A History of Psychology: Original Sources and Contemporary Research

by Ludy T. Benjamin Jr.

Book Overview

This text, on the history of psychology, covers the field from Descartes and Locke and the rise of modern science through the neobehaviourism of the 1950s, combining primary and secondary sources. It includes sections from the pioneering figures in the history of psychology, such as Descartes. Locke, Darwin, Freud, Wundt, Skinner and selections from current historians writing about psychology's past. It also focuses on the history of modern psychology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070055998
• ISBN13: 9780070055995
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent source of philosophical history of psychology

This text provides an excellent source of the philosophical bases of psychology. In presenting psychology's history, Benjamin pulls together diverse schools of thought converging upon what we know today as psychology. If dates and names are of interest, this is not the book for you. Instead, Benjamin provides a Gestalt look at from who and where psychology really came.