Mechanical Man

Kerry W. Buckley , recieved his Ph.D. in American Social and Intellectual History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he now heads the office of Humanities Programs in the Division of Continuing Education . He has taught the history of psychology at Wellsey College and has published articles on Watson and behaviorism in the Journal of History of the Behavioral Sciences and The Social Science Encylopedia { London }.

• 1. Background for Behaviorism: Growing Up in the New South, 1878 to 1900 2. The "New Psychology": The Beginnings of a Profession, 1879 to 1900 3. Mr. Rockefeller's University: 1900 to 1908 4. The Making of a Psychologist: 1908 to 1913 5. Crying in the Wilderness: The Advent of Behaviorism, 1913 to 1917 6. Psychological Warfare 7. Conditioned Emotional Reactions: Fear, Rage, and Love in Baltimore 8. The Selling of a Psychologist 9. Designing Behavior 10. Epilogue

A biography of John B. Watson worth reading as scholarship.....No other treatment interweaves so well the complexities of people and the environment, of science and society, of times and culture. The book exemplifies the best of the 'new' history of psychology....Uniformly excellent. - Philosophical Psychology