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| 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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