History of Modern Psychology - Hardcover

Schultz, Duane P.; Schultz, Sydney Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0155083554 ISBN 13: 9780155083554

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

This highly regarded, best-selling book provides a clear, well-organized, user-friendly overview of modern psychology, presenting the evolution of the schools of thought as a continuing story and illustrating their development within the social-intellectual climate of their times (the Zeitgeist) as well as their impact on one another. It personalizes the history of psychology, showing how events in the lives of the influential theorists, researchers, and teachers affected their ideas, approaches and methods. It also describes the rise and importance of applied psychology as a uniquely American form of psychology.

About this title

About the Author:

Duane P. Schultz is a former professor of psychology at the University of South Florida. He has also held faculty appointments at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia (now the University of Mary Washington), American University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Dr. Schultz and his wife, Sydney Ellen Schultz, are a well-regarded textbook author team.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0155083554
• ISBN 13: 9780155083554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528