Max Wertheimer Productive Thinking

AuthorMax Wertheimer (1880-1943), the main founder of Gestalt psychology, taught and conducted research in perception and psychology of thinking in Frankfurt am Main and in Berlin. He emigrated to the USA in 1933 to continue his research and teaching at the New School for Social Research (New York). His work "Productive Thinking" (1945) was posthumously published there as his chief work. EditorViktor Sarris is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, in particular General Psychology, and the former holder of the Max-Wertheimer Chair at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. His work focuses on perceptual as well as cognitive psychology, comparative psychophysics and the history of psychology.

• Comment on Max Wertheimer: Productive Thinking.- Productive Thinking, reprint of the first edition 1945.- Text not included in 1945 Edition added in the later Phoenix edition 1982.

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