A History of Psychology: Main Currents in Psychological Thought - Softcover

Leahey, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0133917800 ISBN 13: 9780133917802

Publisher: Longman Higher Education, 1987

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Hardy Leahey graduated in 1974 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology.  Assistant professor to Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia, 1974-2009, now Professor Emeritus.  Has been President of APA Divisions 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, and Division 26, History of Psychology.  Also author of Learning and Cognition (with R. J. Harris) and Psychology’s Occult Doubles (with Grace Evans Leahey) as well as numerous scientific, historical, and philosophical articles and book reviews.  He resides in Powhatan, VA with 2 cats, 3 robo-hamsters, and 1 gerbil.

About this edition

• Publisher: Longman Higher Education
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0133917800
• ISBN 13: 9780133917802
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480