Psychology is a relatively recent and rapidly developing discipline. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place over the last decade. Graham Richards gives historical perspective to key issues in contemporary psychology such as Psychology and Women and Psychology and Race as well as more traditional topics like behaviourism and Gestalt psychology.Putting Psychology in its Place is aimed specially at undergraduate students but will also appeal to postgraduates and academics interested in gaining a broad based,issue led historical perspective to their discipline.
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'I am impressed by this manuscript... Graham Richards has a critical appreciation of a wide range of the most recent historical studies in psychology, and puts this knowledge to effective use.' - Alex Dolby, Centre for History and Cultural Studies of Science, University of Kent
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Psychology is a relatively recent and rapidly developing discipline. Perhaps the most significant changes have taken place over the last decade. Graham Richards gives historical perspective to key issues in contemporary psychology such as Psychology and Women and Psychology and Race as well as more traditional topics like behaviourism and Gestalt psychology.Putting Psychology in its Place is aimed specially at undergraduate students but will also appeal to postgraduates and academics interested in gaining a broad based,issue led historical perspective to their discipline.
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By albeth
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This is an original and highly illuminating critical history of Psychology. I have not come across anything as readable.The author combines scholarship with a knack for raising interesting, awkward questions that are often glossed over in more conventional presentations of the field. The book contains both general material on theoretical and philosophical issue as well as dealing with a variety of specific topics of psychological investigation. Very useful references and sources for further study are provided. This should be required reading for all students of psychology.
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By David Jones
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The first edition of this book was ground breaking, showing how an understanding of history can be used to demonstrate the way in which the disipline of psychology is shaped by the social, political and intellectual contexts in which it has developed. This second edition expands on the original with additional chapters covering topics such as language, applied psychology, and religion. In addition, there is a new, more logical organisation; suggestions for further reading are updated; and there is a very useful glossary. The first edition was required reading for all psychologists, and this one is even more so. The one let down is that the new "student friendly" visual design (imposed, no doubt, by the publisher) seems to make the book look less distinguished than it is somehow.
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