History of Modern Psychology

C. James Goodwin is an emeritus professor at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he taught for 30 years before taking an early retirement. He is currently residing in the mountains of North Carolina and is Professor of Psychology at Western Carolina University. He earned a Bachelor's degree from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master's and PhD in experimental psychology from Florida State University, specializing in memory and cognition. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 2 (teaching) and 26 (history). His research interests on the empirical side are in the area of cognitive mapping, wayfinding, and spatial cognition, but his prime interest is in the early history of experimental psychology in the United States. He is the author of two undergraduate textbooks, one in research methods (Research in Psychology: Methods and Design) and one in the history of psychology (A History of Modern Psychology).

• CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING PSYCHOLOGY'S HISTORYCHAPTER 2 THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXTCHAPTER 3 THE SCIENTIFIC CONTEXTCHAPTER 4 WUNDT AND GERMAN PSYCHOLOGYCHAPTER 5 DARWIN'S CENTURY: EVOLUTIONARY THINKINGCHAPTER 6 AMERICAN PIONEERSCHAPTER 7 CLASSICAL ORIENTATION OF STRUCTURALISM AND FUNCTIONALISMCHAPTER 8 GESTALT PSYCHOLOGYCHAPTER 9 SITUATING BEHAVIORISM IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGYCHAPTER 10 CLINICAL APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGYCHAPTER 11 PSYCHOLOGY'S RESEARCHERS AROUND THE WORLDCHAPTER 12PSYCHOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURYREFERENCESGLOSSARYINDEXTIMELINES