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Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology

The Formation of Modern Psychology Volume 2

Csaba Pléh

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English
Routledge
18 December 2023
Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology offers readers a multicentric perspective on the history of social science and compares the developments in psychology in relation to the developments made in the other social and natural sciences.

This is the second volume about the formation of modern psychology and provides a comprehensive look into the origins and developments of modern psychology. With a large geographical coverage, European developments are put into their own context in their own time. In doing this, the book explores different early schools, from social reductionists like Durkheim, Charles Blondel, and Maurice Halbwachs, to the social debates about relativism in Lévy-Bruhl, early Piaget, the beginnings of ethology, and the semiotic approach of Karl Bühler. These thinkers are placed in relation to the recent upsurge of different social and biological theories of the mind. Throughout, the author develops a detailed presentation of the thematic development of psychology and links the history of psychology to an outline of contemporary psychology.

This is an invaluable introductory text for undergraduate students of the history of psychology and will also appeal to postgraduates, academics, and anyone interested in psychology or the history of science. It will also be of interest to graduate students of psychology, biology, sociology, and anthropology with a theoretical interest in the history of the field.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   1.240kg
ISBN:   9781032625799
ISBN 10:   1032625791
Series:   The Formation of Modern Psychology
Pages:   564
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
PART I Disciplinary developments and eclectics 1. Schools of depth psychology: the divisions of psychoanalysis and neo-Freudism 2. Individuals and types: the victorious march of personality psychology and measurement 3. Motivation and dynamic psychologies 4. The victorious march of developmental theories 5. Social theories of the mind 6. The formation of modern social psychology 7. Soviet/Russian psychology PART II On the road toward contemporary psychology 8. Psychology as learning theory: neobehaviorism 9. The transformations of experimental psychology: birth and destiny of cognitive psychology 10. Roads toward a new psychology at the millennium 11. The future of psychology

Csaba Pléh is a Hungarian psychologist and linguist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and of the Academia Europeae, and a visiting researcher at the Central European University, Department of Cognitive Science, Hungary. His empirical research is mainly concentrated on the cross-linguistic study of language processing and language development and issues of developmental language disorders.

Reviews for Diversification and Professionalization in Psychology: The Formation of Modern Psychology Volume 2

"""Csaba Pléh’s books are an extremely impressive and unusually wide-ranging study of the history of psychology. It discusses the birth and subsequent development of psychology embedded in the cultural history and the history of ideas, where history of philosophy is often intertwined with the history of experimentation and sometimes even the history of other scientific disciplines. Another ground-breaking feature of the book is the width of the ground it covers, not only in terms of different approaches and historical details, but also geographical regions, devoting significant discussions to psychological schools and approaches that most other histories of psychology treat as mere footnotes to the dominantly Anglo-American tradition. Pléh’s books should be the go-to volumes on the history of psychology not just for psychologists and philosophers but for anyone who is interested in the intellectual developments of the 19th and 20th centuries"". Bence Nanay, Professor of Philosophy and BOF Research Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium."


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