Psychology: Theoretical-Historical Perspectives

Rating:
Summary: Psychology rediscovered
Review: Psychology: Theoretical-historical perspectives (2nd ed.) has a readable style elucidating the history of ideas in psychology. By providing a diverse range of chapter authors rather than offering readings dominated by the traditional perspective, the editors expose their readers to perspectives different than are traditionally found in textbooks.

This book is well organized and written to address wide-ranging implications for the study of how great ideas have been obscured in the traditional presentation of psychology. The book provides a balanced presentation of the burgeoning issues within the field of psychology. I am especially pleased with the careful treatment of the largely misunderstood ideas of both Wundt and James, two early founders of the discipline, whose original ideas are only now being recognized by the field of psychology.

Rating:
Summary: Psychology rediscovered
Review: Psychology: Theoretical-historical perspectives (2nd ed.) has a readable style elucidating the history of ideas in psychology. By providing a diverse range of chapter authors rather than offering readings dominated by the traditional perspective, the editors expose their readers to perspectives different than are traditionally found in textbooks.

This book is well organized and written to address wide-ranging implications for the study of how great ideas have been obscured in the traditional presentation of psychology. The book provides a balanced presentation of the burgeoning issues within the field of psychology. I am especially pleased with the careful treatment of the largely misunderstood ideas of both Wundt and James, two early founders of the discipline, whose original ideas are only now being recognized by the field of psychology.