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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, ... and all the various schools of today." Today it can be read in its historical context.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
