A History of Ideas in American Psychology Keen, Ernest

This history of ideas in American psychology divides 11 decades into three periods, marked out by specific themes central to psychologists over the years. Initially, the legacy of mind-body dualism challenged scientists to make coherent a single universe of mental and physical phenomena, but efforts were hampered by languages that embody mental, physical, and metaphysical commitments. This struggle began with James, whose work remains enormously relevant, is exacerbated by Titchener, whose mentalism provokes a reaction by Watson, whose physicalistic bias provoked a vastly expanded realm opened by Gestalt.

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A History of Ideas in American Psychology Hardback, 288 pages, $102.95 Copyright ©2001, Praeger Publishers ISBN: 0-275-97205-4 DOI: 10.1336/0275972054

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