A History of Psychology

Fourth Edition

John G. Benjafield

Coverage of Canada's historical contributions to the discipline ensures students are aware of this country's role in the history of psychology.
Written in an engaging, accessible style, the text draws students into the study of the history of psychology and provides them with the required background to understand theoretical systems.
A chronological organization - tracing thinkers from antiquity to modern times - highlights connections between psychological thinkers and psychologists, their works, and the social factors that influenced their ideas.
Introductory chapter discusses the importance of studying the history of the discipline, outlines some of the alternative ways one might approach it, and offers greater theoretical perspective when discussing the goals and methodology of the discipline.
An engaging art program features more than 40 photographs of key thinkers and psychologists.

A History of Psychology

Fourth Edition

John G. Benjafield

Description

A History of Psychology explores the fascinating story of psychology as a discipline while also discussing how thinkers and eras are linked to one another. Placing historical events within philosophical, social, and cultural contexts, this text invites students to develop a full understanding of how the field of psychology developed and is practiced today.

A History of Psychology

Fourth Edition

John G. Benjafield

1:Psychology and History
Studying the History of Psychology
The New History of Psychology
The New History of Science
Feminism and the Psychology of Women
Psychology as a Social Construction
Reconciling the "Old" and "New" Histories of Psychology
2:Touchstones: The Origins of Psychological Thought
Touchstones
Pythagoras (570-495 BC)
Plato (427-347 BC)
Lao-tzu (sixth century BC)
Aristotle (384-323 BC)
Averroes (1126-98) and the Re-introduction of Aristotle into European Thought
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) and the Medieval View of the Universe
3:Touchstones: From Descartes to Darwin
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
The British Empiricists: John Locke (1602-1704), George Berkeley (1685-1753), and David Hume (1711-1776)
James Mill (1773-1836) and John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
4:The Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Psychology
J.F. Herbart (1776-1841)
G.T. Fechner (1801-1887)
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1884)
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
5:Wundt and His Contemporaries
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909)
The Würzburg School
6:William James
The Principles of Psychology
7:Freud and Jung
The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
Anna Freud (1895-1982)
Karen Horney (1885-1952) and the Psychology of Women
C.G. Jung (1875-1961)
8:Structure or Function?
Edward B. Titchener (1867-1927)
Functionalism
John Dewey (1859-1952)
Robert S. Woodworth (1869-1962)
Intelligence Testing
Psychology in Business
Comparative Psychology
9:Behaviourism
Ivan P. Pavlov (1849-1936)
Vladimir M. Bekhterev (1857-1927)
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
Karl S. Lashley (1890-1958)
B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
10:Gestalt Psychology and the Social Field
Max Wertheimer (1880-1943)
Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967)
Kurt Koffka (1886-1941)
Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) and the Emergence of Social Psychology
Fritz Heider (1896-1988)
Leon Festinger (1919-1989)
Solomon Asch (1907-1996)
Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)
Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965)
11:Research Methods
Philosophy of Science
Experimental Methods
R.A. Fisher (1890-1962)
Correlational Methods
Charles Spearman (1863-1945)
Cyril Burt (1883-1971)
Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955)
Lee J. Cronbach (1916-2001) and "The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology"
Qualitative Research Methods
12:Theories of Learning
Ernest R. Hilgard (1904- 2001)
E.R. Guthrie (1886-1959)
Clark L. Hull (1884-1952)
Kenneth W. Spence (1907-1967)
Charles E. Osgood (1916-1991)
E.C. Tolman (1886-1959)
The Verbal-Learning Tradition
D.O. Hebb (1904-1985)
Albert Bandura (1925-)
13:The Developmental Point of View
G. Stanley Hall (1884-1924)
James Mark Baldwin (1861-1934)
Heinz Werner (1890-1964)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Bärbel Inhelder (1913-97)
L. S. Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Erik H. Erikson (1902-94)
Eleanor J. Gibson (1910-2002)
14:Humanistic Psychology
Existentialism
The Emergence of Humanistic Psychology
Charlotte Malachowski Buhler (1893-1974)
Rollo May (1909-1994)
Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970)
Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987)
What Happened to Humanistic Psychology?
George A. Kelly (1905-1967)
15:Cognitive Psychology
The Concept of "Information"
Noam Chomsky (1928- )
George A. Miller (1920- )
Jerome S. Bruner (1915- )
Sir Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969)
Ulric Neisser (1928-2012)
Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
16:The Future of Psychology
Does Psychology Have Paradigms?
Why Have So Many Psychologists Found the Paradigm Concept Congenial?
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and the Language of Psychology
Psychology, Modernism, and Postmodernism
The Future of the History of Psychology
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

A History of Psychology

Fourth Edition

John G. Benjafield

Reviews and Awards

"This text is the best in terms of covering the philosophical underpinnings of psychology and giving detailed and comprehensible explications of the history of psychology's theoretical systems." " - Michael Pettit, York University

"Benajfield made a judicious choice of thinkers and events to provide an overview of (mostly) the Western history of psychology. . . . He discusses many individuals and currents that previously have been ignored by other textbook-writers in the field of the history of psychology." " - Carmen Poulin, University of New Brunswick