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Hermann Lotze
As a philosopher, psychologist, and physician, the German thinker Hermann Lotze (1817–81) defies classification. Working in the mid-nineteenth-century era of programmatic realism, …
Changing the Rules
The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criteria - which are generally …
Constructing Scientific Psychology
The first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. This book sets Lashley’s research at the heart of two controversies …
Metaphors in the History of Psychology
When psychologists speak of human memory as a matter of ‘retrieving’ earlier ‘input’ from ‘storage’, they are basing their discussion of memory upon a series of metaphors drawn …
Inventing our Selves
Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice …
Psychologists on the March
Psychologists on the March argues that the Second World War had a profound impact on the modern psychological profession in America. Before the war, psychology was viewed largely …
Rebels within the Ranks
During the 1930s, psychologists Gordon Allport, Gardner Murphy, and Lois Barclay Murphy emerged from the fields of social and personality psychology to challenge the …
The Professionalization of Psychology in Nazi Germany
It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under national Socialism. Yet in The …
Measuring Minds
This book explores the origins of the American intelligence testing movement. It follows the life and work of Henry Herbert Goddard, America’s first intelligence tester and author …
Gestalt Psychology in German Culture, 1890–1967
This is the first full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology - an attempt to advance holistic thought within natural science. Holistic thought is often portrayed as a …