Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781032625775 / Miękka / 2023 / 568 str.

Csaba Pleh

Opis

Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology offers readers a multicentric perspective on the history of social science and compares the developments in psychology in relation to the developments made in the other social and natural sciences.

Spis treści

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

 

PART I

Disciplinary developments and eclectics 1

1 Schools of depth psychology: the divisions of psychoanalysis and neo-Freudism

2 Individuals and types: the victorious march of personality psychology and measurement

3 Motivation and dynamic psychologies

4 The victorious march of developmental theories

5 Social theories of the mind

6 The formation of modern social psychology

7 Soviet/Russian psychology

 

PART II

On the road toward contemporary psychology

8 Psychology as learning theory: neobehaviorism

9 The transformations of experimental psychology: birth and destiny of cognitive psychology

10 Roads toward a new psychology at the millennium

11 The future of psychology

 

General references

O autorze

Csaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Academia Europeae, and a visiting researcher at the Central European University, Department of Cognitive Science, Hungary. His empirical research is mainly concentrated on the cross-linguistic study of language processing and language development and issues of developmental language disorders.