About the Author

Kerry W. Buckley , recieved his Ph.D. in American Social and Intellectual History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he now heads the office of Humanities Programs in the Division of Continuing Education . He has taught the history of psychology at Wellsey College and has published articles on Watson and behaviorism in the Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences and The Social Science Encylopedia { London }.

Reviews

A biography of John B. Watson worth reading as scholarship.....No other treatment interweaves so well the complexities of people and the environment, of science and society, of times and culture. The book exemplifies the best of the 'new' history of psychology....Uniformly excellent. - Philosophical Psychology