Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology

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.

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, Budapest.

Inhalt

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