A Conceptual History of Psychology

John D. Greenwood is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he currently serves in the PhD Programs in Philosophy and Psychology. He is the author of four books, What Happened to the Social In American Social Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Realism, Identity and Emotion (1994), Relations and Representations (1991) and Explanation and Experiment in Social Psychological Science (1989), three edited volumes and over fifty articles. His main research interests are in the history and philosophy of social and psychological science.

• Preface; 1. History, science, and psychology; 2. Ancient Greek science and psychology; 3. Rome and the medieval period; 4. The scientific revolution; 5. The Newtonian psychologists; 6. Physiology and psychology; 7. Theories of evolution; 8. Psychology in Germany; 9. Psychology in America: the early years; 10. Functionalism, behaviorism, and mental testing; 11. Neobehaviorism, radical behaviorism, and problems of behaviorism; 12. The cognitive revolution; 13. Abnormal and clinical psychology; Epilogue: the past and future of scientific psychology.

'A Conceptual History of Psychology: Exploring the Tangled Web brings intellectual clarity to the fascinating and complex evolution of the discipline known as psychology.' David Leary, University of Richmond