A History of Psychology - Hardcover

Benjafield, John G.

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ISBN 10: 0195419308 ISBN 13: 9780195419306

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

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A History of Psychology presents the ideas of significant individuals in psychology and explains the role of cultural context in shaping the ideas that become dominant in a society at a particular time. The book outlines the contributions of well over a hundred thinkers and psychologists including Pythagoras, Lao-tzu, Aristotle, Abraham Maslow, B.F. Skinner, and Herbert Simon.

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About the Author:

John Benjafield is in the Department of Psychology, Brock University.

Review:

"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

"Benjafield 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

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