Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781032502762 / Miękka / 2023 / 496 str.

Csaba Pleh

Opis

Part of a two-volume series, this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology, situating its development in relation to developments made in other social sciences and philosophical disciplines.

Spis treści

1. History of Psychology and Psychological Theory

Part I. At The Dawn of Autonomy: A Topic in Search of a Discipline

2. Descartes and The Scientific Method

3. Cognition and Association: The Development of The Psychological Agenda in The Enlightenment Period

4. Early Neuroscience as a Precursor to Modern Psychology: Reflexes and Localization

Part II. From Birth to Divisions

5. On the Threshold of Psychology: The Birth of the Idea of Measurement of the Mind

6. Wilhelm Wundt: The Program Setter and Codifier

7. The Evolutionist Alternative for a Modern Psychology: Development, Adaptation and Individual Differences

8. Functionalism and Structuralism in America: The First Open Debate　

9. The Distribution and Division of New Psychology in Europe

10. Critics and Alternatives to Experimental Psychology at the Turn of the 20th Century: Platonist, Irrationalist and Human Science Alternatives

Part III. The Age of Great Schools

11. The Behaviorist Revolution: Psychology Loses its Mind

12. Wholes and Meaning: Gestalt Psychology

13. The Underwater Part of the Iceberg: Sigmund Freud and the "Discovery" of the Unconscious

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, Budapest.