The great psychologists : a history of psychological thought / Robert I. Watson, Sr., Rand B. Evans.

Contents

Chapter 1: History and historical progress

Part one: The ancient world
chapter 2: Thales to Hippocrates: before psychology
chapter 3: Plato: before psychology
chapter 4: Aristotle: The founding of philosophical psychology
chapter 5: Theophrastus and Galen: The Hellenistic and Roman periods

Part two: The dark and middle ages
chapter 6: plotinus and Augustine : The Patrstic period
chapter 7: Aquinas: The middle ages, Rationalism, and faith

Part three: The renaissance and the early modern period
chapter 8: Descartes: The Renaissance and the beginning of the modern period
chapter 9: Hobbes to hume: British empiricism
chapter 10: Associationism and mechanism: two wings of empiricism
chapter 11: The Scottish Realists and the German Idealists: Two reactions to Hume's skepticism
chapter 12: Helmholtz: The physiological substrate
chapter 13: Fechner: Psychophysics

Part four: The modern period
chapter 14: Wilhelm wundt: Introspection and experiement
chapter 15: Brentano and Ebbinghaus: altternatives to Wundtian Orthodoxy
chapter 16: Galton and spencer: Developmentalism, Quantitativism and individual differences
chapter 17: American Psychology: Before William James
chapter 18: The founding of scientific psychology in United States
chapter 19: The beginning of experimental psychology in America
chapter 20: Angell and American Functionalism
chapter 21: Utility in psychology: the rise of applied psychology
chapter 22: John B. Watson and Behaviorism
chapter 23: Gestalt psychology
chapter 24: Freud and psychoanalysis
chapter 25: Adler, Jung and the Third generation psychologists
chapter 26: European psychologies of the Twentieth century
chapter 27: psychology in the U.S since world war II

Includes bibliographical references and index.