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A History of Psychology: The Emergence of Science and Applications
A History of The Emergence of Science and Applications, Sixth Edition, traces the history of psychology from antiquity through the early 21st century, giving students a thorough look into psychology’s origins and key developments in basic and applied psychology.
This new edition includes extensive coverage of the proliferation of applied fields since the mid-twentieth century and stronger emphases on the biological basis of psychology, new statistical techniques and qualitative methodologies, and emerging therapies. Other areas of emphasis include the globalization of psychology, the growth of interest in health psychology, the resurgence of interest in motivation, and the importance of ecopsychology and environmental psychology. Substantially revised and updated throughout, this book retains and improves its strengths from prior editions, including its strong scholarly foundation and scholarship from groups too often omitted from psychological history, including women, people of color, and scholars from outside the United States. This book also aims to engage and inspire students to recognize the power of history in their own lives and studies, to connect history to the present and the future, and to think critically and historically.
For additional resources, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/woody where instructors will find lecture slides and outlines; testbanks; and how-to sources for teaching History and Systems of Psychology courses; and students will find review a timeline; review questions; complete glossary; and annotated links to relevant resources.
This new edition includes extensive coverage of the proliferation of applied fields since the mid-twentieth century and stronger emphases on the biological basis of psychology, new statistical techniques and qualitative methodologies, and emerging therapies. Other areas of emphasis include the globalization of psychology, the growth of interest in health psychology, the resurgence of interest in motivation, and the importance of ecopsychology and environmental psychology. Substantially revised and updated throughout, this book retains and improves its strengths from prior editions, including its strong scholarly foundation and scholarship from groups too often omitted from psychological history, including women, people of color, and scholars from outside the United States. This book also aims to engage and inspire students to recognize the power of history in their own lives and studies, to connect history to the present and the future, and to think critically and historically.
For additional resources, consult the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/cw/woody where instructors will find lecture slides and outlines; testbanks; and how-to sources for teaching History and Systems of Psychology courses; and students will find review a timeline; review questions; complete glossary; and annotated links to relevant resources.
615 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 27, 2017
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August 10, 2024
This textbook provides a sufficient and generally fascinating overview of the history of psychology. This text was required by a graduate course I took, PSY 5605 History & Systems of Psychology, and I genuinely enjoyed reading it. The authors describe the evolution of psychology through an interactionist lens, detailing the biographies and influential ideas of major historical figures contributing to psychology.
Transformations in the field are described as a product of the interactions between prominent figures and the influence of culture, established systems of thought, societal reception, (primarily academic) institutions, and other individuals (personal and/or professional relationships). Personal characteristics of historical figures are also clearly explained, and earnestly so. These characteristics range from the innocuous, such as perseverance and extroversion/introversion, to the difficult, such as psychopathology (when present). The authors elucidate the complex, difficulty, and painful journeys that often went into major developments of the field. Such commentary helps to reduce the stigmas associated with psychopathology, efforts which are still desperately needed in the modern world.
Therefore, lacking in a degree of nuance and detail with economic summaries, the authors provide a broad, factual, and fascinating overview of the history of psychology. Accordingly, the text is quite helpful for understanding how we have arrived at the current state of psychology.
Transformations in the field are described as a product of the interactions between prominent figures and the influence of culture, established systems of thought, societal reception, (primarily academic) institutions, and other individuals (personal and/or professional relationships). Personal characteristics of historical figures are also clearly explained, and earnestly so. These characteristics range from the innocuous, such as perseverance and extroversion/introversion, to the difficult, such as psychopathology (when present). The authors elucidate the complex, difficulty, and painful journeys that often went into major developments of the field. Such commentary helps to reduce the stigmas associated with psychopathology, efforts which are still desperately needed in the modern world.
Therefore, lacking in a degree of nuance and detail with economic summaries, the authors provide a broad, factual, and fascinating overview of the history of psychology. Accordingly, the text is quite helpful for understanding how we have arrived at the current state of psychology.
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