1st Edition

The History of Psychology

By W. B. Pillsbury Copyright 1929
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1929, the original blurb reads: “This is the first popular history of psychology to be written, and gives the general reader an accurate account of all the more important events in the development of psychological thinking, from Plato and Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen, to Descartes and Spinoza, and the beginnings of modern psychology, right down to Freud, Adler, and Watson,... Read more

Preface.  1. Early and Classical Greek Psychology  2. Later Greek and Medieval Psychology  3. The Beginnings of Modern Psychology  4. English Psychology and Leibniz’s Reaction Against It, Hobbes, Locke and Leibniz  5. English Empiricism of the Eighteenth Century, Berkeley, Hume, and Hartley  6. German Psychology in the Eighteenth Century, Wolff, Kant, and Tetens  7. The Scotch and Beginnings of the Modern English Schools  8. German Psychology of the Early Nineteenth Century, Fries, Herbart, Beneke, and Lotze  9. German Physiology and Experimental Psychology, Johannes Müller  10. The Founding of Experimental Psychology, Fechner and Wundt  11. Later English Psychology, Spencer, Bain, Darwin, Galton  12. Later German Psychology, Brentano, G. E. Müller, Ebbinghaus, Stumpf, Lipps, Külpe  13. French Psychology of the Nineteenth Century and After  14. Psychology in America  15. The Development of Abnormal Psychology  16. Modern Schools of Psychology, Structuralism and Functionalism  17. Animal Psychology and Behaviorism  18. Hormic Psychology, The Gestalt School, and Intuitionism.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1872–1960) was one of the first generation of psychologists trained in America and a cooperating editor of The American Journal of Psychology for sixty-four years.