4th Edition
Putting Psychology in its Place Critical Historical Perspectives
Part One Origins and theories 1
1 Introduction: Psychology and history
2 Psychology 1600-1850: Continuity and discontinuity
3 Founding Psychology: Evolution, experimentation, and being scientific
4 William James and the origins of modern Psychology
5 Behaviourism
6 Gestalt Psychology
7 Cognitive Psychology
Part Two Some topics
8 Psychology and the brain
9 Looking at perception
10 Memory: some points to remember
11 Emotion: the problem or the whole point?
12 Personality: Psychology and who you are
13 Social Psychology
14 Applied Psychology
Part Three Psychology’s subjects
15 Psychology, madness and the meanings of psychological distress
16 Psychological uses of animals
17 Psychology and the child
18 Psychology and gender
Part Four Two general issues
19 Psychometrics and the problem of measurement
20 Psychology and language
Part Five Four cultural entanglements
21 Funding and institutional factors
22 Psychology meets religion
23 Psychology and ‘race’
24 Psychology and war
Part Six Closure – or not?
25 Closure - or not?
Appendix
The elephants outside the room
List of illustrations
Preface to fourth edition
Preface to third edition
Preface to second edition
Preface
Name index
Subject index
Biography
Graham Richards retired from his posts as Director of the British Psychological Society’s History of Psychology Centre and Professor of History of Psychology at Staffordshire University in 2006. His previous publications include Human Evolution: An Introduction for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed., 2020), Psychology: The Key Concepts (2008), ‘Race’, Racism and Psychology: Towards a Reflexive History (2nd ed., 2011), On Psychological Language (1989) and Creationism: Design Errors and Cross-Purposes (2014).
Paul Stenner is a Professor of Social Psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Open University, UK. He is Past President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology and a Fellow of the Academy for Social Science and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. His recent books include Liminality and Experience: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Psychosocial (2017), Doing Q Methodological Research: Theory, Method and Interpretation (2012, with S. Watts) and Psychology without Foundations: History, Philosophy and Psychosocial Theory (2009, with S. Brown).
