List of Illustrations. Preface.
1. Pre-Scientific Psychology.
2. Physiology, Psychophysics, and the Science of Mind.
3. Germany and the Birth of a New Science.
4. Origins of Scientific Psychology in America.
5. The Early Schools of Psychology.
6. The Birth of the New Applied Psychology in America.
7. Psychoanalysis.
8. Behaviorism.
9. The New Profession of Psychology.
10. A Psychology of Social Action and Social Change.
11. Cognitive Psychology.
Epilogue.
References.
Acknowledgments.
Index
Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. is Professor of Psychology and Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University and is holder of the Glasscock Professorship and a Presidential Professorship in Teaching Excellence. His numerous publications include From Séance to Science: A History of the Profession of Psychology in America (with David Baker, 2004) and A History of Psychology in Letters (second edition 2006, Blackwell).
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