Curt Richter: A Life in the Laboratory

by Jay Schulkin

In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated theoretical arguments, choosing instead to apply his data-collection methods, innovative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801880734
• ISBN13: 9780801880735
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"