Current Systems in Psychology

Rating:
Summary: Excellent for U-grads AND Graduate students
Review: Noel Smith does an excellent job in catagorizing the various dsciplines of psychology into various centricities. The text begins with a fairly comprehensive historical overview of how psychology has become so disjointed in modern times. Each system is then discussed, with summaries at the end of each chapter, as well as a critiqued and strengths section. The summary chapter at the end of the text really help the reader pull together each of the 10 systems highlighted throughout the text. For the brave of heart, Prof. Smith includes an appendix that lists postulates, protopostulates, and metapostulates of each of the systems. This appendix provides much fodder for discussion to those aligned and loyal to a particular theory. I recommend this text to any serious student of the profession.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent for U-grads AND Graduate students
Review: Noel Smith does an excellent job in catagorizing the various dsciplines of psychology into various centricities. The text begins with a fairly comprehensive historical overview of how psychology has become so disjointed in modern times. Each system is then discussed, with summaries at the end of each chapter, as well as a critiqued and strengths section. The summary chapter at the end of the text really help the reader pull together each of the 10 systems highlighted throughout the text. For the brave of heart, Prof. Smith includes an appendix that lists postulates, protopostulates, and metapostulates of each of the systems. This appendix provides much fodder for discussion to those aligned and loyal to a particular theory. I recommend this text to any serious student of the profession.