Story of Psychology.

Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accom...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hunt, Morton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House US, 2009.
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Summary:Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectivene.
Physical Description:1 online resource (819 pages)
ISBN:9780307278074
0307278077
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.