Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology

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.

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.

This is the second volume about the formation of modern psychology and provides a comprehensive look into the origins and developments of modern psychology. With a large geographical coverage, European developments are put into their own context in their own time. In doing this, the book explores different early schools, from social reductionists like Durkheim, Charles Blondel, and Maurice Halbwachs, to the social debates about relativism in Lévy-Bruhl, early Piaget, the beginnings of ethology, and the semiotic approach of Karl Bühler. These thinkers are placed in relation to the recent upsurge of different social and biological theories of the mind. Throughout, the author develops a detailed presentation of the thematic development of psychology and links the history of psychology to an outline of contemporary psychology.

This is an invaluable introductory text for undergraduate students of the history of psychology and will also appeal to postgraduates, academics, and anyone interested in psychology or the history of science. It will also be of interest to graduate students of psychology, biology, sociology, and anthropology with a theoretical interest in the history of the field.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

PART I Disciplinary developments and eclectics

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