Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An overview of the theories and history of psychology / R.W. Rieber and Kurt Salzinger
  • Part I. Psychology becomes a science : European and nineteenth century influences
  • Vicissitudes of Fechnerian psychophysics in America / Helmut E. Adler
  • Wilhelm Wundt and early American psychology : a clash of cultures / Arthur L. Blumenthal
  • Francis Galton and American psychology / Solomon Diamond
  • William James and Gordon Allport : parallels in their maturing conceptions of self and personality / Richard P. High and William R. Woodward
  • Psychology and the history of the self : from substance to function / John M. Broughton
  • Part II. Socioeconomic and political factors in the development of psychology
  • The Americanization of psychology before William James / R.W. Rieber
  • Politics and American psychology / David Bakan
  • Darwin on psychology and its relation to evolutionary thought / Howard E. Gruber
  • Part III. Psychological systems : past, present, and future
  • The influence of Gestalt psychology in America / Mary Henle
  • The experimental analysis of operant behavior : a history / B.F. Skinner
  • The historical antecedents of contemporary behaviorism / Willard F. Day, Jr.
  • The assimilation of psychoanalysis in America / Maurice Green and R.W. Rieber
  • In tribute to Piaget : a look at his scientific impact in the United States / Gilbert Voyat
  • Genetic epistemology and developmental psychology / Barbel Inhelder
  • Some recent research and its link with a new theory of groupings and conservations based on commutability / Jean Piaget
  • Epilogue
  • Sitzfleisch, the Zeitgeist, and the Hindsightgeist / Kurt Salzinger.