A Brief History of Modern Psychology av Ludy T. Jr. (Texas A&M University) Benjamin

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A concise and accessible survey of the significant figures, concepts, and schools of thought that have shaped modern psychologyA Brief History of Modern Psychology is a clear and engaging account of scientific psychology¿s origins, evolution, and related professional practice. With a reader-friendly narrative style, author Ludy Benjamin provides the historical and disciplinary context needed to appreciate the richness and complexity of contemporary psychology. Concise chapters apply biographical and historical context to individual psychologists while exploring pre-scientific psychology, physiology and psychophysics, early schools of German and American psychology, applied psychology, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, and more. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect current scholarship in the field, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Modern Psychology contains new examinations of the connections between phrenology and modern neuroscience, the dangers and proli