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020 $a9781107007291 (hardback)
020 $a9780521189309 (paperback)
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050 00 $aBF108.E85$bA44 2014
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084 $aPSY015000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aAlexander, Bruce K.
245 12 $aA history of psychology in western civilization /$cBruce K. Alexander, Simon Fraser University, Curtis P. Shelton, British Columbia Institute of Technology.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axix, 542 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This book is a re-introduction to psychology. It focuses on great scholarly thinkers, beginning with Plato, Marcus Aurelius and St Augustine, who gave the field its foundational ideas long before better known 'founders', such as Galton, Fechner, Wundt and Watson appeared on the scene. Psychology can only achieve its full breadth and potential when we fully appreciate its scholarly legacy. Bruce Alexander and Curt Shelton also argue that the fundamental contradictions built into psychology's history have never been resolved, and that a truly pragmatic approach, as defined by William James, can produce a 'layered' psychology that will enable psychologists to face the fearsome challenges of the twenty-first century. A History of Psychology in Western Civilization claims that contemporary psychology has overemphasized the methods of physical science and that psychology will need a broader scientific orientation alongside a scholarly focus in order to fully engage the future"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: two histories of western psychology; 2. Rationalism: Plato and the 'just' person; 3. Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius and the sufficient self; 4. Christianity: St Augustine and the incomplete soul; 5. Materialism: Thomas Hobbes and the human machine; 6. Empiricism: John Locke, David Hume, and experience as reality; 7. Evolution: Charles Darwin and homo sapiens as a work in progress; 8. Medicine: Sigmund Freud and the world of neurotics; 9. Re-imagining psychology.
650 0 $aPsychology$zEurope$xHistory.
650 0 $aPsychology$xHistory.
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / History.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aShelton, Curtis P.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/89309/cover/9780521189309.jpg