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A Conceptual History of Psychology: Exploring the Tangled Web Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Greenwood, John D. (Author)

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ISBN: 1107057396     ISBN-13: 9781107057395
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $110.20  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | History
Dewey: 150.9
LCCN: 2015005510
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.05" W x 9.3" L (2.05 lbs) 574 pages
Review Citations: Choice 05/01/2016
 
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In the new edition of this original and penetrating book, John D. Greenwood provides an in-depth analysis of the subtle conceptual continuities and discontinuities that inform the history of psychology from the speculations of the Ancient Greeks to contemporary cognitive psychology. He also demonstrates the fashion in which different conceptions of human and animal psychology and behavior have become associated and disassociated over the centuries. Moving easily among psychology, history of science, physiology, and philosophy, Greenwood provides a critically challenging account of the development of psychology as a science. He relates the remarkable stories of the intellectual pioneers of modern psychology, while exploring the social and political milieu in which they operated, and dispels many of the myths of the history of psychology, based upon the best historical scholarship of recent decades. This is an impressive overview that will appeal to scholars and graduate students of the history of psychology.

Contributor Bio(s): Greenwood, John D.: - John D. Greenwood is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he currently serves in the PhD Programs in Philosophy and Psychology. He is the author of four books, What Happened to the Social In American Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Realism, Identity and Emotion (1994), Relations and Representations (1991) and Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science (1989), three edited volumes and over fifty articles. His main research interests are in the history and philosophy of social and psychological science.
 
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