A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity: International Edition

by Thomas Hardy Leahey

Provides a narrative history of psychology. A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity begins tracking psychology from the development of folk psychology as the key adaptation of humans at the dawn of history. It then traces the Classical, medieval, and early modern periods to present day psychology. The text covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology.

Although theoretical and empirical arguments inside psychology about the nature of mind and behavior are not neglected, A History of Psychology shows how psychology's development has been shaped by social, economic, and political forces external to it, and, in turn, how the mature psychology of the late 20th century has begun to shape the society in which it arose. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the technical concerns of psychology as a science and profession.

Upon completing this text, readers will be able to:


Know the events in the history of scientific, applied, and professional psychology Understand how psychology, s development was shaped by external forces Describe how psychology has and continues to shape society

Genres: Psychology, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy

557 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Hellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty dense material, this book mostly about psychology's philosophical inheritance. Suddenly a lot makes sense (I better not say this out loud in class).
Worth the read, though I'm taking away one star because the book is unnecessarily hard to use for studying, which I'm sure is what it's written for. Some visual overviews and summaries wouldn't hurt.

[Bekan Romero · Rating 5 out of 5]

(9/10). Buen libro para empezar.

[amory_books · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro completo de precisamente la historia de la psicología. Está muy bueno.

[Sigurdur · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent, very readable overview of the history of psychology.

[Reix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty interesting, but sometimes quite boring. The best part, for me, is when it starts to talk about Freud, dismantling the 'myth' (I admit it, I don't like Freud theories, neither psychoanalysis, in my opinion totally unuseful)