Encounters with Great Psychologists: Twelve Dramatic Portraits

by John H. Kunkel

This book presents in a dramatically different form the major issues of psychology. Fictionalized conversations between twelve of the most important psychologist and their colleagues, friends, and students convey the thinking behind their ideas in a fresh and lively manner. Accompanying the fascinating interchanges are overviews of the life and times of the psychologists and an outline of their main theories. The psychologists included Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Binswanger, John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner, Albert Bandura, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget.

Genres: Psychology

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Claudia Szanto · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am happy to have discovered this book and I appreciate the work professor Kunkel put into it, the lively way of presenting how the different schools of thought developed the questions, doubts and frustrations the psychologists had to deal with, the alleged conversations filled with documented information from their personal lives.
I have studied Psychology at the university, but among the many professors none has given life to this field so .. lucky are the students who encounter a memorable professor to give ease to their curiosity.

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting as an overview and as a secondary book for a History in Psych class.