Michael Hyland

Broschiertes Buch

A History of Psychology in Ten Questions

Beschreibung

This accessible book on the history of psychology engages with key historical movements and developments in psychology. Structured around ten key questions that engage with topics such as psychoanalysis and behaviourism, this is the ideal book for undergraduate students of psychology taking CHIPs and other history of psychology modules.

Autor

Michael Hyland was as a lecturer and later professor of health psychology at the University of Plymouth, retiring in 2018 after 44 years teaching history and theory in psychology. He is currently part-time professor of health psychology at Plymouth Marjons University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 240mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780815384878
• ISBN-10: 0815384874
• Artikelnr.: 58441533

Rezensionen

'Histories of psychology often come in three varieties: as the history of a school of psychology, as a history of the great men, or as the sequence of facts, or discoveries. But science doesn't start with facts, or schools or great scholars. Science starts with "why-questions", with "how-do-we know-questions", with "what-questions", and "is-it-true-that-questions". This is what attracts me in Hyland´s approach. He starts with the questions that were asked some time ago by scholars, and with the questions students will ask when they want to know how puzzles and problems of being human became the scientific problems of psychology.'

René van Hezewijk, Emeritus Professor of Psychology of the Open University of the

Netherlands

'A History of Psychology in Ten Questions is an inspired way of covering crucial questions in the history of the discipline. Students often come away from a foundational history course with a confusing hodge-podge of facts and names, but Michael Hyland instead engages the reader by examining the key questions that constitute this fascinating journey from philosophy to science. Without eschewing psychology's major challenges, this volume will enlighten as well as delight those trying to understand the sprawling field that the discipline has become.'

Henderikus Stam, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, USA

'Having taught history and systems of psychology for many years, I can say that this is the best book on the subject that I have ever read. Besides being eye-opening and informative, it is reader friendly and exceptionally entertaining, including some very clever cartoons illustrating points made in the text. Were I to once again to teach a course on the history of psychology and the philosophy of science, this is certainly the textbook I would choose.'

Irving Kirsch, PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA