Includes bibliographical references (pages 813-852) and index.
Summary
"Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries - the search for the true causes of our behavior."--Back cover.
Contents
Prologue: Exploring the universe within -- Part 1: Prescientific psychology. The conjecturers ; The scholars ; The protopsychologists -- Part 2: Founders of a new science. The physicalists ; First among equals : Wundt ; The psychologist malgré lui : William James ; Explorer of the depths : Sigmund Freud ; The measurers ; The behaviorists ; The gestaltists -- Part 3: Specialization and synthesis. Introduction: The fissioning of psychology -- and the fusion of the psychological sciences ; The personality psychologists ; The developmentalists ; The social psychologists ; The perception psychologists ; The emotion and motivation psychologists ; The cognitivists ; The psychotherapists ; Users and misusers of psychology ; Psychology today.