A History of Psychology: From Antiquity to Modernity

by Thomas Hardy Leahey

A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society. Featuring extended treatment of important movements such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution, the textbook approaches the material from an integrative rather than wholly linear perspective. The text carefully examines how issues in psychology reflect and affect concepts that lie outside the field of psychology’s technical concerns as a science and profession. This new edition features expanded attention on psychoanalysis after its founding as well as new developments in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and behavioral economics. Throughout, the book strengthens its exploration of psychological ideas and the cultures in which they developed and reinforces the connections between psychology, modernism, and postmodernism. The textbook covers scientific, applied, and professional psychology, and is appropriate for higher-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Genres: Psychology, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy

542 pages, Hardcover

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)