A Century of Psychology (Psychology Revivals): Progress, paradigms and prospects for the new millennium

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Routledge, 2013 M10 31 - 354 páginas

Psychology has influence in almost every walk of life. Originally published in 1997, A Century of Psychology is a review of where the discipline came from, where it had reached and where the editors anticipated it may go.

Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh and Patrick McGinley assembled an internationally recognised team of mainly European experts from the major applications and research areas of psychology. They begin with a critical review of methodology and its limitations and plot the course of gender and developmental psychology. They go on to include discussion of learning, intellectual disability, clinical psychology and the emergence of psychotherapy, educational psychology, organizational psychology, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and many other topics, in particular community psychology, perception and alternative medicine.

Enlightening, reflective and sometimes provocative, A Century of Psychology is required reading for anyone involved in psychology as a practitioner, researcher or teacher. It is also a lively introduction for those new to the discipline.

 

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predecessors of twentyfirstcentury psychology?
1
feminists looking at psychologists looking at women
16
old themes and new directions
36
retrospect and prospect
54
a psychological assessment
69
roots doubts and hopes
85
7 The influence of psychology on psychotherapy during the twentieth century
107
a century of challenge for educational psychology
123
alternative medicine postmodernism and relativism
171
progress deficiencies and promise
192
13 The coming of age of the psychology of thinking and reasoning
207
14 The history of the concept of goals
224
15 Visual perception at the edge of the century
241
preattentive mechanisms in the generation of anxiety
252
the good the bad and the bizarre
271
18 A theory of emotion and its brain mechanisms
296

a new Gestalt psychology?
139
psychological prevention of psychic and somatic problems disorders and illnesses
156

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Patrick McGinley, Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh

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