History of Psychology

David Hothersall is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the Ohio State University. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of psychology at Ohio State since 1971 and at Denison, Ohio Wesleyan, Meredith, and York University as well. His aim is to show students that psychology's history is interesting, relevant, and at times even exciting. Hothersall has received a number of Distinguished Teaching Awards, including on two occasions Ohio State's university-wide Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Benjamin J. Lovett is Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he teaches the history of psychology as well as courses in the school psychology program. Much of his research is on issues related to educational testing and clinical assessment, but his personal passion is the history of psychology. His first book, Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, was published by the American Psychological Association in 2015. He is an active consulting psychologist and works with schools and testing agencies on assessment and disability issues.

Preface; 1. Approaching the history of psychology: recurrent questions in psychology; 2. Scientific and philosophical foundations of psychology; 3. Early investigations of the central nervous system and the beginnings of neuroscience; 4. Wilhelm Wundt and the founding of psychology; 5. Wundt's students in the United States: Edward Titchener and Hugo Münsterberg; 6. German psychologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 7. Gestalt psychology in Germany and the United States; 8. The evolutionary perspective in Britain: Charles Darwin and Francis Galton; 9. Early Psychology in the United States: James McKeen Cattell, William James, Granville Stanley Hall, and Mary Whiton Calkins; 10. Functionalism at the University of Chicago and Columbia University; 11. Psychoanalysis and the development of clinical specialties; 12. Historical uses and abuses of intelligence testing; 13. The research of Ivan Pavlov and the behaviorism of John B. Watson; 14. Three neo-behaviorist psychologists: Edward Tolman, Clark Hull, and B. F. Skinner; 15. The cognitive revolution and beyond; Epilogue; Glossary; References; Name Index; Subject index.