"Malone has put together a comprehensive overview of psychology that is unmatched. It integrates thought about behavior from the Greeks to the present. This readable and authoritative book is a must for anyone interested in the history of psychology. It will make an excellent textbook and a sourcebook for scholars."--William M. Baum, University of California, Davis, Emeritus Professor, University of New Hampshire, and author of Understanding Behaviorism "John Malone has written a splendid book! A lively, readable and vigorous defense of history. It is covers a wide sweep from the early Greeks through Roman and Christian philosophy and the Enlightenment to modern developments such as cognitivism and behaviorism. It is both informative and critical, full of apercus that clobber their targets with force and grace. I hope that Malone's book may do for psychology what Bertrand Russell's historical opus did for philosophy. Read it."--J. E. R. Staddon, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University -- John Staddon "John Malone has written a splendid book! A lively, readable and vigorous defense of history. It covers a wide sweep from the early Greeks through Roman and Christian philosophy and the Enlightenment to modern developments such as cognitivism and behaviorism. It is both informative and critical, full of apercus that clobber their targets with force and grace. I hope that Malone's book may do for psychology what Bertrand Russell's historical opus did for philosophy. Read it." J. E. R. Staddon , Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
John C. Malone is Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"John Malone has written a splendid book! A lively, readable and vigorous defense of history. It covers a wide sweep from the early Greeks through Roman and Christian philosophy and the Enlightenment to modern developments such as cognitivism and behaviorism. It is both informative and critical, full of apercus that clobber their targets with force and grace. I hope that Malone's book may do for psychology what Bertrand Russell's historical opus did for philosophy. Read it." --J. E. R. Staddon, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University "This lucid book takes a fresh look at the individuals and ideas that comprise the history of psychology. Referring to the original theoretical and empirical sources, Malone questions many standard interpretations and received ideas, and provides enlightening ones of his own." --Howard Rachlin, Psychology Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook "Psychology imposes a bit of order in the disorder of scientific knowledge and social behavior. As John Malone examines the development of psychology through the ages, his discerning and acute view of cultural and scientific work shows what the field of psychology has been missing: a unified sense of itself. This work is a milestone." --Giulio Bolacchi, Chair and Professor, International Graduate Program in Science of Organization, AILUN, Nuoro, Italy "Malone has put together a comprehensive overview of psychology that is unmatched. It integrates thought about behavior from the Greeks to the present. This readable and authoritative book is a must for anyone interested in the history of psychology. It will make an excellent textbook and a sourcebook for scholars." --William M. Baum, University of California, Davis, Emeritus Professor, University of New Hampshire, and author of Understanding Behaviorism "Malone's Psychology offers particularly fresh thinking. I was especially impressed by the final chapter, in which Malone rescues radical behaviorism from the myths that have surrounded it and demonstrates how much contemporary social psychology shares its epistemological assumptions. Although Psychology is not intended to be a textbook, Malone's award-winning pedagogy and clear writing style make this book accessible even to undergraduate psychology students." --Daryl Bem, Cornell University
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