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Within the social and political upheaval of American cities in the
decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, a new scientific
discipline, psychology, strove to carve out a place for itself. In
this new history of early American psychology, Christopher D. Green
highlights the urban contexts in which much of early American
psychology developed and tells the stories of well-known early
psychologists, including William James, G. Stanley Hall, John
Dewey, and James McKeen Cattell, detailing how early psychologists
attempted to alleviate the turmoil around them. American
psychologists sought out the daunting intellectual, emotional, and
social challenges that were threatening to destabilize the nation's
burgeoning urban areas and proposed novel solutions, sometimes to
positive and sometimes to negative effect. Their contributions
helped develop our modern ideas about the mind, person, and
society. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in
the history of psychology.
Within the social and political upheaval of American cities in the
decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century, a new scientific
discipline, psychology, strove to carve out a place for itself. In
this new history of early American psychology, Christopher D. Green
highlights the urban contexts in which much of early American
psychology developed and tells the stories of well-known early
psychologists, including William James, G. Stanley Hall, John
Dewey, and James McKeen Cattell, detailing how early psychologists
attempted to alleviate the turmoil around them. American
psychologists sought out the daunting intellectual, emotional, and
social challenges that were threatening to destabilize the nation's
burgeoning urban areas and proposed novel solutions, sometimes to
positive and sometimes to negative effect. Their contributions
helped develop our modern ideas about the mind, person, and
society. This book is ideal for scholars and students interested in
the history of psychology.
The modern view of the mind is the result of thousands of years of
thought, discussion, and experimentation. This volume examines how
the foundations of this concept were laid in the ancient world,
focusing on the role of ^Ipsyche^R in the thought of the most
influential philosophers, poets, and physicians from archaic Greece
to the fall of Rome. The authors show how the various processes we
now group together under the general rubric psychology—such as
thought, emotion, desire, and will—began as relatively disparate
parts of the Greek conceptual scheme, only converging gradually
over the course of centuries into what we now call mind. By
reconstructing what the ancient Greeks and Romans understood by
terms such as ^Ipsyche^R, ^Iphrenes^R, and ^Inous^R, this survey of
the early development of psychological thought highlights the
legacies of their accounts, which can still be found embedded in
modern psychological assumptions.
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