Description
Global, interdisciplinary, and engaging, this textbook integrates materials from philosophical and biological origins to the historical development of psychology. Its extensive coverage of women, minorities, and psychologists around the world emphasizes psychology as a global phenomenon while looking at both local and worldwide issues. This perspective highlights the relationship between psychology and the environmental context in which the discipline developed. In tracing psychology from its origins in early civilizations, ancient philosophy, and religions to modern science, technology, and applications, this book integrates overarching psychological principles and ideas that have shaped the global history of psychology, keeping an eye toward the future of psychology. Updated and revised throughout, this new edition also includes a new chapter on clinical psychology.
Table of Contents
Section I: The Present: Globalization, Psychology, and History
1. Contemporary Psychology: Global Forces
2. Psychology: The American Approach
3. Nature of History and Methods of Study
Section II: Early Philosophical and Biological Foundations of Scientific Psychology
4. Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
5. Biological Foundations of Psychology
6. Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Hypnosis
7. Associationism
Section III: Schools of Psychology
8. Voluntarism and Structuralism
9. Functionalism
10. Behaviorism
11. Gestalt Psychology
12. Psychoanalysis
13. Beyond Psychoanalysis: Continuing Developments in Psychotherapy
Section IV: Diversity in Psychology
14. Women in the History of Psychology
15. Racial Diversity in American Psychology
16. Psychology in Russia
17. Psychology in China
18. Indigenous Psychologies: Latin America, South Africa, and India-Asia
Section V: Epilogue
19. Clinical Psychology
