Problems of Historical Psychology

Problems of Historical Psychology
Author: Zevedei Barbu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000767353

Originally published in 1960, this study was rooted in the conviction that a close cooperation between the disciplines of psychology and history opened new and fruitful perspectives for the understanding of both fields. The title is an investigation of the connection between history and psychology, discussing how a society shapes and conditions the minds of those born into it. The author takes a close look at Greek society at the time of Pericles, and English society of the Elizabethan era. Though presented in the idiom of psychology, the problems with which this book is concerned, should appeal to historian and psychologist alike.

Positivism in Psychology

Positivism in Psychology
Author: Charles W. Tolman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461244021

Positivism needs further scrutiny. In recent years, there has been little consensus about the nature of positivism or about the precise forms its influence has taken on psychological theory. One symptom of this lack of clarity has been that ostensibly anti-positivist psychological theorizing is frequently found reproducing one or more distinctively positivist assumptions. The contributors to this volume believe that, while virtually every theoretically engaged psychologist today openly rejects positivism in both its 19th century and 20th century forms, it is indispensable to look at positivism from all sides and to appraise its role and importance in order to make possible the further development of psychological theory.

Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology

Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
Author: Marc Brysbaert
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780273743675

The 2nd edition of Historical and Conceptual issues in Psychology offers a lively and engaging introduction to the main issues underlying the emergence and continuing evolution of psychology.

Psychology and History

Psychology and History
Author: Cristian Tileagă
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107034310

Exploring the relationship between psychology and history, this book considers how the disciplines could benefit from a closer dialogue.

Theoretical Issues in Psychology

Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Author: Sacha Bem
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1446281434

An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.

A Brief History of Psychology

A Brief History of Psychology
Author: Michael Wertheimer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1848728743

This edition approaches psychology as a discipline with antecedents in philosophical speculation and early scientific experimentation. It covers these early developments, 19th-century German experimental psychology and empirical psychology in tradition of William James, the 20th century dubbed "the age of schools" and dominated by psychoanalysis, behavioralism, structuralism, and Gestalt psychology, as well as the return to empirical methods and active models of human agency. Finally it evaluates psychology in the new millennium and developments in terms of women in psychology, industrial psychology and social justice

An Intellectual History of Psychology

An Intellectual History of Psychology
Author: Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1995-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0299148432

An Intellectual History of Psychology, already a classic in its field, is now available in a concise new third edition. It presents psychological ideas as part of a greater web of thinking throughout history about the essentials of human nature, interwoven with ideas from philosophy, science, religion, art, literature, and politics. Daniel N. Robinson demonstrates that from the dawn of rigorous and self-critical inquiry in ancient Greece, reflections about human nature have been inextricably linked to the cultures from which they arose, and each definable historical age has added its own character and tone to this long tradition. An Intellectual History of Psychology not only explores the most significant ideas about human nature from ancient to modern times, but also examines the broader social and scientific contexts in which these concepts were articulated and defended. Robinson treats each epoch, whether ancient Greece or Renaissance Florence or Enlightenment France, in its own terms, revealing the problems that dominated the age and engaged the energies of leading thinkers. Robinson also explores the abiding tension between humanistic and scientific perspectives, assessing the most convincing positions on each side of the debate. Invaluable as a text for students and as a stimulating and insightful overview for scholars and practicing psychologists, this volume can be read either as a history of psychology in both its philosophical and aspiring scientific periods or as a concise history of Western philosophy’s concepts of human nature.

The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology

The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
Author: Anton Yasnitsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1060
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1316060454

The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain, and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain, and culture, and the ways to understand it. The contributors are major international experts in the field, and include authors of major works on Lev Vygotsky, direct collaborators and associates of Alexander Luria, and renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. The Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of psychology, education, humanities and neuroscience.

Between Mind and Nature

Between Mind and Nature
Author: Roger Smith
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1780231180

From William James to Ivan Pavlov, John Dewey to Sigmund Freud, the Würzburg School to the Chicago School, psychology has spanned centuries and continents. Today, the word is an all-encompassing name for a bewildering range of beliefs about what psychologists know and do, and this intrinsic interest in knowing how our own and other’s minds work has a story as fascinating and complex as humankind itself. In Between Mind and Nature, Roger Smith explores the history of psychology and its relation to religion, politics, the arts, social life, the natural sciences, and technology. Considering the big questions bound up in the history of psychology, Smith investigates what human nature is, whether psychology can provide answers to human problems, and whether the notion of being an individual depends on social and historical conditions. He also asks whether a method of rational thinking exists outside the realm of natural science. Posing important questions about the value and direction of psychology today, Between Mind and Nature is a cogently written book for those wishing to know more about the quest for knowledge of the mind.