Richard T. G. Walsh is Professor of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Thomas Teo is a Professor of Psychology at York University, Toronto. Dr Angelina Baydala is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology and a registered clinical psychologist in private practice in Edmonton, Alberta.

• 1. Introducing the history and philosophy of psychology; 2. Ancient and premodern psychological thought; 3. Early modern psychological thought; 4. The philosophical and scientific climate in the nineteenth century; 5. Early natural-science psychology; 6. Natural-science psychology between the world wars; 7. Natural-science psychology after World War II; 8. Applied and professional psychology; 9. Human-science psychologies: psychoanalysis; 10. Human-science psychologies: hermeneutic to transpersonal; 11. Constructing psychological research; 12. Critical philosophical and historical reflections.

'A much-needed text whose extraordinary depth and breadth of perspective skilfully invites thought on the part of the reader.' Kurt Danziger, Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada