1st Edition
A Critical Approach to Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology Soul, Self, and Science
Section I: Origins of Psychology Preface: A Time of Reckoning for Psychology’s Past, Present, and Future 1. An Introduction (Egyptian Philosophers and Confucius on Human Consciousness and Spiritualism); Section II: The Soul as a Core Construct in Philosophy 2. Plato on the Soul and Mental Health 3. Aristotle on Morality and the “Good Life” 4. The Stoics on Pleasure and the “Good Life” 5. Ibn Sina on Affective Disorders 6. Albertus Magnus on Motivation and Intellect 7. Thomas Aquinas on Virtues 8. Bacon on Enquiries via Experimentation 9. Descartes on the “Mind-Body Problem” 10. Leibniz on Intellect and Will 11. Locke on the “Tabula Rasa” 12. Hume on the Association of Ideas; Section III: From Philosophy to Science, the Move from Soul to Self 13. Wundt on Psychology as a Science 14. Brentano on the Limits of Experimentation 15. William James on Varieties of Empiricism 16. Dewey on Progression beyond Ethnocentrism 17. Du Bois on Race Psychology and Cultural Pluralism 18. Calkins on Consciousness and the Scientific Method 19. Cooley and Mead on the Social Self and the Birth of Social Psychology 20. Freud on Psychoanalytic Theory and the Primacy of the Unconscious 21. Jung on Analytical Psychology and the “Collective Unconscious” 22. Adler on Social and Biological Influences on Personality Development 23. Horney on Feminine Psychology as a Response to Freud’s “Masculine Psychology”; Section IV: Psychology as a Science: The Intersection of Society, Science, and the Self 24. Watson on Classical Conditioning and Controversy over the “Little Albert” Study 25. Skinner on Operant Conditioning and Controversy over the “Skinner Box” 26. Hebb on Cell Assemblies and Controversy over Sensory Deprivation 27. Bandura on Social Learning and Controversy over Interpretation of Findings from the “Bobo Doll” Study 28. Maslow on the “Hierarchy of Needs” and Controversy over Evidence for Fulfilling the Self-Actualisation Motive 29. Erikson on Identity and Controversy over Application of the “Eight Stages of Man” to Women 30. Tajfel on Social Identity and Controversy over External Validity of Results from the “Klee-Kandinsky” Study 31. Bowlby and Ainsworth on Attachment Styles and Controversy over Interpretation of Results from “Strange Situation” Studies 32. Bem on “Sex-Role Orientation” and Controversy over the Classification and Meaning of Androgyny 33. Mischel on “If-Then Situations” and Controversy over Downplaying the Magnitude of Trait-Behavior Covariance 34. Damasio on Core Consciousness and Controversy over Assumptions about “Descartes’s Error”' Section V: Future Directions regarding the Self in Culture 35. From Triandis and Cultural Syndromes to Crenshaw and Intersectionality Postscript: Looking Back (or Not) and Moving Forward with a Reckoning for Psychology
Biography
Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Brunel University London, UK.
