Timeline of Philosophy and Psychology in the Context of General History
SECTION I
The Present: Globalization, Psychology, and History
1 Contemporary Psychology: Global Forces
Coming Together: The Evolution of Globalization
The Growth of Psychology Around the Globe
Global Psychological Associations
Postmodernism and the Multicultural Movement
Development Initiatives and Indigenization
Systematic Deterrents to the Development of Psychology in the Developing World
Linking the Social and the Economic
Toward a Global Psychology Paradigm
History of Psychology: A Framework
2 Psychology: The American Approach
Local–Global Dynamics in American Psychology
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Three Issues in American Psychology
Definition and a New Vision for Psychology
3 Nature of History and Methods of Study
Approaches to the History of Psychology
Methods of Study in Psychology
SECTION II
Early Philosophical and Biological Foundations of Scientific Psychology
4 Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
The Dawn of Civilization: Four River Valley Civilizations
Early Explanatory Systems: Animism and Spirits
Early Philosophies and Religions
Indian Religions: Hinduism and Buddhism
Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Democritus
Islamic Science and Philosophy
Scholasticism: Thomas Aquinas and William of Occam
The Renaissance: The Place and the People
The Modern Period: René Descartes
5 Biological Foundations of Psychology
Marie-Jean Pierre Flourens (1794–1867)
Electrical Stimulation of the Brain
The Golgi–Ramón y Cajal Controversy
6 Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Hypnosis
Conscious and Unconscious Minds
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815)
Marquis de Puysegur (1751–1825)
The Parisian School of Hypnosis
Laboratory Studies of Hypnosis
The State and Non-State Model of Hypnosis
Dissociation Theories of Hypnosis
Hypnotic Phenomena: Age Regression
Hypnosis and Clinical Psychology, Efficacy Studies, and Prevention
Counterpoint: Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Associationism: Later Developments
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909)
SECTION III
Schools of Psychology
8 Voluntarism and Structuralism
Psychophysical Laws and Consciousness
Establishment of Psychology as an Independent Science
Voluntarism: The Subject Matter and Method of Study
The Composition of Consciousness
Völkerpsychologie or Cultural Psychology
Franz Brentano (1838–1917) and Act Psychology
Oswald Külpe (1862–1915) and Imageless Thought
Edward Bradford Titchener (1867–1927) and Structuralism
The Origins of the Psychological Experiment
Setting the Stage for Functionalism
Charles Darwin: Evolution Is Adaptive and Functional
Sir Francis Galton: To Quantify Is to Know
Galton and Psychology: Individual Differences
Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism
William James: Psychologist, Philosopher, and Pragmatist
Granville Stanley Hall: Scientific and Professional Psychology
Hall as an Established Psychologist
Hall and Scientific/Applied Psychology
John Dewey: A Vermonter and Functionalist
James Rowland Angell: Popularizing Functionalism
Harvey A. Carr: A Mature Functionalism
Functionalism at Columbia University
James McKeen Cattell: A Quantifiable and Functional Psychology
Edward Lee Thorndike: Animal Behavior and Connectionism
Robert Sessions Woodworth: Author and Educator
The Legacy of Functionalism and Contemporary Issues
Hugo Münsterberg: Popularizing Applied Psychology
Lightner Witmer: The Beginnings of Clinical Psychology
Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R)
Mind, Motion, and Mapping: The Beginning
John Broadus Watson (1878–1958)
Emotions, Thinking, and Instinct
Mass Action and Equipotentiality
Pavlovian or Classical Conditioning
Applied Pavlovian Conditioning
Hypothetico-Deductive Theory of Behavior
Drive Reduction Theory of Learning
Edward Chace Tolman (1886–1959)
Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907–1983)
Burrhus Fredric Skinner (1904–1990)
Introduction: The Figure and the Ground
Laying the Groundwork for Revolution
Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization
From Structuralism to Behaviorism
The Child Welfare Research Station
Setting the Stage: Antecedent Influences on Psychoanalysis
The History of Attitudes/Ideas Concerning Psychopathology
The Development of Psychoanalysis
Breuer and the Case of Anna O., Studies on Hysteria
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Building a Legacy: Freud and His “Naughty Boys”
Theory of Personality Development
Following in Freud’s Footsteps
Anna Freud: Child Psychoanalysis
13 Beyond Psychoanalysis: Continuing Developments in Psychotherapy
Alternatives to Classical Psychoanalysis and Object Relations
A Third Force in Psychology: Humanistic Psychology
SECTION IV
Diversity in Psychology
14 Women in the History of Psychology
Introduction: Women in Psychology
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887)
Breaking the Educational Barrier
Rosser’s Stages of Women’s Participation in Science
Women in Developmental Psychology
Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
Elizabeth Loftus: Eyewitness Memory
15 Ethnic Diversity in American Psychology
Some Factors in the Experience of African Americans in Psychology
The Association of Black Psychologists
Asian-American Contributions to Psychology
The Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA)
Hispanic American Contributions
Native Americans and American Psychology
An Overview of Russian History (1860–Present)
The Pre-Revolutionary Period (1860–1917)
The Post-Soviet Period (1991–Beyond)
Pre-Revolutionary Psychology (1860–1917)
Revolution: The Development of Soviet Psychology (1917–1991)
Soviet Repression and Reactology
Dialectical Materialism, Pedology, and Psychotechnics
Post-Soviet Psychology: Picking Up the Pieces After Perestroika
Philosophical Roots of Chinese Psychology
East Meets West: Early European Influence
Psychology in China as an Experimental Science
Chinese Psychology Faces Forward: Current Challenges and Opportunities
18 Indigenous Psychologies: Latin America, South Africa, and India-Asia
Precursors and Origin of Clinical Psychology
A Profession Needs the Backing of a Reputable Organization
A Defining Role for Clinical Psychologists: Testing and Assessment
From Mental Asylums to Community Mental Health Centers
World War II: Clinical Psychology Gains Clout