | |
Personality, Personnel, and the Management of the Worker | |
The Disciplinary Emergence of Social Psychology in America | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Psychology in Europe Between the World Wars | |
Introduction | |
Psychology, Natural Science, and Philosophy in Germany and Austria | |
Gestalt Psychology in Germany | |
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) | |
The Dorpat School of Religious Psychology | |
German Psychology After 1933 | |
Psychology in Vienna | |
Focus on Marie Jahoda | |
Psychology, Natural Science, and Philosophy Across Continental Europe | |
Developments in France | |
Developments in the Netherlands | |
Psychology in Russia and the Early Years of the Soviet Union | |
Psychotechnics | |
Psychology in Britain | |
Psychology at Cambridge | |
War and Psychology in Britain | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
The Golden Age of American Psycholog Y | |
Introduction | |
Preparing for War | |
The National Council of Women Psychologists | |
War Service | |
Psychiatric Casualties and the Consolidation of Clinical Psychology | |
Golden Age of Psychology | |
Postwar Initiatives for Training Mental Health Professionals | |
Clinical Psychology and the VA | |
National Institute of Mental Health | |
Challenges to the New Clinical Psychology | |
Psychology versus Psychiatry | |
Antipsychiatry and the Treatment of Mental Disorders | |
Diversifying Psychological Research in the Golden Age | |
VA Clinical Research | |
The NIMH and the Expansion of Research | |
B. F. Skinner, Culture, and Controversy | |
The Third Force: Humanistic Psychology Challenges the Status Quo | |
Complicating Social Psychology | |
Psychologists, Racial Identity, and Civil Rights | |
Focus on Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark | |
Interracial Housing | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Internationalization and Indigenization of Psychology Afterworld War Ii | |
Introduction | |
Internationalization and Indigenization | |
Back Story: Western Psychology in Non-Western Settings | |
China | |
Japan | |
India | |
Africa | |
Indigenous Psychologies | |
Indigenization in Context | |
Liberation and Nonalignment in Postcolonial Nations | |
Examples of Indigenous Psychologies | |
Refashioning Psychology for a Cultural Match in India | |
Focus on Jai B. P. Sinha | |
Fashioning an Indigenous Psychology in the Philippines | |
Toward a Liberation Psychology in Latin America | |
Toward a Psychology of Liberation | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Feminism and American Psychology: The Science and Politics of Gender | |
Introduction | |
Bringing Feminism to Psychology | |
Feminist Critiques of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, and Alternatives | |
Sex Differences Revisited | |
From Sex to Gender | |
A Theory of Their Own: The Relational Approach | |
Owning the Past: Origins of Women's History in Psychology | |
Focus on Ruth Howard | |
Creating an Inclusive Feminist Psychology | |
Feminist Psychologies in International Context | |
Feminist and Postcolonial Critiques of Science and Psychology in the 1980s | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Inclusiveness, Identity, and Conflict In Late 20Th-Century American Psychology | |
Introduction | |
Toward an Inclusive Psychology | |
Institutional Changes | |
Training Psychologists to Serve Ethnic Minority Populations | |
Focus on Joseph L. White | |
Psychologists and the Community | |
A Question of Professional Identity | |
Psychologists, Government, and National Security | |
Government and the Direction of Psychological Science | |
Summary | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
Brain, Behavior, and Cognition Since 1945 | |
Introduction | |
The Return of the Mind | |
Focus on Enriched Environments | |
Neuropsychology of Cognition and Memory | |
How Does Memory Work? | |
Minds and Machines | |
Computations and Computers | |
Babbage's Engines | |
Turing's Game | |
Toward the Machine-as-Brain Metaphor | |
Information Theory and Cybernetics | |
Language Returns | |
Summary | |
Concluding Thoughts | |
Bibliographic Essay | |
References | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
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