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Contemporary Theories and Systems in Psychology [electronic resource] / by Benjamin B. Wolman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1981Edition: 1st ed. 1981Description: 652 p. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781468438000
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 150 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1-990
Online resources:
Contents:
I Conditioning, Behaviorism, and Purposivism -- 1 The Great Beginnings -- 2 Conditioned Reflexes -- 3 Behaviorism and Reductionism -- 4 Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory -- 5 Hormic and Holistic Theories -- II Psychoanalysis and Related Systems -- 6 Psychoanalysis -- 7 Individual and Analytic Psychologies -- 8 New Theories in Psychoanalysis -- 9 Away From Freud: The Sociological School -- III Understanding, Gestalt, and Field Psychologies -- 10 Understanding Psychology -- 11 Personalistic Psychology -- 12 Gestalt Psychology -- 13 Field Theory -- 14 Humanistic Psychology -- IV Psychology and the Scientific Method -- 15 The Scientific Method -- 16 Selected Issues -- Author Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: Twenty years is a long time in the life of a science. While the historical roots of psychology have not changed since the first edition of this book, some of the offshoots of the various theories and systems discussed have been crit­ ically reexamined and have undergone far-reaching modifications. New and bold research has led to a broadening of perspectives, and recent devel­ opments in several areas required a considerable amount of rewriting. I have been fortunate in the last fifteen years to have worked with about 2,000 psychologists and other behavioral scientists who contributed to several collected volumes I have edited. As the editor-in-chief of the In­ ternational Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurol­ ogy, I have had the privilege of reading, scrutinizing, and editing the work of 1,500 experts in psychology and related disciplines. In addition, I have written several books and monographs and over one hundred scientific papers. Armed with all that experience, I have carefully examined the pages of the first edition. Chapter 8 required substantial rewriting and several new sections have been added to other chapters: "Current Soviet Psychol­ ogy" (Chapter 2, Section 7); "New Ideas on Purposivism" (Chapter 5, Sec­ tion 4); "Recent Developments in the Sociological School of Psychoanalysis" (Chapter 9, Section 4); and "Present Status of Gestalt Psychology" (Chapter 12, Section 4). Chapter 15 was omitted, and two new chapters were added: Chapter 14 ("Humanistic Psychology") and Chapter 16 ("Selected Research Areas").
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I Conditioning, Behaviorism, and Purposivism -- 1 The Great Beginnings -- 2 Conditioned Reflexes -- 3 Behaviorism and Reductionism -- 4 Neo-Behaviorism and Learning Theory -- 5 Hormic and Holistic Theories -- II Psychoanalysis and Related Systems -- 6 Psychoanalysis -- 7 Individual and Analytic Psychologies -- 8 New Theories in Psychoanalysis -- 9 Away From Freud: The Sociological School -- III Understanding, Gestalt, and Field Psychologies -- 10 Understanding Psychology -- 11 Personalistic Psychology -- 12 Gestalt Psychology -- 13 Field Theory -- 14 Humanistic Psychology -- IV Psychology and the Scientific Method -- 15 The Scientific Method -- 16 Selected Issues -- Author Index.

Twenty years is a long time in the life of a science. While the historical roots of psychology have not changed since the first edition of this book, some of the offshoots of the various theories and systems discussed have been crit­ ically reexamined and have undergone far-reaching modifications. New and bold research has led to a broadening of perspectives, and recent devel­ opments in several areas required a considerable amount of rewriting. I have been fortunate in the last fifteen years to have worked with about 2,000 psychologists and other behavioral scientists who contributed to several collected volumes I have edited. As the editor-in-chief of the In­ ternational Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Neurol­ ogy, I have had the privilege of reading, scrutinizing, and editing the work of 1,500 experts in psychology and related disciplines. In addition, I have written several books and monographs and over one hundred scientific papers. Armed with all that experience, I have carefully examined the pages of the first edition. Chapter 8 required substantial rewriting and several new sections have been added to other chapters: "Current Soviet Psychol­ ogy" (Chapter 2, Section 7); "New Ideas on Purposivism" (Chapter 5, Sec­ tion 4); "Recent Developments in the Sociological School of Psychoanalysis" (Chapter 9, Section 4); and "Present Status of Gestalt Psychology" (Chapter 12, Section 4). Chapter 15 was omitted, and two new chapters were added: Chapter 14 ("Humanistic Psychology") and Chapter 16 ("Selected Research Areas").

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